North of Boston · 5 towns
Sell your home north of Boston.
Kealan Green is a listing agent with The Avenue at SERHANT. — serving five towns north of Boston: Billerica, Woburn, Tewksbury, Wakefield, and Melrose. An estimated 2,464 homes change hands across the corridor each year, with median assessed values from $573K in Tewksbury to $799K in Melrose as of mid-2026.
The North of Boston corridor
Know the corridor before you price the house.
- Towns in the corridor
- 5
- Est. residential sales per year
- 2,464
- Residential parcels
- 54,798
- Owners 15+ years
- 37%
- Long-tenure share across the corridor — the owners most often weighing a sale.
North of Boston by the numbers
An estimated 2,464 residential sales close in a typical year across the five North of Boston towns — Billerica, Woburn, Tewksbury, Wakefield, and Melrose — based on public transaction records. Median assessed values range from $573K in Tewksbury to $799K in Melrose as of mid-2026, across 54,798 residential parcels, and 37% of owners corridor-wide have held their property for 15 years or more.
The north corridor runs up Interstate 93 and along Route 128, with commuter rail service on the Haverhill and Lowell lines. The housing stock is predominantly single-family — postwar colonials, capes, and split-levels — with Victorian-era stock concentrated in Melrose and around Wakefield's lake district. Woburn and Billerica add a meaningful share of two-families and newer townhouse construction.
Values across the five towns sit in a tighter band than anywhere else I work, which makes preparation and pricing discipline — not town choice — the main lever a seller controls. Many north-corridor listings are first sales in decades, and a home coming to market after long ownership needs a different playbook: strategic updates, honest pricing against renovated comparables, and marketing that sells the property rather than its dated photos.
The towns
North of Boston
Guide comingBillerica
- Median assessed value
- $601K
- Est. sales / year
- 627
North of Boston
Guide comingWoburn
- Median assessed value
- $673K
- Est. sales / year
- 558
North of Boston
Guide comingTewksbury
- Median assessed value
- $573K
- Est. sales / year
- 482
North of Boston
Guide comingWakefield
- Median assessed value
- $696K
- Est. sales / year
- 402
North of Boston
Melrose
- Median assessed value
- $799K
- Est. sales / year
- 395
Questions
Selling north of Boston, answered.
Which towns north of Boston do you cover?
Five: Billerica, Woburn, Tewksbury, Wakefield, and Melrose — an estimated 2,464 combined residential sales in a typical year. Detailed town guides are rolling out through summer 2026.
How do home values compare across the north-of-Boston towns?
As of mid-2026, municipal assessment records put median residential values at $799K in Melrose, $696K in Wakefield, $673K in Woburn, $601K in Billerica, and $573K in Tewksbury — the tightest value band of any corridor I cover.
How long does it take to sell a house north of Boston?
Preparation and pricing drive time-on-market far more than which of the five towns you are in. Once a home is ready and priced against renovated comparables, I map a realistic timeline for your street and property type in our first meeting — and steady corridor demand, an estimated 2,464 sales a year across the five towns, works in a prepared seller’s favor.
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Selling north of Boston?
One conversation — your goals, your timeline, and what your home can do. No pressure, no pitch.
Prefer to talk? (774) 341-4540