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Even with still historically low housing inventory, there’s more single-family homes on the market — and more selling — this spring.
Single-family homes saw more closed sales, more new listings and lower prices in June 2026, according to a report out this month from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors. For condominiums, closed sales and new listings went up, too — but so did median sales price.
“June was definitely a very strong rebound month,” said Kristen Keegan, president of Massachusetts Association of Realtors.
But experts cautioned that’s typical for this time of year and might not indicate a bigger shift toward a cheaper and more open housing market in Massachusetts.
According to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors’ data, the median sales price for single-family homes dropped by 1.4% compared with June of last year, but rose by 1.7% for condominiums. Closed sales for single-family homes increased by 7.0% and by 9.1% for condominiums.
“The report is unsurprising to me, particularly where you see condominiums catching up,” said Jim Nemetz, manager of Hammond Residential in Chestnut Hill, Coldwell Banker Brookline, and Coldwell Banker Newton.
Nemetz said the Boston market is filled with a lot of “submarkets” that move at different times in different ways. In some communities, he’s seen the changes firsthand.
“The more urban condominiums in North Brookline and downtown Boston have picked up, mainly because when we experienced COVID, there was a little bit of an exodus from the city,” he said. “And now there has been much more of a return.”
The realtors’ association data shows median price of a single-family home in June 2026 was $715,000 compared to $725,000 in 2025. For condos, the price went up from $580,000 last June to $590,000.
Luxury homes and condos in Newton and Brookline are still slower to sell, Nemetz said — but the housing market is competitive for lower-priced real estate.
“The starter home single-family market has been red-hot. And the lower the starting point in any community, the faster it is,” Nemetz said.
As the summer months tick away, Nemetz said one trend he sees year after year is that the summer and fall markets are a great time to be a buyer.
“When we talk about the fall market, we joke about the fact that fall buyers are really spring buyers in drag,” he said.
Those prospective fall buyers will start touring houses and considering a move — but aren’t really ready to buy yet, he said.
“The houses that they were looking at in the fall that didn’t sell? They were withdrawn for the holidays, reintroduced in February — same price, same house — and they watch in horror as it goes with multiple offers way over the asking price,” Nemetz said. “And they could have had it for much cheaper in the fall.”
