Prices for market-rate homes in downtown Boston ranged from $536 a square foot in the West End to $3,857 a square foot in Back Bay as of January 23, according to an analysis from real estate research site NeighborhoodX.
The site, in fact, dubbed the collection of neighborhoods it analyzed Shawmut Peninsula, after what became—through infills and annexations—the geographic core of Boston. See below for a more detailed breakdown.
Interestingly, a painful quirk of recent history made the West End an outlier amid these downtown Boston neighborhoods. Here’s NeighborhoodX research director Constantine Valhouli:
“With the exception of the West End, the average asking price in the Shawmut Peninsula neighborhoods goes from $961 a square foot in the North End to $1,507 in Back Bay.
“Notably, the West End is the neighborhood that was almost entirely destroyed during misguided urban renewal. Had the neighborhood been left intact, it would likely be priced on par with the other historic neighborhoods today.”
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