What's your Newton home worth?

Newton's housing stock reflects the era each village developed. Around Newtonville, West Newton and Newton Corner you see Victorian and Queen Anne houses from the railroad suburb years, alongside Colonial Revival and Shingle-style homes. Nonantum and parts of Newton Upper Falls have more two-family houses on smaller lots, many now split into condos. Waban, Oak Hill and Chestnut Hill lean toward larger single-families from the early and mid twentieth century, and newer townhouse and apartment buildings have appeared near Washington Street and the village centers.

With so many villages, the useful questions are local ones. Walking distance to a D branch stop or commuter rail station, proximity to the Pike and its noise, lot size and whether a house has been expanded, and the condition of older systems all vary street by street. Two-family conversions deserve a careful read of the condo documents. When you want current numbers for a specific village, The Pettengill Group can pull recent sales and walk you through them.