Wow.  I thought it was expensive to find a house in Maine and New Hampshire, but according to a 2026 study by Realtor.com, this Massachusetts place lands pretty high on the list.

If you're trying to buy a house at this time in New Hampshire, Maine or Massachusetts, I feel your pain.  If anything is less than say... $400K, you kinda wonder, "Okay, what's wrong with it?"

Realtor.com collected real estate data based on these three things:

  • Median Price
  • Square Feet
  • Total Listing Count

The Top 10 ZIP codes start at $5.5 million dollars as a median price. Interestingly, California holds 7 towns in the top 10, including the number one spot, Newport Beach where the median listing price is $12.5 dollars.  That's in American Dollars....  WOWZERS.

Nantucket Island Is One of the Most Expensive Zip Codes in America

The only New England town is Nantucket, Mass with a median home price of $4.85 Million dollars, American.

Anyway, the Top 10 besides Newport Beach, California include;

  • Miami Beach:  $11.98 Million Median Price of a home
  • Bridgehampton, NY:  $8.8 Million Media Price (any town with "hampton" tacked on a the end is definitely expensive.
  • Paradise Valley, Arizona:  $5.5 million American Dollars.

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Maybe it's because we are not that far from New York, but I thought this figure was absolutely nuts. To buy a property in New York, the median price is about $4.8 million.  What the..... I don't know why that surprises me so much.  I recently took a trip to NYC to see a Broadway Show (Hell's Kitchen - go see it, you'll love it) and the Hotel for ONE FLIPPIN' NIGHT came to over $400.  It was a nice hotel, but geez o' PETE!

 

 

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