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Oct 9, 2025 10:50:32 AM
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The following 27 Greater Boston cities and towns experienced declines in single-family median prices through the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Massachusetts Home Prices, The Warren Group, Marshfield MA, Braintree MA, Cambridge MA, Dunstable MA, Duxbury MA, Acton MA, Wayland MA, Canton MA, Medfield MA, Franklin MA, Milford MA, Hanson MA, Holliston MA, North Reading MA, Nahant MA, Hopkinton MA, Marion MA, Lakeville MA, Middleton MA, Norton MA, Southborough MA, Stow MA, Sudbury MA, Grafton MA, Harvard MA, Marblehead MA, Winthrop MA
Jul 13, 2025 7:17:01 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts, single-family home sales increased in May on a year-over-year basis even as median prices dropped, signaling a possible market adjustment ahead of summer.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Community Information, Massachusetts Home Prices, Massachusetts Association of Realtors, Cambridge MA
Apr 30, 2025 11:56:56 AM
Greater Boston home sales took a breather in March after a hot start to 2025, but that didn't stop median home prices from rising.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Community Information, Massachusetts Home Prices, Massachusetts Association of Realtors, Dedham MA, Needham MA, Braintree MA, Cambridge MA, Lexington MA, Lynnfield MA, Wakefield MA, Andover MA, Amesbury MA, Melrose MA, Brookline MA, Belmont MA, Newburyport MA, Burlington MA, Canton MA, Milton MA, Norwood MA, Hanover MA, Lynn MA, Watertown MA, Quincy MA, North Andover MA, Revere MA, Natick MA, Danvers MA, Reading MA
May 9, 2018 9:07:31 AM
The Boston rental market likely is encouraging more tenants to consider homeownership and braving the low inventory Boston area real estate market.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Home-buying Tips, Real Estate Misc., Cambridge MA, Boston
Feb 13, 2018 12:52:13 PM
Condominium sales in Cambridge, Massachusetts declined, prices increased, and inventory plunged in 2017, according to data compiled by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Massachusetts Home Prices, Massachusetts Association of Realtors, Cambridge MA
Aug 7, 2016 8:25:32 AM
A recent article in the Financial Times suggested that buying a home in Cambridge, Massachusetts was more difficult than getting into Harvard. If you have tried to buy a home in Cambridge in the last year or two, you're probably thinking that sounds about right.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Community Information, Massachusetts Home Prices, Cambridge MA
May 17, 2015 10:49:54 AM
Inventory.
It's the word being thrown around quite a bit whenever anyone in the Boston area is talking about or writing about the real estate market. It's usually coupled with words like "tight," "scarce" and "low." It's the reason for the many multiple-offer situations and rising home prices over the last two years.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Cambridge MA, Boston, Melrose MA, Newton MA, Milton MA, Jamaica Plain MA, Weymouth MA, Watertown MA
May 8, 2015 6:37:15 AM
The greater Boston real estate market has had an inventory problem for about two years now, but the situation in Cambridge, Massachusetts is pretty amazing.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Community Information, Massachusetts Home Prices, Cambridge MA
Nov 19, 2014 8:30:00 AM
Through the first three quarters of 2014, the median price of a single-family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts increased 34.4 percent to $1,250,359 compared to $930,500 during the same nine-month period in 2013, according to data from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Community Information, Massachusetts Home Prices, Cambridge MA
Jan 18, 2014 8:53:00 AM
From January through November 2013, the price of a condominium in Cambridge, Massachusetts increased compared to the same period in 2012, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported in December.
The median price of a condominium in Cambridge, MA rose 15.2 percent to $514,250, up from $446,250 during the same eleven months in 2012. During the month of November, the median price increased to $616,750, a 34.4 percent rise from $459,000 for a condo during November 2012.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Community Information, Massachusetts Home Prices, Cambridge MA
Mar 1, 2013 9:17:00 AM
Home to a diverse population, including many students attending several local universities, such as Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and professionals in a myriad of fields and of various ages, Cambridge, Massachusetts is a much sought-after place to live in the Bay State.
Through the many unique communities, both residential and urban, its rich historical influences, and booming professional and cultural sectors, Cambridge, MA real estate, including single-family homes and condominiums, attracts individuals from many walks of life.
Cambridge has a vibrant history, giving residents a cultural experience that is unique from many other places in the country. Founded in 1630, Cambridge was originally named Newe Towne and settled by Puritan colonists under John Winthrop's leadership. Due to many prominent settlers and leaders in the area being graduates from England’s Cambridge University, the name of the city was changed to Cambridge in 1638.
Topics: Community Information, Massachusetts Relocation, Cambridge MA
Feb 14, 2013 10:15:00 PM
So how much house could you afford, if you ditched your $1,825 per month rent payment for a mortgage? Property taxes vary from town to town, and so do condo fees, but home buyers could probably afford about a $300,000 single-family home or condominium for $1,825 per month, give or take about $15,000.
Using today's interest rates – about 3.5 percent – you can calculate the cost of principal and interest on our simple mortgage calculator.
The Boston Businnes Journal reported February 8, 2013 that one sector of the economy is great. That's Boston's rental housing market, and landloards in the Greater Boston Area are making a killing.
Topics: Real Estate Market, Cambridge MA, Boston, Brookline MA, Somerville MA
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