Five zip codes in Massachusetts are among the 100 most expensive places in the nation to purchase a home, according to a study from the real estate data and research company PropertyShark.
On average, the five areas — in Boston’s Back Bay, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard and the Boston suburbs of Weston and Wellesley — saw their median home sales reach more than $2.4 million this year.
Miami Beach’s Fisher Island topped the list of the United States’ priciest zip codes, with home sales ranging from a minimum $1.41 million up to $23.7 million this year. Its median sale of $9.5 million led a zip code in San Mateo County, California, where the median sale reached $8.3 million, and a Long Island, New York, zip code that hit $5.9 million.
Boston’s 02199 zip code, which surrounds the Prudential Center, had the second-highest median home sale in the U.S. in 2021, at $5.5 million. This year, its median sale was roughly $2.57 million, leading Massachusetts but placing 54th nationally, according to PropertyShark.
Nantucket’s 02554 zip code trailed at $2.5 million, placing 63rd nationally, after hitting $2.9 million last year.
It was followed by the 02535 zip code in Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard, which reached a new high of $2.48 million and ranked 64th nationally.
Weston’s 02493 saw its median sale hit $2.4 million (72nd in the U.S.) while 02481 in Wellesley reached $2.25 million (80th).
Connecticut’s 06878 zip code was the priciest place to buy a home in New England, at $2.75 million. Six other Connecticut zip codes also landed in the top 100, the third most for a state after New York and California.
For the first time, according to PropertyShark, New Hampshire’s most expensive zip code topped the priciest spot in Massachusetts.
New Castle, New Hampshire, reached median home sales of $2.65 million, tying the record high for the state set by a zip code in Rye Beach three years ago.
Here is PropertyShark’s complete list of the 100 most expensive zip codes in the U.S. this year.
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