Central Massachusetts single-family home sales slowed in April, with Worcester County posting fewer transactions as median prices rose.
Worcester County recorded 390 single-family home sales in April, down 15.2% from 460 in April 2025, while the countywide median sale price rose 7.7% to $495,500, according to data from Peabody-based real estate data firm The Warren Group released Tuesday.
Middlesex County also saw a sales decline, though its pricing trend was softer. The county recorded 652 single-family home sales in April, down 4% from 679 a year earlier, while the median sale price slipped 0.6% to $880,000 from $885,000.
Central Massachusetts largely followed the statewide trend on declining sales and rising prices, with April’s data showing a return to market conditions seen before the disruption caused by harsh winter weather in February and March, Cassidy Norton, associate publisher and media relations director of The Warren Group, said in a Tuesday announcement.
Statewide, Massachusetts has seen 10,013 sales in 2026, down 3.3% compared to 2025, with the state’s median price rising 1.7%, to $610,000.
The city of Worcester posted 59 single-family home sales in April, unchanged from the same month last year. The city’s median sale price rose 4.6% year over year to $458,000 from $438,000.
Fitchburg and Leominster both saw sales decline in April, though prices moved higher in each market. Fitchburg recorded 22 single-family sales, down 26.7% from 30 a year earlier, while its median sale price increased 3.7% to $422,500 from $407,500. Leominster saw 18 sales, down 35.7% from 28 in April 2025, but its median price climbed 5.5% to $482,500 from $457,450.
In MetroWest, Framingham and Natick showed diverging trends in April. Framingham posted 34 single-family sales, down 5.6% from 36 a year earlier, while its median sale price declined 4.6% to $703,500 from $737,750.
Natick recorded 29 sales, up 45% from 20 in April 2025, and its median price rose 9.8% to $1.06 million from $965,000.
Eric Casey is the managing editor at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the real estate and banking & finance industries.
