The Long Price Memory

Four Counties, One Path, Rebased to 1990

1990 = 100 for every county (their records begin in different years: Hampden's in 1975, Franklin's in 1985, so the chart runs on the span all four share). Nominal: a flat line through the 90s was a real-terms decline.

Carry a Purchase Forward

A $230,000 purchase tracking Hampshire County's average path from 2004 lands near $448,000 in 2025: nominal dollars, no inflation adjustment. An index follows the county's repeat sales, not any particular house: condition, renovation and street are invisible to it. Not an appraisal.

The Milestones, County by County

• Berkshire County records since 1980

  ×2.8 since 1990 · ×2.7 since 2000 · the bust took −11% (2007→2012) · +64.8% since 2019, nominal, before inflation.

• Franklin County records since 1985

  ×3.1 since 1990 · ×2.8 since 2000 · the bust took −13.3% (2006→2012) · +67% since 2019, nominal, before inflation.

• Hampden County records since 1975

  ×2.7 since 1990 · ×2.7 since 2000 · the bust took −15.2% (2007→2012) · +60.3% since 2019, nominal, before inflation.

• Hampshire County records since 1978

  ×3.2 since 1990 · ×2.8 since 2000 · the bust took −10.6% (2007→2012) · +57.2% since 2019, nominal, before inflation.

What sold last quarter, town by town, is on What Just Sold, this page is its fifty-year memory.

From the Desk

RE413 News on this subject: what fifty years of prices say about timing. Every piece is built from the same public record as the figures above, and states the period each covers.