Real Estate in the Greater Lafayette Indiana Area

Homes and real estate in Lafayette-West Lafayette Indiana reflects the character and culture of this ever evolving historic community.

Since 1990 Lafayette-West Lafayette Indiana was selected as one of the best communities to live in.

Why was that?

Living in Lafayette-West Lafayette locates you conveniently in the center of culture and recreation. In addition to numerous locally available choices the community is only 50 minutes from Indianapolis, ninety minutes from Lake Michigan, two hours from Chicago, and within an hour of several state parks and inland lakes.

Lafayette-West Lafayette is a steadily growing community with a current 187,749 population spanning a broad spectrum of socio-economic sectors. Consisting of Lafayette (link) and West Lafayette (link) divided by the Wabash River it is the home to higher education, corporate headquarters, and industry.

  • Purdue University

  • Ivy Technological Institute.

  • Purdue Technology Research Park

  • Subaru and Toyota Automotive Plant

  • Caterpillar Plant and Logistics Center

  • Eli Lilly

  • Kirby Risk Corporation.

  • Rea Magnet Wire

  • Fairfield Manufacturing.

The hill top to hill top community development focus has seen extensive restoration and redevelopment in the central riverfront areas and down town bringing a new character with the historic face of an early 1900s city. The future Riverfront Development Initiative promises to enhance continued social, cultural, and economic growth on this seam between these two vibrant communities.

Homes and Real estate in Lafayette-West Lafayette are available in all architectural styles from the late 1800s to contemporary throughout the price spectrum. A buyer can find a home that is historic as well as newly constructed in all price ranges. Downtown upscale condos and apartments that have been newly built and remodeled or restored opens up this area to professionals as well as university students wishing to live at the center of their community’s business and cultural activities. The relative cost of real estate in the area has remained at the national average in the consumer price index.

There are three distinct public school corporations, Tippecanoe, Lafayette, and West Lafayette as well as several private and parochial school choices through the high school level.