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City-by-city price guide: Boston
The Red Sox's 2007 World Series championship was a bright spot in this city, where housing prices declined and foreclosures grew by nearly 200 percent. Home prices dropped by almost the same amount that job growth increased, according to Local Market Monitor.
| | Median price end of 2007: | $380,700 | | Median price end of 2006: | $388,000 | | % change: | - 1.9 % | | Projected change through Q3 2008: | - 6.3 % | | Affordability rating: | 7 | | Foreclosures in 2007:
(1 for every 146 households) | 5,106 | | Foreclosures in 2006:
(1 for every 439 households) | 1,705 | | Change in foreclosures: | + 199.8% |
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