The S&P Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index has risen steadily since February 2020. The index measures changes in the prices of existing single-family homes. The index value was equal to 100 as of January 2000, so if the index value is equal to 130 in a given month, for example, it means that the house prices have increased by 30 percent since 2000. The value of the S&P Case Shiller Boston Home Price Index amounted to nearly 335.36 in August 2024. That was above the national average.

Graph and download economic data for S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller MA-Boston Home Price Index from Jan 1987 to Dec 2024 about Boston, NH, MA, HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Home Price Index (High Tier) for Boston, Massachusetts (BOXRHTNSA) from Jan 1987 to Jan 2025 about high tier, Boston, HPI, housing, price index, indexes, price, and USA.

The U.S. housing market has slowed, after 13 consecutive years of rising home prices. In 2021, house prices surged by an unprecedented 18 percent, marking the highest increase on record. However, the market has since cooled, with the Freddie Mac House Price Index showing more modest growth between 2022 and 2024. In 2024, home prices increased by 4.2 percent. That was lower than the long-term average of 4.4 percent since 1990. Impact of mortgage rates on homebuying The recent cooling in the housing market can be partly attributed to rising mortgage rates. After reaching a record low of 2.96 percent in 2021, the average annual rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage more than doubled in 2023. This significant increase has made homeownership less affordable for many potential buyers, contributing to a substantial decline in home sales. Despite these challenges, forecasts suggest a potential recovery in the coming years. How much does it cost to buy a house in the U.S.? In 2023, the median sales price of an existing single-family home reached a record high of over 389,000 U.S. dollars. Newly built homes were even pricier, despite a slight decline in the median sales price in 2023. Naturally, home prices continue to vary significantly across the country, with West Virginia being the most affordable state for homebuyers.

The median house prices in the most expensive zip codes in New England, United States ranged from 1.9 to 2.8 million U.S. dollars. Boston (zip code 02199) was the most expensive in New England with a median house price of 2.8 million U.S. dollars. Nevertheless, that was more affordable than in the ten zip codes with the highest median house price in the entire United States.

Analysis of ‘Boston House Prices-Advanced Regression Techniques’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/fedesoriano/the-boston-houseprice-data on 13 February 2022.

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Context

The Boston house-price data of Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L. 'Hedonic prices and the demand for clean air', J. Environ. Economics & Management, vol.5, 81-102, 1978.

Attribute Information

Input features in order: 1) CRIM: per capita crime rate by town 2) ZN: proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft. 3) INDUS: proportion of non-retail business acres per town 4) CHAS: Charles River dummy variable (1 if tract bounds river; 0 otherwise) 5) NOX: nitric oxides concentration (parts per 10 million) [parts/10M] 6) RM: average number of rooms per dwelling 7) AGE: proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940 8) DIS: weighted distances to five Boston employment centres 9) RAD: index of accessibility to radial highways 10) TAX: full-value property-tax rate per $10,000 [$/10k] 11) PTRATIO: pupil-teacher ratio by town 12) B: The result of the equation B=1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town 13) LSTAT: % lower status of the population

Output variable: 1) MEDV: Median value of owner-occupied homes in $1000's [k$]

Source

StatLib - Carnegie Mellon University

Relevant Papers

Harrison, David & Rubinfeld, Daniel. (1978). Hedonic housing prices and the demand for clean air. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 5. 81-102. 10.1016/0095-0696(78)90006-2. LINK

Belsley, David A. & Kuh, Edwin. & Welsch, Roy E. (1980). Regression diagnostics: identifying influential data and sources of collinearity. New York: Wiley LINK

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Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Median Days on Market Month-Over-Month in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) (MEDDAYONMARMM14460) from Jul 2017 to Feb 2025 about Boston, NH, MA, median, and USA.

The Assessing Online application brings direct access for taxpayers, homeowners, real estate and legal professionals as well as business owners to property parcel data including assessed value, location, ownership and tax information for each piece of property in the city.

The information assists homeowners directly in their ownership responsibilities by providing the current value and tax status of their property. Professional real estate, business and legal entities access and draw upon Boston property parcel data to support and enhance their specific business operations. The GIS data appended to this application provides valuable graphical contexts for researchers, analysts and other professionals interested in demographical patterns, property usage and development.

The Back Bay district was the most expensive real estate market for office space in Boston in the third quarter of 2024. On average, the average asking rent was about 69 U.S. dollars per square foot of office space. Downtown Boston, the market with the largest inventory of office space among Boston districts, had the second highest rent, at about 68 U.S. dollars. The gross rental rate usually includes costs for utilities and other general maintenance expenses.

This statistic shows the housing markets with the largest year-on-year change in house flips in the United States in 2018. The house flipping rate in Boston, Massachusetts was 33 percent higher in 2018 than in 2017. House flipping is a real estate term which refers to the practice of an investor buying property with the aim of reselling them for a profit. The investor either invests capital into each respective property in the form of renovations or simply resells the properties if home prices are on the rise.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Masayu Anandita

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Contents

Gives property, or parcel, ownership together with value information, which ensures fair assessment of Boston taxable and non-taxable property of all types and classifications. To preserve their integrity, the identifiers PID, CM_ID, GIS_ID, ZIPCODE, and MAIL_ZIPCODE all are marked with an underscore ("_") as the last character.

Year-specific documentation for the FY2008 through FY2013 files is not currently available, but the format of those files is equivalent to that described in the FY2014 documentation.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Median Listing Price per Square Feet in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (CBSA) (MEDLISPRIPERSQUFEE14460) from Jul 2016 to Feb 2025 about Boston, NH, MA, square feet, listing, median, price, and USA.

United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: Condo/Co-op: Boston, MA data was reported at 482.000 USD th in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 479.000 USD th for Jun 2020. United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: Condo/Co-op: Boston, MA data is updated monthly, averaging 397.000 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 520.000 USD th in Mar 2020 and a record low of 290.000 USD th in Mar 2012. United States Median Home Sale Price: sa: Condo/Co-op: Boston, MA data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB057: Median Home Sale Price: by Metropolitan Areas: Seasonally Adjusted.

Greater Boston had the largest amount of real estate under construction among the top U.S. research and development and life science real estate markets. In the first half of 2023, approximately 11.4 million square feet of R&D life science real estate was under construction. San Francisco Bay Area followed shortly, with 8.1 million square feet under construction during the same period.

San Francisco Bay Rare was the largest research and development (R&D) and life science real estate market in the United States in 2023, with a total inventory of 36.9 million square feet. Greater Boston, Massachusetts, followed with over 36.5 million square feet. The life science REIT Alexandria Real Estate Equities was the largest owner of life science real estate during that year.

Greater Boston had the largest amount of real estate under renovation among the top research and development (R&D) and life science real estate markets in the United States in the first half of 2022. No real estate under renovation was reported for New Jersey or Houston in the same period. Great Boston also had the largest amount of life science real estate under construction in the same period.

RentSmart Boston compiles data from BOS:311 and the City's Inspectional Services Division to give prospective tenants a more complete picture of the homes and apartments they are considering renting, assisting them in understanding any previous issues with the property, including: housing violations, building violations, enforcement violations, housing complaints, sanitation requests, and/or civic maintenance requests.

You can look up individual properties using the RentSmart dashboard here.

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH - Home Price Index (High Tier) for Boston, Massachusetts was 260.63048 Index Jan 2000 = 100 in January of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH - Home Price Index (High Tier) for Boston, Massachusetts reached a record high of 260.63048 in January of 2022 and a record low of 62.66650 in May of 1991. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH - Home Price Index (High Tier) for Boston, Massachusetts - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for Housing Inventory: Median Listing Price per Square Feet Year-Over-Year in Middlesex County, MA (MEDLISPRIPERSQUFEEYY25017) from Jul 2017 to Feb 2025 about Middlesex County, MA; Boston; MA; square feet; listing; median; price; and USA.