Massachusetts
Massachusetts housing trends: Homes, condos taken off market at faster rate than in 2024
Though the median single-family home price continues to jump in Massachusetts, housing units are being taken off the market at a faster rate than a year ago.
The Bay State saw 2,136 single-family home sales in February, a rate that is 4.2% higher than the 2,050 transactions in February 2024, despite median prices rising 4.9% from the year before to $575,000, according to the Warren Group.
“In a continuation of trends set at the end of 2024, the number of single-family home sales and the median sale price are both up slightly from a year before,” said Cassidy Norton, Associate Publisher and Media Relations Director of the Warren Group.
Last year, the Massachusetts housing market recorded an all-time high for the median single-family home price as it reached $615,000, a 7.9% rise on a year-over-year basis.
If the first two months of this year are any indicator, prices could reach yet another all-time high as the median sing-family home sales spiked 5.5% to $580,000 in January and February, according to data the Warren Group published on Tuesday.
More than 4,765 single-family homes have been taken off the market so far this year, a 7% increase in the amount through the first two months of 2024.
Norton also noted that condominium sales followed broadly the same patterns as single-family homes, with 2,266 condos sold in the first two months of 2025, a 10.5% increase from 2024.
“The 10% year-to-date increase in sales may reflect an increase in inventory,” Norton said in a statement, “potentially illustrating a loosening in the market.”
In a report last week, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors highlighted how the median sales price for single-family homes decreased in February from January – the fourth consecutive month that costs have lowered from the month before.
Prices for single-family homes dropped by 1.6% to $600,000 and condominiums lowered by 4.5% to $534,950 from January, the MAR report indicates.
“Following a strong surge of new listings in January, February brought snowstorms and freezing temperatures, which delayed activity, with sellers remaining hesitant to put their homes on the market and buyers deterred from searching,” the report states.
“With the weather improving and median sales price decreasing,” the report adds, “it offers sellers the opportunity to put their properties back on the market and for buyers to enter a more active market.”
Massachusetts’ ongoing housing crisis remains at the top of mind for state policymakers.
Gov. Maura Healey released a “comprehensive housing plan” last month, outlining strategies to lower costs and build 220,000 new units over the next decade to mitigate the state’s ongoing housing crisis.
Strategies that could lead to a 7% increase in housing units statewide by 2035 include protecting, preserving and restoring affordable homes; providing direct subsidies and increasing access to homeownership for first-time homebuyers; preventing evictions and foreclosures; and working with employers on workforce housing needs.
“At the root of our challenge with the costs is a shortage of homes,” Healey said last month. “And it’s a shortage, as I say, that has built up over many years, as our state was not building the housing that we needed to keep pace with our economic growth.”
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Watch Live: 2025 Massachusetts high school football championship games at Gillette Stadium
Sixteen high school football teams are playing at Gillette Stadium this week looking to become a Massachusetts state champion at the home of the New England Patriots.
All eight Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) state football championship games are being played Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Foxboro.
Where to watch high school football championships
You can watch all of the games streaming live in the embedded video on CBS News Boston. All of the games on Friday and Saturday will also be broadcast on WSBK TV-38 in the Boston area.
Here’s the schedule for the games at Gillette Stadium:
Thursday, Dec. 4
Division 7: Amesbury (2) vs. Cohasset (1), 5 p.m.
Division 6: Fairhaven (3) vs. Norwell (1), 7:45 p.m.*
Friday, Dec. 5
Division 5: Foxboro (2) vs. Shawsheen Tech (1), 5 p.m.
Division 3: North Attleboro (7) vs. King Philip (1), 7:45 p.m.*
Saturday, Dec. 6
Division 8: Randolph (4) vs. West Boylston (3), 10 a.m.
Division 4: Tewksbury (2) vs. Scituate (1), 12:45 p.m.*
Division 2: Bishop Feehan (2) vs. Catholic Memorial (1), 3:30 p.m.*
Division 1: Xaverian (3) vs. St. John’s Prep (1), 6:15 p.m.*
*Game times are approximate
This is the 18th year that Gillette Stadium is hosting the Massachusetts state championships.
High school football championships tickets
If you want to go to any of the games, you must get your tickets online first. They will not be sold at the stadium and will only be available through Ticketmaster. All tickets are digital and you can access them with the Gillette Stadium app. It’s recommended that you add your tickets to Apple Wallet or Google Pay.
Tickets are $22.45 each and parking is included. Children age 5 and under can get in free. A ticket will get you into Gillette for each of that day’s games, but tailgating is prohibited and once you leave the stadium, you can’t get back inside.
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Massive 14-foot shark dies after being stranded on Massachusetts beach during migration
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A 14-foot-long thresher shark died Tuesday after becoming stranded in shallow water off the coast of Massachusetts.
The New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA), a nonprofit organization that responded to the scene, told Fox News Digital Wednesday that the shark was first spotted alive at Mayo Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, the animal died just before NECWA arrived at the site.
“Yesterday morning, NECWA received numerous calls about a possibly live thresher shark that was stranded in shallow water off Mayo Beach, Wellfleet, MA,” the alliance said in a Facebook post Wednesday. “Our team jumped into action and rushed to the site to try and rescue this shark. Unfortunately the animal died just before the team arrived.”
Photos from the scene show the large-eyed, slender thresher lying on the shore with an extremely long, whip-like tail, measuring about half the length of its body. The shark appeared injured with visible track-like marks on its body.
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A thresher shark is examined after becoming stranded on shore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. (New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance)
NECWA noted that the animal was already in poor condition by the time their team arrived and that a necropsy of the animal had been conducted.
“The fish that died in Wellfleet was alive when first sighted but was not in great shape,” Marine Biologist and President of NECWA Krill Carson told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital reached out to shark biologist John Chisholm for more information on the necropsy.
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A 14-foot-long shark stranded at Mayo Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Dec. 2, 2025. (New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance)
The organization said strandings of thresher sharks are particularly common during the colder months along the shores of Cape Cod. Carson added that the majority of stranded threshers they encounter are male.
“Not unusual for thresher sharks to strand in New England in the fall as they are trying to navigate to warmer waters to the south,” the organization said in the Facebook post. “Like many marine animals, this shark took a wrong turn and ended up in Wellfleet’s inner harbor.”
A shark appearing injured dies after getting stranded off Mayo Beach, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Dec. 2, 2025. (New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance)
After becoming stranded, thresher sharks are at high risk of dying because they cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to cold temperatures, Carson said. She noted that bay water temperatures at that time were roughly below 50 degrees and continued to drop.
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A male thresher shark was found stranded during migration. (New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance)
“A handful of threshers strand each season as they get trapped inside Cape Cod and are unable to continue their migration south,” Carson told Fox News Digital. “If they stay in our area too long, then they will become cold-stunned or cold-shocked and die.”
NECWA is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization. Contributions can be made at necwa.org.
Tuesday’s storm was a serious snowmaker for some parts of New England — especially in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.
While areas to the south saw mostly rain, some local towns received a foot of snow or more.
The jackpot towns receiving the most snow were Freedom, New Hampshire, at 12.6 inches, and Anson, Maine, at exactly one foot.
Here’s a look at snowfall totals across the region, according to the National Weather Service:
Massachusetts
Pittsfield: 7″
Becket: 7″
Fitchburg: 7″
Lunenberg: 7″
Ashby: 7″
Vermont
Manchester: 10.6″
Tunbridge: 8.5″
Landgrove: 8.5″
New Hampshire
Freedom: 12.6″
Bridgewater: 11.1″
Peterborough: 9.5″
Meredith: 9.3″
Durham: 9″
Dunbarton: 9″
Moultonborough: 8.8″
Albany: 8.5″
Laconia: 8.5″
Manchester: 8.4″
Maine
Anson: 12″
Porter: 11″
China: 9″
Farmingdale: 8.4″
Baldwin: 8.4″
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