Another month, another record in the Seacoast’s pricey real estate market.
The median sales price of Seacoast single-family homes exceeded the $1 million threshold in January for the first time.
Seacoast Board of Realtors statistician John Rice, an associate broker with Tate & Foss Sotheby’s International Realty, reported the median price was $1,087,500, a 25.5% increase from January 2025.
The month’s highest-priced sale was in Rye, where a five-bedroom, three-bathroom residence at 433 Central Road, a 15-plus-acre property, sold for $3 million. The circa-1960 ranch-style house is close to Jenness Beach.
Listing agent Tony Jalbert, principal broker at Tate & Foss, stated the property received interest from prospective buyers for possible development on the property’s open land.
“It’s my impression (that) hopefully it’ll remain open space,” he said.
Twenty-five single-family homes in the Seacoast sold for at least $1 million last month, smashing the previous January record of 13. The 25 million-dollar transactions accounted for more than half of the entire month’s single-family sales in the Seacoast.
“This is certainly a very positive way to start the new year,” Ryan Kaplan, president of the Seacoast Board of Realtors, said in a prepared statement. “Consumers continue to demonstrate strong confidence in the value of Seacoast real estate.”
Forty-eight single-family homes sold in the region, up from 38 that sold in January 2025.
23 Seacoast single-family homes sold for less than $1 million
No homes sold for less than $400,000 last month. Thirteen closed between $400,000 and $700,000, while 10 houses sold between $700,000 and $1 million.
To begin February, 100 homes were actively listed on the market.
The Seacoast Board of Realtors collects real estate transactions across 13 local municipalities: Exeter, Greenland, Hampton, Hampton Falls, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, North Hampton, Newmarket, Portsmouth, Rye, Seabrook and Stratham.
Condos median price nearly $600,000
Thirty-six condominiums sold in January in the Seacoast. The median sale price among them was $592,500, a 16.7% year-over-year jump, according to Rice.
Nine condominiums sold for $1 million-plus, a new January high. A home at 70 Maplewood complex in Portsmouth registered as the month’s priciest condominium, selling for $2.6 million.
One condominium sold for less than $300,000 last month. The Hampton unit, a one-bedroom, one-bathroom condo at 87 Winnacunnet Road, sold for $265,000.
Nineteen condominiums sold for between $300,00 and $600,000 last month, in addition to seven selling in the $600,000 to $1 million range.
Ninety-one condominiums were listed at the beginning of February.
This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald. Reporting by Ian Lenahan, Portsmouth Herald / Portsmouth Herald
