Medford Real Estate Market Review: 2025
Introduction
As we look back on 2025, I am excited to share with you a complete breakdown of Medford neighborhood data for:
Average rental prices for 1, 2, 3, and 4-bedroom units
Average sold prices for 2 and 3-family properties
Average sold prices for 1, 2, 3, and 4-bedroom condos
If you want to skip the high-level data summary and jump RIGHT to details on your neighborhood only, click on one of the links below:
Data Summary
This data could be valuable to you in several cases:
If you’re an investor or thinking about becoming an investor, these data points will help you figure out on a high-level what you can roughly expect for rental rates in various neighborhoods based on bedroom count for rentals as well as condos. You’ll also have a better understanding of what you’ll need to pay to purchase multi-family properties.
If you are a primary buyer looking for a condo, you should have a pretty good idea of what neighborhoods are likely to be affordable for you and which ones are likely out of budget or pushing it.
When you see fields that are marked “N/A” there were not enough data points for that specific category. Generally this means there are not a lot of sales or rented units for that specific property type. This is actually valuable information, because if you are looking in a category that is marked N/A as a primary buyer, it signals it may not be easy to find or what you’re looking for may not exist at all - in other words, there’s a good chance you’ll need to adjust your search.
A few quick caveats on the data:
The data is from MLSpin. Understand that there are many rentals that happen off MLS and are not covered in this data set.
No off-market data is included.
Some fields have N/A. That means we don’t have enough data for that neighborhood/property type
All neighborhoods boundaries were determined to the best of my ability, based on my personal opinion of the radius I consider to be relevant to a particular neighborhood
After looking at this data, are you concerned your rental is underpriced or overpriced? Are you curious about selling or investing in multi-families? Are you thinking of buying a condo and feel overwhelmed? Please give me a ring to discuss anytime at 617-833-7457. Read on for my thoughts and analysis.
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Neighborhood Deep Dive
Continue reading for my thoughts on each neighborhood. If you don’t want to scroll to find the neighborhood you’re interested in, just click on one of the links below.
South Medford
For the most part, we saw a softening in the South Medford rental market in 2025. 1-beds were the one silver lining, up around $400/mo from 2024 numbers, but 2-beds (down $100/mo), 3-beds (down $400/mo) and 4-beds (down almost $400/mo) all took serious hits compared to 2024 rental data. I attribute the Medford rental decreases to less international grads/PhDs and young professional renters feeling the financial pinch of a rockier economy.
The good news is that these rental numbers did not seem to impact South Medford multi-family sales. 2-families sold at $1.189, up a hair by $10k from 2024 numbers. There weren’t many S. Medford 3-families that sold in 2024, but a few did sell in 2025 and the average price was $1.7M, quite high for Medford and good news for multi-family landlords.
When it comes to condo sales, 1-beds were at a very low average price of just $321k, but 2-beds saw a significant jump, up $115k year over year. 3-beds were down about $55k and 4-beds came in at $1.032M.
As I said in my write up last year, I am bullish on the long term future of Medford - when you compare the prices of Medford condos, multis and rentals to their Cambridge/Somerville counterparts, there is quite a drop off in price and you get a lot more in quality units/decent commute times in Medford. I anticipate both condo sales prices and rental prices will jump back into growth mode in 2026.
West Medford
West Medford saw solid growth year over year in both rentals and multi-family sales. For rentals, 1-beds came in at $2,275 (not enough data for 2024), 2-beds came in at $2,686 (down $25/mo from 2024), but 3-beds were up about $200/mo from 2024, and 4-beds were up about $400/mo.
As more young professional renters are full-time work from home, places like West Medford where you can get more space and higher quality space compared to Camberville, start to become more attractive. The rental data demonstrates that some renters are refocusing their priorities towards quality/space over commute time.
We saw serious growth in 2-family prices in West Medford, with an increase of $160k year over year. 3-families came in at $1.375M, a very high number in my opinion for a part of Medford that only has a commuter rail and no T access.
Condo prices remained relatively low throughout West Medford - this seems to suggest that renters are OK with living in West Medford in higher numbers, but buyers aren’t so sure about settling in a neighborhood without T access and a so-so school system. I believe many condo buyers either choose South Medford / Camberville for better accessibility OR they break the other way and go further out in the suburbs where they can get more bang for their buck. In terms of prices 1-beds in 2025 came in at $473k, 2-beds $596k, 3-beds $758k, and 4-beds $1.065M.
If you are on a tight budget and a driving commuter, do NOT sleep on West Medford. I think it’s a great value if you are looking for easy access to Boston, Cambridge and Somerville AND value more space/nicer finishes OVER distance to T stops.
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And that wraps up the latest data and my analysis on Medford! If you want to discuss further, give me a ring/text at 617-833-7457 or shoot me an email at Sage@CambridgeSage.com.