New Hampshire home prices hit a new record high in July – The Boston Globe
The median price of a single-family home in New Hampshire hit a new record high of $580,000 in July, as the state continues to deal with relatively limited housing supply, according to the New Hampshire Association of Realtors.
While that’s cheaper than the Greater Boston area, where such homes cost more than $1 million, it still represents one of the top-ranked pain points for Granite Staters grappling with broader cost-of-living concerns.
Bob Quinn, the CEO of the realtors association, said New Hampshire lawmakers made meaningful progress in 2026 on policies to allow for more housing supply. Their worthwhile recent changes include technical improvements to a 2025 law that requires municipalities to permit multifamily residential development in commercial zones, he said.
“Resolving the housing affordability crisis is going to take a multi-faceted approach,” he said in an interview. “There’s no silver bullet to any of this.” Looking ahead to the 2027 session, Quinn said lawmakers could help to loosen the restrictions that hamper construction of single-family homes by establishing state-level standards for the minimum lot sizes required to build.
“That is an issue that I think is ripe for exploration,” Quinn said, acknowledging the topic has proven controversial in the past. He also said lawmakers could adopt a policy to allow manufactured housing by right.
The idea might find renewed interest in light of federal housing legislation that Congress enacted this year with provisions to make manufactured housing more affordable, he said.
The number of homes available for sale in New Hampshire rose to 2,992 in July, which is the highest number since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the realtors association. That means buyers had more options than they did in recent years.
Josh Greenwald, the association’s 2026 president, said in a statement that New Hampshire’s inventory is still nowhere near what realtors consider a balanced market.
“While recent increases in housing inventory are a positive sign, the persistent shortage of available homes, especially starter homes, continues to place upward pressure on prices,” he said. “The record median sales price underscores the need for continued efforts to expand New Hampshire’s housing supply through policies that encourage the construction of homes across all price points.”
The most expensive area within New Hampshire is Rockingham County, which includes coastal communities and saw a median sales price of $700,000 in July. The cheapest area is in Coös County, which includes the state’s northernmost communities, where the median single-family home price was $269,900.
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