Massachusetts Home Prices Soar To New Heights
The price of buying a home in Massachusetts continues to soar, even as the country contends with the COVID-19 crisis.
The median sale price of a single-family home in March climbed to $485,000, according to a new report from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR), which has seen a rise in the number of houses being closed on.
Year-to-year, the $485,000 median price tag on a single-family home is up 16.9 percent from 2020, while the price of condos is up nearly 7 percent, to $459,450.
According to the report, the association reported that 3,385 single-family home sales closed in Ma…
New York Times Describes Mount Kisco As Affordable, Walkable, Multicultural
Unlike some nearby communities, Mount Kisco is ethnically diverse, having attracted immigrants from Italy, Ireland and, more recently, Latin America.
The bustling northern Westchester County village was profiled this week in The New York Times.
In the article titled, "Affordable, Walkable and Multicultural," the Times wrote: "Good schools, check. Train station no more than an hour’s commute from Manhattan, check. Proximity to parks and forests, check."
According to the Times, Mount Kisco’s housing stock serves a spectrum of income levels and stages of life.
Nearly h…