Change in single-family sales, 2007-08.
| Community | Change | 2008 sales | Rank |
| Abington | -9% | 89 | 140 |
| Acton | -10% | 148 | 152 |
| Acushnet | -9% | 60 | 136 |
| Adams | -14% | 60 | 183 |
| Agawam | -8% | 193 | 124 |
| Alford | -67% | 1 | 357 |
| Allston | 50% | 12 | 7 |
| Amesbury | -28% | 91 | 298 |
| Amherst | -23% | 114 | 260 |
| Andover | -18% | 266 | 215 |
| Aquinnah | -11% | 8 | 157 |
| Arlington | -21% | 248 | 244 |
| Ashburnham | -16% | 57 | 207 |
| Ashby | -21% | 23 | 245 |
| Ashfield | -25% | 12 | 277 |
| Ashland | -12% | 124 | 168 |
| Athol | 1% | 111 | 71 |
| Attleboro | -18% | 274 | 214 |
| Auburn | -4% | 146 | 99 |
| Avon | -18% | 31 | 222 |
| Ayer | -25% | 40 | 273 |
| Barnstable | -12% | 83 | 162 |
| Barre | -23% | 31 | 258 |
| Becket | 34% | 47 | 16 |
| Bedford | -33% | 91 | 319 |
| Belchertown | -20% | 113 | 230 |
| Bellingham | 5% | 137 | 59 |
| Belmont | -15% | 148 | 199 |
| Berkley | -36% | 37 | 332 |
| Berlin | -38% | 16 | 339 |
| Bernardston | -67% | 9 | 357 |
| Beverly | 5% | 277 | 54 |
| Billerica | -5% | 302 | 109 |
| Blackstone | -32% | 42 | 316 |
| Blandford | -29% | 10 | 301 |
| Bolton | -30% | 43 | 309 |
| Boston | -6% | 34 | 111 |
| Bourne | 2% | 190 | 65 |
| Boxboro | -40% | 24 | 341 |
| Boxford | -18% | 77 | 217 |
| Boylston | -20% | 28 | 233 |
| Braintree | -13% | 226 | 179 |
| Brewster | -4% | 131 | 98 |
| Bridgewater | -11% | 117 | 161 |
| Brighton | -38% | 28 | 336 |
| Brimfield | -31% | 25 | 313 |
| Brockton | 14% | 606 | 37 |
| Brookfield | -15% | 23 | 189 |
| Brookline | -24% | 146 | 269 |
| Buckland | -38% | 15 | 335 |
| Burlington | -20% | 142 | 240 |
| Cambridge | -20% | 111 | 227 |
| Canton | -22% | 127 | 255 |
| Carlisle | -21% | 53 | 247 |
| Carver | 9% | 98 | 46 |
| Centerville | 5% | 180 | 55 |
| Charlemont | -18% | 9 | 218 |
| Charlestown | 2% | 58 | 64 |
| Charlton | -20% | 82 | 243 |
| Chatham | -26% | 127 | 282 |
| Chelmsford | -5% | 261 | 103 |
| Chelsea | 71% | 29 | 4 |
| Cheshire | -26% | 20 | 284 |
| Chester | -9% | 10 | 136 |
| Chesterfield | 33% | 12 | 17 |
| Chicopee | -15% | 318 | 198 |
| Chilmark | -12% | 15 | 164 |
| Clarksburg | 56% | 14 | 6 |
| Clinton | 25% | 79 | 20 |
| Cohasset | -17% | 86 | 209 |
| Colrain | 200% | 12 | 1 |
| Community | Change | 2008 sales | Rank |
| Concord | -9% | 164 | 133 |
| Conway | -18% | 9 | 218 |
| Cotuit | -8% | 44 | 128 |
| Cummington | 0% | 5 | 73 |
| Dalton | 23% | 79 | 23 |
| Danvers | -5% | 180 | 104 |
| Dartmouth | -22% | 189 | 252 |
| Dedham | -3% | 232 | 96 |
| Deerfield | -5% | 35 | 110 |
| Dennis | -12% | 258 | 166 |
| Dighton | 18% | 58 | 27 |
| Dorchester | 5% | 176 | 56 |
| Douglas | -4% | 66 | 102 |
| Dover | -4% | 68 | 101 |
| Dracut | -2% | 181 | 91 |
| Dudley | 11% | 91 | 41 |
| Dunstable | 16% | 22 | 32 |
| Duxbury | -24% | 131 | 268 |
| East Boston | 6% | 36 | 52 |
| East Bridgewater | -10% | 73 | 147 |
| East Brookfield | 35% | 27 | 15 |
| Eastham | 17% | 115 | 29 |
| Easthampton | -29% | 108 | 308 |
| East Longmeadow | -16% | 163 | 205 |
| Easton | -26% | 151 | 289 |
| Edgartown | -26% | 61 | 279 |
| Egremont | -20% | 12 | 233 |
| Erving | -15% | 11 | 193 |
| Essex | -26% | 17 | 285 |
| Everett | 17% | 101 | 28 |
| Fairhaven | -11% | 133 | 160 |
| Fall River | 6% | 250 | 51 |
| Falmouth | -9% | 454 | 135 |
| Fitchburg | -7% | 230 | 120 |
| Florida | 0% | 4 | 73 |
| Foxboro | 8% | 120 | 47 |
| Framingham | 1% | 493 | 72 |
| Franklin | -16% | 237 | 203 |
| Freetown | -18% | 55 | 216 |
| Gardner | -20% | 110 | 229 |
| Georgetown | -19% | 64 | 225 |
| Gill | 33% | 12 | 17 |
| Gloucester | -3% | 151 | 95 |
| Goshen | -33% | 10 | 320 |
| Gosnold | NA | 0 | NA |
| Grafton | -28% | 110 | 297 |
| Granby | -15% | 40 | 190 |
| Granville | -20% | 8 | 233 |
| Great Barrington | 5% | 66 | 56 |
| Greenfield | -22% | 114 | 257 |
| Groton | -29% | 71 | 305 |
| Groveland | -20% | 44 | 233 |
| Hadley | 2% | 55 | 63 |
| Halifax | 38% | 58 | 13 |
| Hamilton | -18% | 61 | 212 |
| Hampden | 0% | 40 | 73 |
| Hancock | 0% | 7 | 73 |
| Hanover | -11% | 111 | 158 |
| Hanson | 5% | 79 | 53 |
| Hardwick | -8% | 11 | 128 |
| Harvard | -17% | 39 | 211 |
| Harwich | -8% | 232 | 123 |
| Hatfield | -9% | 29 | 142 |
| Haverhill | 2% | 327 | 66 |
| Hawley | 200% | 6 | 1 |
| Heath | -43% | 4 | 348 |
| Hingham | -32% | 190 | 318 |
| Hinsdale | -11% | 17 | 153 |
| Holbrook | 14% | 103 | 35 |
| Holden | -1% | 182 | 86 |
| Holland | 0% | 39 | 73 |
| Holliston | -37% | 114 | 333 |
| Holyoke | -24% | 141 | 266 |
| Hopedale | -13% | 41 | 176 |
| Hopkinton | -34% | 136 | 329 |
| Hubbardston | -47% | 24 | 352 |
| Hudson | -5% | 113 | 107 |
| Hull | 0% | 123 | 73 |
| Huntington | -35% | 13 | 330 |
| Hyannis | 42% | 205 | 11 |
| Hyde Park | -17% | 105 | 210 |
| Ipswich | -26% | 70 | 288 |
| Jamaica Plain | -22% | 63 | 256 |
| Kingston | -8% | 103 | 126 |
| Lakeville | -24% | 82 | 271 |
| Lancaster | -20% | 48 | 233 |
| Lanesboro | 0% | 32 | 73 |
| Lawrence | 19% | 198 | 26 |
| Lee | 44% | 56 | 10 |
| Leicester | -28% | 63 | 299 |
| Lenox | -21% | 34 | 248 |
| Leominster | -21% | 217 | 250 |
| Leverett | -14% | 12 | 183 |
| Lexington | -7% | 360 | 122 |
| Leyden | -13% | 7 | 171 |
| Lincoln | -13% | 49 | 171 |
| Littleton | -30% | 67 | 312 |
| Longmeadow | -20% | 176 | 242 |
| Lowell | 1% | 419 | 67 |
| Ludlow | -9% | 144 | 143 |
| Lunenburg | -1% | 91 | 87 |
| Lynn | 10% | 436 | 44 |
| Lynnfield | -24% | 117 | 270 |
| Malden | -10% | 177 | 145 |
| Manchester | -8% | 60 | 125 |
| Mansfield | -23% | 137 | 262 |
| Marblehead | -24% | 166 | 263 |
| Marion | -30% | 44 | 311 |
| Marlborough | 12% | 264 | 39 |
| Marshfield | -13% | 220 | 177 |
| Marstons Mills | 13% | 98 | 38 |
| Mashpee | 11% | 231 | 43 |
| Mattapan | 17% | 62 | 30 |
| Mattapoisett | 17% | 69 | 31 |
| Maynard | -2% | 83 | 94 |
| Medfield | -25% | 104 | 274 |
| Medford | -4% | 242 | 100 |
| Medway | -10% | 115 | 149 |
| Melrose | -25% | 186 | 275 |
| Mendon | -28% | 34 | 296 |
| Merrimac | -26% | 25 | 290 |
| Methuen | -9% | 307 | 144 |
| Middleboro | -13% | 137 | 175 |
| Middlefield | -67% | 2 | 357 |
| Middleton | -27% | 47 | 291 |
| Milford | 46% | 212 | 8 |
| Millbury | -27% | 80 | 294 |
| Millis | 8% | 71 | 48 |
| Millville | 45% | 32 | 9 |
| Milton | -3% | 256 | 97 |
| Monroe | NA | 6 | NA |
| Monson | -10% | 70 | 151 |
| Montague | -15% | 55 | 193 |
| Monterey | 0% | 19 | 73 |
| Montgomery | -57% | 3 | 356 |
| Mt Washington | NA | 0 | NA |
| Nahant | -6% | 34 | 111 |
| Nantucket | -34% | 97 | 327 |
| Natick | -16% | 250 | 201 |
| Needham | -27% | 320 | 294 |
| New Ashford | NA | 0 | NA |
| New Bedford | -6% | 372 | 117 |
| New Braintree | -13% | 7 | 171 |
| Newbury | 3% | 68 | 62 |
| Newburyport | -9% | 156 | 132 |
| New Marlboro | 7% | 15 | 49 |
| New Salem | -29% | 5 | 301 |
| Newton | -19% | 540 | 224 |
| Norfolk | -26% | 90 | 280 |
| North Adams | -1% | 77 | 88 |
| Northampton | 4% | 164 | 61 |
| North Andover | -23% | 185 | 259 |
| North Attleboro | -19% | 192 | 225 |
| Northborough | -29% | 100 | 306 |
| Northbridge | -11% | 100 | 154 |
| North Brookfield | 36% | 38 | 14 |
| Northfield | -39% | 19 | 340 |
| North Reading | -29% | 99 | 307 |
| Norton | -18% | 111 | 221 |
| Norwell | 1% | 105 | 70 |
| Norwood | -8% | 148 | 127 |
| Oak Bluffs | -31% | 36 | 314 |
| Oakham | 150% | 20 | 3 |
| Orange | -1% | 73 | 89 |
| Orleans | -13% | 90 | 174 |
| Osterville | -16% | 65 | 202 |
| Otis | 0% | 29 | 73 |
| Oxford | -25% | 88 | 276 |
| Palmer | -31% | 78 | 315 |
| Paxton | -5% | 39 | 106 |
| Peabody | -10% | 295 | 148 |
| Pelham | -23% | 10 | 261 |
| Pembroke | -26% | 116 | 286 |
| Pepperell | -19% | 66 | 223 |
| Peru | -40% | 6 | 341 |
| Petersham | 25% | 10 | 21 |
| Phillipston | -38% | 13 | 337 |
| Pittsfield | -10% | 394 | 150 |
| Plainfield | 0% | 5 | 73 |
| Plainville | -53% | 36 | 355 |
| Plymouth | -9% | 510 | 131 |
| Plympton | -42% | 15 | 347 |
| Princeton | -49% | 18 | 353 |
| Provincetown | 22% | 28 | 25 |
| Quincy | -12% | 393 | 169 |
| Randolph | 0% | 252 | 73 |
| Raynham | 1% | 102 | 69 |
| Reading | -15% | 192 | 197 |
| Rehoboth | -9% | 81 | 134 |
| Revere | 25% | 182 | 22 |
| Richmond | -40% | 12 | 341 |
| Rochester | -33% | 30 | 320 |
| Rockland | -28% | 93 | 300 |
| Rockport | -2% | 55 | 93 |
| Roslindale | -24% | 120 | 264 |
| Rowe | -33% | 2 | 320 |
| Rowley | -13% | 45 | 180 |
| Roxbury | -14% | 30 | 183 |
| Royalston | 9% | 12 | 45 |
| Russell | -40% | 9 | 341 |
| Rutland | 14% | 72 | 36 |
| Salem | -16% | 151 | 206 |
| Salisbury | -12% | 44 | 167 |
| Sandisfield | -45% | 11 | 351 |
| Sandwich | -15% | 230 | 200 |
| Saugus | 1% | 222 | 68 |
| Savoy | -40% | 3 | 341 |
| Scituate | 0% | 210 | 85 |
| Seekonk | -26% | 90 | 280 |
| Sharon | -11% | 165 | 159 |
| Sheffield | -29% | 30 | 301 |
| Shelburne | -15% | 11 | 193 |
| Sherborn | -6% | 47 | 116 |
| Shirley | -45% | 26 | 349 |
| Shrewsbury | -24% | 282 | 272 |
| Shutesbury | -50% | 11 | 354 |
| Somerset | -34% | 111 | 326 |
| Somerville | -12% | 83 | 162 |
| Southampton | -9% | 49 | 141 |
| Southborough | -21% | 75 | 249 |
| South Boston | -32% | 44 | 317 |
| Southbridge | 4% | 97 | 60 |
| South Hadley | -16% | 116 | 204 |
| Southwick | -7% | 71 | 118 |
| Spencer | -24% | 64 | 267 |
| Springfield | -20% | 935 | 231 |
| State median | -13% | ||
| Sterling | 15% | 70 | 34 |
| Stockbridge | -25% | 24 | 277 |
| Stoneham | -20% | 132 | 233 |
| Stoughton | 27% | 214 | 19 |
| Stow | -10% | 55 | 146 |
| Sturbridge | -26% | 86 | 283 |
| Sudbury | -20% | 181 | 241 |
| Sunderland | -18% | 14 | 213 |
| Sutton | -33% | 54 | 320 |
| Swampscott | -37% | 100 | 334 |
| Swansea | -2% | 123 | 90 |
| Taunton | -14% | 281 | 181 |
| Templeton | 11% | 62 | 42 |
| Tewksbury | -5% | 178 | 105 |
| Tisbury | -27% | 35 | 293 |
| Tolland | -20% | 8 | 233 |
| Topsfield | -14% | 44 | 182 |
| Townsend | -14% | 77 | 187 |
| Truro | 41% | 45 | 12 |
| Tyngsboro | -22% | 69 | 253 |
| Tyringham | -33% | 2 | 320 |
| Upton | -45% | 37 | 350 |
| Uxbridge | -6% | 81 | 114 |
| Wakefield | -7% | 181 | 119 |
| Wales | -71% | 5 | 360 |
| Walpole | -30% | 160 | 310 |
| Waltham | -11% | 290 | 155 |
| Ware | -7% | 75 | 121 |
| Wareham | -15% | 202 | 188 |
| Warren | 7% | 47 | 50 |
| Warwick | -42% | 7 | 346 |
| Washington | -33% | 4 | 320 |
| Watertown | -11% | 90 | 156 |
| Wayland | -9% | 130 | 136 |
| Webster | 5% | 111 | 58 |
| Wellesley | -15% | 330 | 192 |
| Wellfleet | -27% | 46 | 292 |
| Wendell | 67% | 5 | 5 |
| Wenham | -36% | 30 | 331 |
| Westborough | -20% | 141 | 232 |
| West Boylston | -14% | 54 | 183 |
| West Bridgewater | -15% | 57 | 191 |
| West Brookfield | -12% | 45 | 164 |
| Westfield | -5% | 285 | 108 |
| Westford | -29% | 155 | 304 |
| Westhampton | -38% | 13 | 337 |
| Westminster | -22% | 54 | 254 |
| West Newbury | -13% | 40 | 177 |
| Weston | -34% | 122 | 328 |
| Westport | -2% | 114 | 92 |
| West Roxbury | -26% | 188 | 287 |
| West Springfield | -21% | 213 | 246 |
| West Stockbridge | -6% | 17 | 111 |
| West Tisbury | 0% | 21 | 73 |
| Westwood | -22% | 142 | 251 |
| Weymouth | -20% | 318 | 228 |
| Whately | -15% | 11 | 193 |
| Whitman | 22% | 105 | 24 |
| Wilbraham | -12% | 143 | 170 |
| Williamsburg | -18% | 18 | 218 |
| Williamstown | 11% | 68 | 40 |
| Wilmington | -16% | 173 | 208 |
| Winchendon | -6% | 79 | 115 |
| Winchester | -9% | 226 | 130 |
| Windsor | -9% | 10 | 136 |
| Winthrop | -24% | 58 | 265 |
| Woburn | 15% | 229 | 33 |
| Worcester | -7% | 901 | #N/A |
| Worthington | -7% | 14 | #N/A |
| Wrentham | -27% | 83 | #N/A |
| Yarmouth | 18% | 441 | #N/A |
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