Boston Real Estate for Sale
Loading...

Boston Condos for Sale and Apartments for Rent

The Boston economic forecast

zillow fall forecast
KEY STATS: Market update for the week ending Sept. 19 Rate of homes going under contract slows slightly, but time on market still short
  • Buyers are still extremely keen to purchase houses, with newly pending sales up 21.8% compared to last year. However, the frenzied activity of the summer is showing signs of the typical fall slowdown, dropping 2.8% compared to a month ago and down 1% since the week prior.
  • Typical time-on-market for listings stayed steady at 13 days, which is 14 days quicker than last year. Among the 50 largest U.S. markets, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, shared the shortest typical time on market at four days to pending. Nashville posted the longest typical time on market at 33 days, while New York and Virginia Beach both marked 32.
Inventory shortage falls further
  • Total inventory dropped even further in a steady decline that began the first week of June. For-sale listings fell an enormous 34.6% below this week last year; the largest year-over-year deficit seen since Zillow’s weekly stats began in 2019.
  • There were 13.6% fewer new listings last week than at this point last year.
Prices soar amid strong demand and low supply
  • The median sale price continued its meteoric rise to $284,000 as of the week ending Aug. 8, 8.7% higher than the previous year and the largest year-over-year increase seen since at least the beginning of 2019. Sale prices were up 2% over the month prior.
  • The median list price rose to $345,000, a full 10% over last year but just 0.1% higher than a month prior.
New home sales astound in August 

Metropolitan Area*

Newly Pending Sales – YoY

Newly Pending Sales – WoW

Median Days to Pending

Total For-Sale Listings – YoY

New For-Sale Listings – YoY

New For-Sale Listings – WoW

Median Sale Price**

Median Sale Price – YoY**

United States

21.8%

-1.0%

13

-34.6%

-13.6%

4.2%

284000

8.7%

New York/Newark, NY/NJ

60.4%

0.8%

32

-20.1%

-11.5%

-0.8%

445000

2.7%

Los Angeles, CA

8.1%

0.7%

12

-24.9%

8.4%

3.4%

713375

7.7%

Chicago, IL

38.2%

-2.2%

13

-28.5%

-1.0%

8.7%

264500

7.3%

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

30.6%

-0.3%

23

-31.8%

-24.4%

1.4%

303812

9.1%

Philadelphia, PA

37.1%

3.3%

9

-37.3%

-5.8%

10.5%

279000

5.3%

Houston, TX

25.4%

-0.2%

17

-29.1%

-17.3%

8.2%

271529

9.9%

Washington, DC

21.8%

2.9%

7

-34.4%

-1.6%

3.6%

459431

8.4%

Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL

40.1%

2.6%

27

-13.4%

-12.3%

4.6%

329750

12.4%

Atlanta, GA

15.8%

-3.3%

14

-30.6%

-22.0%

6.3%

283850

10.4%

Boston, MA

6.3%

2.4%

8

-30.5%

-18.9%

1.6%

522500

8.1%

San Francisco, CA

34.4%

-1.6%

12

-4.3%

3.1%

24.0%

896500

12.1%

Detroit, MI

41.8%

-3.3%

8

-38.1%

-14.9%

12.1%

222975

11.7%

Riverside, CA

12.0%

-1.4%

9

-48.1%

6.6%

6.0%

411250

10.3%

Phoenix, AZ

18.9%

3.1%

11

-21.6%

0.0%

11.9%

322500

11.9%

Seattle, WA

20.5%

-2.3%

6

-32.2%

-6.3%

-2.8%

535525

11.1%

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN

31.2%

1.1%

17

-27.1%

3.9%

-0.3%

311625

9.3%

San Diego, CA

8

-38.2%

2.5%

-1.7%

635188

8.9%

St. Louis, MO

16.8%

-1.6%

6

-38.4%

-11.2%

14.7%

217912

10.7%

Tampa, FL

8

-34.8%

-16.4%

-4.4%

258409

9.5%

Baltimore, MD

17.2%

6.6%

12

-44.8%

-12.7%

9.3%

317500

0.8%

Denver, CO

25.8%

-1.5%

6

-34.2%

16.2%

21.8%

462881

6.5%

Pittsburgh, PA

52.3%

1.3%

9

-27.2%

-2.3%

11.8%

199499

7.7%

Portland, OR

21.9%

-5.5%

6

-37.0%

-28.4%

-1.3%

440225

8.6%

Charlotte, NC

-1.8%

-1.1%

6

-42.9%

-19.2%

14.2%

286500

8.5%

Sacramento, CA

18.3%

-1.5%

7

-44.1%

0.3%

1.6%

452875

8.1%

San Antonio, TX

34.4%

0.6%

27

-25.7%

-23.1%

11.0%

252812

8.2%

Orlando, FL

12

-17.0%

-3.0%

11.4%

282562

7.8%

Cincinnati, OH

12.0%

0.7%

4

-39.1%

-3.7%

21.9%

212125

11.8%

Cleveland, OH

70.9%

0.3%

18

-39.8%

-0.8%

-2.5%

175350

9.6%

Kansas City, MO

15.4%

-0.6%

5

-43.7%

-4.9%

22.8%

259250

12.7%

Las Vegas, NV

18.5%

-1.4%

15

-23.3%

8.3%

2.3%

304750

-0.1%

Columbus, OH

18.6%

0.6%

4

-40.1%

-11.4%

10.4%

240500

16.1%

Indianapolis, IN

14.0%

2.4%

5

-41.0%

6.7%

31.9%

222625

8.4%

San Jose, CA

-9.7%

-3.5%

15

-20.2%

20.3%

18.1%

1139375

8.6%

Austin, TX

29.2%

2.0%

8

-37.0%

-2.9%

41.5%

357978

12.4%

Virginia Beach, VA

32

-40.7%

-1.3%

0.7%

276912

8.1%

Nashville, TN

33

-24.0%

-36.9%

17.5%

317850

5.1%

Providence, RI

-2.9%

3.7%

13

-38.3%

-24.4%

4.2%

318600

5.4%

Milwaukee, WI

28

-6.5%

-6.2%

31.2%

207475

6.9%

Jacksonville, FL

43.2%

1.4%

14

-36.7%

-17.0%

0.2%

268362

1.3%

Memphis, TN

33.9%

1.1%

7

-45.4%

-20.2%

6.1%

209212

7.0%

Oklahoma City, OK

20.4%

-4.6%

10

-35.5%

-6.2%

24.8%

205750

12.5%

Louisville, KY

3.0%

-0.6%

5

-43.9%

-8.3%

1.3%

217812

9.0%

Hartford, CT

49.6%

-1.3%

10

-41.5%

5.7%

10.9%

258800

7.8%

Richmond, VA

6

-39.9%

-10.0%

9.3%

284688

7.9%

New Orleans, LA

4.1%

-1.7%

17

-44.0%

-20.8%

-2.0%

232875

6.6%

Buffalo, NY

18.7%

-2.5%

10

-36.2%

-8.6%

-0.3%

189850

9.7%

Raleigh, NC

15.0%

1.3%

5

-41.4%

-25.7%

13.1%

312812

5.8%

Birmingham, AL

43.2%

0.9%

8

-35.4%

9.3%

22.3%

224942

4.8%

Salt Lake City, UT

6

-45.5%

-33.7%

29.8%

381916

11.2%

*Table ordered by market size 

**Sale price data as of the week ending Aug. 8

1 The Zillow Weekly Market Reports are a weekly overview of the national and local real estate markets. The reports are compiled by Zillow Economic Research and data is aggregated from public sources and listing data on Zillow.com. New for-sale listings data reflect daily counts using a smoothed, seven-day trailing average. Total for-sale listings, newly pending sales, days to pending and median list price data reflect weekly counts using a smoothed, four-week trailing average. National newly pending sales trends are based upon aggregation of the 38 largest metro areas where historic pending listing data coverage is most statistically reliable, and excludes som

Call Now