The median home in Townsend, Massachusetts is valued at $489,051, up 1.6% year over year. Townsend 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$489,051

+1.6%

Prices rising — worse for buyers.

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$97,810 on $489,051

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Out of reach49.8% of income

Need $133,371/yr to afford.

PITI$3,112

P/I49.8%

Afford$275K

Gap-$214K

P&I $2,473Tax $489Ins $150

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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