Boston ranked top in the 10 for 2025 to buy real estate

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Boston ranked top in the 10 for 2025 to buy real estate

The top 10 ‘housing hot spots’

“2025 is expected to be a year of more opportunities” for both homebuyers and sellers, said Nadia Evangelou, senior economist and director of research at the NAR.

Boston ranked #1 on the 10 “hot spots” — although unlike those on other lists, none are in Florida. Three of the list’s hot spots are in the Midwest.

Here’s the full NAR list:

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Massachusetts-New Hampshire
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, North Carolina-South Carolina
Grand Rapids-Kentwood, Michigan
Greenville-Anderson, South Carolina
Hartford-East-Hartford-Middletown, Connecticut
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, Indiana
Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas
Knoxville, Tennessee
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, Arizona
San Antonio-New Braunfels, Texas

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/18/the-top-10-hot-housing-markets-for-2025-according-to-nar.html

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Boston ranked top in the 10 for 2025 to buy real estate

Boston has one of the best overall real estate outlooks in the nation for 2025, according to the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate report.

The report, by PwC and the Urban Land Institute, included interviews with more than 450 people and survey responses from 1,600 individuals in real estate, building, lending, construction, investing, property management and related fields.

Experts were asked to rate markets in categories such as investment potential and development opportunities, creating an overall real estate prospects score for 81 metro areas.

The areas with the best overall real estate prospects are, in order: Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Houston, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Nashville, Orlando, Atlanta, Boston, Salt Lake City and Phoenix.

The report also rated the investment prospects of various housing types on a scale of one to five, with five being the best. It gave single-family housing a 3.6, down slightly from last year’s 3.68 but up from 3.32 the previous year.