OMG Comparing year-to-year Boston condo sales.

Boston Condos for Sale and Apartments for Rent

OMG Comparing year-to-year Boston condo sales.

The Boston condo sales market in mid-2026 is experiencing a noticeable transition, shifting into a softer, more buyer-friendly “split market” compared to the same time last year. Overall sales volumes have decreased, active inventory is significantly higher, properties are sitting on the market longer, and prices have largely flattened or slightly dipped depending on the specific tier. [1, 2, 3, 4]

OMG Comparing year-to-year Boston condo sales.

Thanks to Mike another real estate blogger for pointing out that comparing 2022 data to last year isn’t really fair:

The pandemic years, especially 2021, were a strange aberration where everyone moved, house prices and Boston condo for sale prices skyrocketed, and nearly every real estate business posted record revenues. Included mine.

Why it matters: 

2022 is constantly being compared to 2021, which was anything but normal, and year-over-year comparisons are painting a deeply negative picture.

Dig deeper:

Assuming a fairly conservative 5.15 million existing home sold in 2022, the comparison to last year is a sobering 16 percent drop — but 2021 is an outlier, not a benchmark.  Compared to the historical average of the previous eight years (2012–2019), transaction volumes in 2022 would be down only 0.9 percent.