The Rob Ramsdell Team · Gibson Sotheby's International Realty
Six Markets A deliberate slice of Greater Boston
Closed sales, trailing twelve months. This is not a picture of the Boston market as a whole — it is a hand-picked set of six high-value submarkets, chosen because they are where most out-of-region referrals land.
2,617
Closed sales
$5.19B
Total volume
6
Selected submarkets
Oct 2025 – Oct 2026
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Read this first
Six submarkets, chosen because they are where most out-of-region referrals land. Greater Boston has more than a hundred cities and towns; this covers six.
Included
Boston — three neighborhoods only.Back Bay, Beacon Hill, South End.
Cambridge and Brookline — in full.Both immediately adjacent to Boston.
Lexington, Wellesley, Weston.The high-end suburban tier — single family only.
Excluded
The rest of Boston.Dorchester, Charlestown, Jamaica Plain, the Seaport and every other neighborhood — most of the city's volume.
Every other suburb.Newton, Belmont, Arlington, Winchester, Needham and dozens more, at every price tier.
Everything beyond Route 128.
Suburban condominiums.A marginal product in these three towns — 110 sales across all of them in twelve months.
What that means for the numbers. These six were picked because they sit at the top of the market, so every figure here runs high. Read this as a reference set for luxury and near-luxury referrals, not as a regional median. If your client's search falls outside these six, ask and I will pull the right comparison.
Where these six sit
Cambridge and Brookline share a border with Boston. Lexington, Weston and Wellesley sit along the Route 128 belt, ten to fifteen miles out. Everything shaded grey is excluded — including most of Boston itself.
Submarket by submarket
The urban core cards show both property types, condominiums first, since that is where the volume sits. The suburbs are single family only — condominiums are a marginal product in all three towns and the samples are too small to characterise. Colour holds steady throughout: navy is condominium, gold is single family. Median figures; the middle-50% range is the interquartile band.
The urban core
Two full cities adjacent to Boston, plus Boston's three highest-priced neighborhoods. Cambridge and Brookline are shown in their entirety; Boston is not.
Boston
Back Bay · Beacon Hill · South End only
Condominium
741 sales
$1.25M
median sale price
Median $/sqft
$1,263
Median size
1,050 sf
Sale-to-list
98.0%
Days to offer
23
Sold over asking
18%
Middle 50% range
$810K–$2.20M
Single Family
52 sales
$4.50M
median sale price
Median $/sqft
$1,402
Median size
3,660 sf
Sale-to-list
93.8%
Days to offer
66
Sold over asking
13%
Middle 50% range
$3.24M–$8.11M
Cambridge
Entire city
Condominium
532 sales
$949K
median sale price
Median $/sqft
$924
Median size
1,108 sf
Sale-to-list
100.0%
Days to offer
15
Sold over asking
38%
Middle 50% range
$744K–$1.40M
Single Family
130 sales
$2.48M
median sale price
Median $/sqft
$973
Median size
2,536 sf
Sale-to-list
100.0%
Days to offer
8
Sold over asking
50%
Middle 50% range
$1.60M–$3.49M
Brookline
Entire town
Condominium
393 sales
$1.03M
median sale price
Median $/sqft
$817
Median size
1,267 sf
Sale-to-list
99.0%
Days to offer
16
Sold over asking
32%
Middle 50% range
$720K–$1.59M
Single Family
109 sales
$2.56M
median sale price
Median $/sqft
$770
Median size
3,628 sf
Sale-to-list
97.7%
Days to offer
21
Sold over asking
30%
Middle 50% range
$2.00M–$3.67M
Three high-end western suburbs
Single family only. Selected, not representative — these three sit at the top of the suburban price range, but they are three of dozens of towns inside Route 128, and the middle and lower tiers of the suburban market appear nowhere in this report.