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She had almost finished. The house had belonged to her parents. She had spent years and a small fortune bringing it back — the exterior was immaculate, the kind of work you notice from the street. The kitchen was done. The bathrooms were done. Nearly every wall in the house had been re-plastered, which anyone … Continued

The house had been empty since the fall. The oil tank was low when the last person walked out, and nobody thought much about it — it was still warm out. Then the tank ran dry, the furnace shut down, the temperature inside the house dropped to whatever it was outside, and on some ordinary … Continued

Names in this story have been changed to protect the privacy of the family involved. Everything else happened exactly as described. Most “we buy houses” companies will tell you they can handle anything. Very few will show you the receipts. So here’s a full look at one of our projects — 10 Newton Avenue in … Continued

Holbrook does not get written about much. It is a town of roughly 11,000 people wedged between Braintree, Randolph and Avon, and it tends to get treated as a place people drive through on the way to somewhere else. Its August 2026 numbers deserve a closer look than that. The average Holbrook single-family home sold … Continued

Plymouth is the largest housing market in this report by a wide margin — 419 single-family sales from January through August 2026, more than double the next busiest town. When something moves in Plymouth, it is not a statistical accident. There are enough transactions here that the trends mean something. And the trend right now … Continued

Across ten South Shore towns and the Massachusetts market as a whole, one place breaks the pattern completely. Hull homes sell for less than the asking price. Consistently. Month after month. In August 2026, the average Hull single-family home closed at 96.94% of list. Weymouth got 104.01%. Rockland got 103.47%. Massachusetts as a whole got … Continued

There is a simple reason Rockland keeps outperforming, and it fits in one number. The average asking price on a Rockland single-family home right now is $527,462. That is the lowest of any market in this report — lower than Holbrook, lower than East Bridgewater, and less than half the Massachusetts statewide asking average of … Continued

If you want to see what a healthy, functioning housing market looks like in 2026, Bridgewater is a good place to start. Not the most expensive. Not the fastest. But across almost every measure that matters, Bridgewater is moving in the right direction while much of Massachusetts drifts the other way. Start with volume. Bridgewater … Continued

Most of the towns in this report are still, by any historical standard, seller’s markets. West Bridgewater is the exception, and it is not particularly close. The town carries 3.47 months of inventory as of August 2026. Massachusetts as a whole sits at 1.66. Weymouth is at 0.84. West Bridgewater has more than twice the … Continued

Every housing market has a gap between what sellers want and what buyers pay. In East Bridgewater right now, that gap is $270,502, and it is the widest this town has recorded in at least six years. The average East Bridgewater home that actually closed in August 2026 sold for $627,231. The average East Bridgewater … Continued

There is one number in the August 2026 Weymouth data that separates this town from every other market we track, and it has nothing to do with price levels or sales counts. Weymouth homes sold for 104.01% of their asking price last month. For context, Massachusetts as a whole came in at 100.17%. Plymouth managed … Continued

Fifteen homes sold in Halifax last month. If you live somewhere like Quincy or Plymouth that sounds like a rounding error. In Halifax, a town of roughly 7,700 people out on the Plympton line, fifteen sales in a single month is an event. It is more than the town managed in January, February, March and … Continued

Quincy is running two markets at once right now, and they are pointing in opposite directions. Market number one: prices. The average Quincy single-family home sold for $856,860 in August 2026, up 12.4% from $762,070 a year earlier. Pull back and look at the full fifteen-year history and that figure ranks as the sixth-highest monthly … Continued

Something changed in Massachusetts this spring, and August was the month it became impossible to ignore. For most of the last four years, the story of this state’s housing market was the same one on repeat: not enough homes, too many buyers, and whatever price the seller named. August 2026 does not read like that. … Continued