The story of this market
The typical home in Leicester, Massachusetts sells for about $550,000, or $299 per square foot.
Prices are up +9.42% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 78 days to sell, which is slow.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+2.5%
MA · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Leicester, Massachusetts
The Leicester housing market is currently in a balanced state with 2.2 months of supply, indicating equilibrium between buyers and sellers. While the median list price has seen a year-over-year increase, the market remains stable with homes selling at slightly above asking price. Certain metrics such as median household income and specific tax rates were not available for the city-level geography.
No ARED county foreclosure postings attributed to Leicester yet — the verified ledger covers every county the foreclosure ingest has read, attributed by published city area. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
Deterministic aggregate of 3 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Median prices moved up 1.9% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 20 days on market with 2.4 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
23% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 100.8% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · poverty 3.8% — a stable, low-distress profile.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Massachusetts) — Massachusetts Local Property Tax: Ad valorem tax calculated as (Municipal Budget / Total Assessed Value of all taxable property) = Tax Rate per $1,000 of assessed value. Assessments must be at 100% of full and fair cash (market) value.
Data retrieved from U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts.
The federal school roster could not be retrieved on the last refresh — no list is shown rather than an unverified one. Source: NCES EDGE public school locations 2023-24.