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Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, July 1 to September 30 in 2025 and 2026. Covers Quincy, Weymouth, Holbrook, Rockland, Hull, Halifax, Plymouth, Bridgewater, East Bridgewater and West Bridgewater, with Massachusetts statewide for comparison. Compiled by Bluefin Property Buyers, October 2026. Every month we publish separate market reports for ten South Shore and Plymouth County towns … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Holbrook, through September 30, 2026. One month ago, Holbrook set a record. The average single-family home sold for $645,600 in August 2026, the highest monthly average in our Holbrook data. In September, the average was $530,730. That is 17.8% lower in a single month, and 9.7% below September 2025. Swings … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Plymouth, through September 30, 2026. For anyone selling a house in New England, September is when the season ends. The spring buyers have bought. The families with kids have closed before school started. A house that has been on the market since May now faces a decision: cut the price, … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Hull, through September 30, 2026. Hull crossed a line this year. The average single-family home in Hull sold for $1,024,981 in the second quarter of 2026 and $1,017,158 in the third. Two consecutive quarters above $1 million is a first in our Hull records. A year earlier, in Q3 2025, … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Rockland, through September 30, 2026. In August we published a headline we were proud of: Rockland homes had sold above asking price in 17 of the last 18 months. We explained why we thought the streak was holding. In September, it broke. The average Rockland single-family home sold for 98.65% … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Bridgewater, through September 30, 2026. Bridgewater did something in the third quarter that most South Shore towns did not. It sold a lot more houses. Sixty single-family homes closed in Bridgewater between July and September 2026, compared with 50 in the same months of 2025. That 20% gain is the … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, West Bridgewater, through September 30, 2026. West Bridgewater sells very few houses. Sixteen in the third quarter. Five in September. In August we spent much of our report warning readers not to over-read monthly swings in a town this small. That warning still stands. But there is one pattern in … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, East Bridgewater, through September 30, 2026. Last month’s East Bridgewater report ended with a dare. The average home for sale in town was asking $897,733. The average home that actually sold went for $627,231. A $270,502 gap, the widest we had seen, and our headline said it plainly: somebody is … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Weymouth, through September 30, 2026. There are two ways to tell the story of Weymouth’s third quarter, and both are true. The quarterly version: Weymouth just gave sellers their best three months since the spring of 2024. Homes sold for an average of 103.74% of asking from July through September. … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Halifax, through September 30, 2026. Last month we called August’s 15 sales in Halifax an event. September did it again: 15 more. Thirty closings in sixty days, in a town of about 7,700 people where five or six sales is an ordinary month. Halifax closed 38 single-family homes in the … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, Quincy, through September 30, 2026. In our August report on Quincy, we made a prediction. Inventory had finally built up over the summer, we wrote, and many of those listings would close in September and October, so “Quincy’s fall numbers may look considerably better than its spring ones.” September answered … Continued

Data: MLS PIN, single-family homes, statewide, through September 30, 2026. Published October 2026 by Bluefin Property Buyers. Every housing report published this fall needs to be read with one date in mind. On October 1, 2026, Freddie Mac reported the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate at 7.28%. Three weeks earlier it was 6.76%. Over the … Continued

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