What Homes Sell For in Amherst
The median recorded single-family sale was $500,000 in 2024, across 189 recorded sales. These are deeds actually registered, not asking prices and not listings.
Quarter by Quarter
Amherst Median Recorded Sale
$430,000Q4 2025, on 45 recorded sales. Hover to read any quarter.
Read the sales count beside every median. Amherst records about 193 single-family sales a year, so a quarter rests on roughly 48. At that volume a single unusual property moves the median noticeably, and a quarter-to-quarter swing is frequently the mix of houses that happened to sell rather than the market moving.
How Often Houses Change Hands
- 2.6% of the town's homes change hands in a typical year, which works out at roughly one sale every 38 years for a given house.
- Sale against assessment: the median sale of $500,000 sits against a median assessment of $537,100, a ratio of 0.93. A ratio below one usually reflects an unusual mix of sales rather than a market below the roll.
- County index: house prices across Hampshire County moved up 6.04% in 2025. That is a county figure and never this town's.
Amherst Recorded Sales by Quarter
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Arm's-length single-family deeds recorded in each quarter and the median price among them. Recorded sales, not listings or asking prices. A median on a small number of sales is an indication rather than a measurement, so the count is published beside every one.
| Quarter | Recorded Sales | Median Price |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2025 | 45 | $430,000 |
| Q3 2025 | 59 | $470,000 |
| Q2 2025 | 63 | $520,000 |
| Q1 2025 | 48 | $532,500 |
| Q4 2024 | 43 | $400,000 |
| Q3 2024 | 47 | $561,000 |
| Q2 2024 | 64 | $561,000 |
| Q1 2024 | 36 | $445,000 |
What These Columns Mean
- Quarter
- Calendar quarter in which the deeds were recorded.
- Recorded Sales
- Arm's-length single-family deeds recorded in the quarter. Read this before the median beside it.
- Median Price
- The middle recorded sale price that quarter. On a small number of sales this moves a long way on one unusual property.
Cite: RE413. “Amherst Recorded Sales by Quarter.” Updated August 5, 2026. https://www.re413.com/towns/amherst-ma/sold/, underlying sources at https://www.re413.com/sources/.
Putting a Number on a Specific House
A town median is a starting point and not a valuation. Check a specific address for its assessment, its last recorded sale, its lot and its year built. Then what the tax comes to at that price, which in this region varies more between neighbouring towns than most buyers expect.
For the regional picture, home prices across all 101 towns sets this town against the rest, and what just sold tracks the quarterly pulse across the region.
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The nearest towns to Amherst, each with its own figure.
Sources
- MassGIS standardized assessors' parcels. Recorded arm's-length single-family deeds and their prices, from the registries of deeds via each town's assessment roll, with the median assessed value for comparison.
- Federal Housing Finance Agency. The county house-price index annual change, a county figure and never this town's.
"Figures through" is the period the publisher's data describes; "checked" is only when we last asked. The full sourcing: sources and method.