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Raw data sources: American Community Survey (U.S. Census Bureau), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Methodology: NeighborhoodScout uses over 600 characteristics to build a neighborhood profile… Read more about Scout's Real Estate Data
With 5,753 people, 1,705 houses or apartments, and a median cost of homes of $613,430, Brookline house prices are not only among the most expensive in New Hampshire, Brookline real estate also is some of the most expensive in all of America.
Single-family detached homes are the single most common housing type in Brookline, accounting for 95.92% of the town's housing units. Other types of housing that are prevalent in Brookline include duplexes, homes converted to apartments or other small apartment buildings ( 1.82%), row houses and other attached homes ( 1.02%).
Owner-occupied, three and four bedroom dwellings, primarily in single-family detached homes are the most prevalent type of housing you will see in Brookline. Owner-occupied housing accounts for 94.55% of Brookline's homes, and 84.97% have either three or four bedrooms, which is average sized relative to America.
There is a lot of housing in Brookline built from 1970 to 1999 so parts of town may have that "Brady Bunch" look of homes popular in the '70s and early '80s, although some of these houses were built up through the early '90s as well. There is also a lot of housing in Brookline built between 2000 and later ( 23.09%). A lesser amount of the housing stock also hails from between 1940-1969 ( 9.81%). There's also some housing in Brookline built before 1939 ( 9.36%).
Appreciation rates for homes in Brookline have been tracking above average for the last ten years, according to NeighborhoodScout data. The cumulative appreciation rate over the ten years has been 100.67%, which ranks in the top 40% nationwide. This equates to an annual average Brookline house appreciation rate of 7.21%.
NeighborhoodScout's data show that during the latest twelve months, Brookline's appreciation rate, at 7.26%, has been at or slightly above the national average. In the latest quarter, Brookline's appreciation rate has been 4.33%, which annualizes to a rate of 18.47%.
Importantly, this makes Brookline one of the highest appreciating communities in the nation for the latest quarter, and may signal the town's near-future real estate investment strength.
Relative to New Hampshire, our data show that Brookline's latest annual appreciation rate is higher than 60% of the other cities and towns in New Hampshire.
$613,430
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1,705
$4,018 / per month