The median home in Somerville, Massachusetts is valued at $910,193, up 0.8% year over year. Typical monthly rent is $3,127, producing a price-to-rent ratio of 24.3x — well above the national average of 18x. Somerville is part of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area, which CrashWatch tracks daily with real-time stress scores and crash risk analysis.

Home Value$910,193

+0.8%

Rent$3,127/mo

Prices rising — worse for buyers.

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$182,039 on $910,193

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Out of reach90.6% of income

Need $242,700/yr to afford.

PITI$5,663

P/I90.6%

Afford$281K

Gap-$629K

P&I $4,602Tax $910Ins $150

Renting $2,536/mo cheaper ($3,127 rent)6.50% 30yr, 20% down, county tax + MA ins. 28% per HUD.

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Nantucket$2.97M Chilmark$2.28M Weston$2.18M Wellesley$1.95M Edgartown$1.77M Aquinnah$1.73M Dover$1.72M West Tisbury$1.6M

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