What Your Budget Buys in West Newton Right Now

West Newton runs from $179,900 to $2,995,000 across 215 active listings. That spread is not abstract. Your budget lands you in a category. Under $500K puts you in a condo, where the median sits at $469,900. Between $500K and $750K opens up townhouses, priced around $739,000 at the middle. Cross into detached territory and the median jumps to $1,425,000, with 94 houses currently on the market. The overall median list price is $895,000, which happens to line up with a four-bedroom home. Fifty-two listings sit in the $1M to $1. 5M band, the largest group here. One listing tops $2. 5M. Pick your number, and the type of home follows.

Push the ceiling to $750,000 and the choices shift under you. That $500K to $750K band holds 36 listings, most of them townhouses. Three-bedroom homes cluster here, 57 of them, with a median of $749,900. Move up again. The $750K to $1M band carries 43 listings, and four-bedroom homes land at a median of $895,000 with 23 on the market. The real weight sits higher. Fifty-two listings fall between $1M and $1. 5M, more than any other band, and that is where detached houses take over. Five-bedroom homes run to a median of $1,271,950 across 20 listings. Six bedrooms, 13 of them, reach $1,429,000. At the top, 38 listings span $1. 5M to $2. 5M, and exactly one crosses above that. Each step up the budget trades density for space. One bedroom sits at $394,000, ten listings, the floor of the market. Decide how many bedrooms you need first. The price band tends to follow.

Fifty-six of these listings came on in the last 30 days, so what you tour this week is not what shows next week. Pull the segment that matches your band. If you are near $469,900, focus on the 43 condos and check the strata fee, which runs about $414 at the median. Townhouse buyers around $739,000 should compare Suncreek Estates and La Costa Green, seven listings each. Detached at $1,425,000 means looking at the older stock, since the median build year here is 1992. Write down your number. Then book three showings inside that band before the inventory turns over again.