Warren Group

In September, the city of Worcester saw its first dip in single-family home sales in several months with 119 total sales, a 17.4% decrease from September 2020.

In a 20.3% increase from August 2020, the city of Worcester’s median sale price for a single-family home was $349,000 in August, which is also $9,000 greater than July’s price. The city’s price increase is almost twice the state’s rate.

Massachusetts’ single-home median sale price reached a new all-time high in July, marking the fourth consecutive month average prices have surpassed $500,000, according to a report from Peabody real estate data firm the Warren Group.

Single-family home prices continued their steady march higher in and around Worcester in April, according to a monthly report from Peabody real estate data firm The Warren Group.

There were 3,026 single-family home sales recorded in Massachusetts in February, a 12.8% increase from the same month in 2020, and the highest number of sales recorded in February since 2004, although a number of MetroWest communities saw sales decline or coast.

The median sale price for single-family homes in Worcester surged 15.1% in August, compared to the year prior, according to a new report from Peabody real estate data firm The Warren Group.

From January through October, the number of two- and three-family homes sold in Worcester increased by 7% compared to the same period a year ago.

While Bay State home sales increased by less than 1% and median single-family sales price rose 3.5% in October, Worcester, Framingham, Leominster, and Marlborough bucked the trend.

The steady price gains that have become a trademark of the Massachusetts housing market continued for the Worcester area in September, but the contracting sales numbers lifted for the month with the number of sales increasing by 1.5%.

Median single-family home prices hit $268,250 in Worcester County in March, outpacing state price increases from last year, which across Massachusetts marked a record high.