The most affordable Boston neighborhoods for buying a home at the start of March are Codman Square (in Dorchester), Mattapan, Hyde Park, Roxbury, Roslindale, and Dorchester overall, according to an analysis of market-rate listings from real estate research site NeighborhoodX.
These neighborhoods are comparable price-wise to Boston neighbors such as Chelsea, Quincy, and Medford.
Prices within Boston proper ranged from $137 a square foot in Mattapan to $3,857 a square foot in Back Bay, according to NeighborhoodX research director Constantine Valhouli. He added that the square-foot benchmark is not necessarily reflected in overall prices (but it is a more accurate measure).
A couple of notes: The Leather District only had one property, asking $799 per square foot, so the range was expanded to $798 to $800 a foot merely to have some width so it would display.
And, by popular demand, Dorchester, Boston’s largest neighborhood by area, was broken out by sections. This month, the average asking price in Dot’s Codman Square ($225 a foot) is more affordable than that in Mattapan ($269 a foot).
- A local’s guide to Dorchester, Boston’s largest neighborhood [Curbed Boston]