As Mick Jagger once sang, “It’s sure been a long, cold winter.” And that’s not conducive to buying or selling a home.
But people who are looking to cut a deal this time of year are generally “motivated” – they need or want to sell for a variety of reasons. So while there may not be as many people making the open house circuit on frigid, snowy days, folks who do brave the elements are serious.
Last month, 54 properties exchanged hands in Plymouth, with 22 of them (41 percent) going at or above asking price. That was down from December – before the deep snow and freeze – when 76 were sold. Nearly one quarter of those sales came from the Pinehills and Redbrook communities.
Single-family homes sold slightly faster last month than in January 2025. They were on the market an average of 65 days compared with 72 during the same month a year earlier. Condominiums moved even faster when measured year over year. They were on the market an average of 58 days in January compared with 80 in January 2025. Fourteen homeowners took their properties off the market between November and the end of December, “potentially for the holidays or for the winter,” reports Leon Lopes, a broker with Compass Real Estate in Plymouth.
The lack of inventory remains a chronic problem across town.
Sale prices also trended down in January, with just two homes going for more than $1 million, compared with seven in December. The median price was $620,000, and the average price was $616,960.
Real estate, like politics, is inherently localized, but it’s impossible to ignore national headwinds. Sales of existing homes across the country dropped by 8.4 percent from December, the National Association of Realtors reported, the largest monthly decline in nearly four years. Sales were off by 4.4 percent year over year.
It’s hard to say whether those figures were blips or an indication of weakening confidence in the economy. In a press release, NAR chief economist Lawrence Yan warned of the potential for “a new housing crisis” on the horizon.
“The decrease in sales is disappointing,” he said, but “the below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation [in] January make it harder than usual to assess the underlying driver of the decrease and determine if this month’s numbers are an aberration.”
Slightly lower interest rates, it seems, have not been enough to jumpstart the sluggish real estate market. For brokers, buyers, and sellers, spring can’t come soon enough.
January 2026 Real Estate Sales
1/8/2026 – 60 Bentgrass Mist – $1,363,661
1/29/2026 – 53 Standing Rock – $1,100,000
1/22/2026 – 30 Firefly Point – $978,712
1/15/2026 – 32 Firefly Point – $878,019
1/23/2026 – 65 Lakewood Dr – $850,000
1/7/2026 – 19 Mimosa Cir – $795,000
1/29/2026 – 28 Victory Ln – $792,800
1/2/2026 – 82 Conifer Hill – $785,000
1/8/2026 – 107 Shore Dr – $770,000
1/16/2026 – 12 Old Barn Rd – $736,500
1/30/2026 – 74 Champlain Cir – $725,000
1/23/2026 – 242 Hedges Pond Rd – $720,000
1/8/2026 – 7 Hat Trick Dr – $715,000
1/7/2026 – 79 Boatwrights Loop – $711,000
1/28/2026 – 21 Baldwin Cir – $710,000
1/20/2026 – 1 Matt Hoxie Trail – $705,000
1/21/2026 – 4 Millers Joist – $700,000
1/22/2026 – 25 Fox Hollow – $700,000
1/6/2026 – 81 Boatwrights Loop – $695,000
1/20/2026 – 15 Chatham Rd – $680,000
1/8/2026 – 375 Little Sandy Pond Rd – $675,000
1/30/2026 – 99 Shore Dr – $668,000
1/16/2026 – 5 Juneberry – $663,000
1/8/2026 – 30 Highland Ter Unit 3007 – $650,000
1/8/2026 – 393 Court St Unit 4 – $649,900
1/14/2026 – 24 Highland Ter Unit 2415 – $625,000
1/9/2026 – 7 Windsor Dr – $620,000
1/30/2026 – 21 Daisy Ln – $620,000
1/23/2026 – 66 Maureen Way – $615,000
1/8/2026 – 26 Goelette Dr – $600,000
1/28/2026 – 38 Hawley Ave – $589,375
1/5/2026 – 24 Drum Dr – $585,000
1/22/2026 – 40 Drum Dr – $575,000
1/23/2026 – 158 Bartlett Rd – $550,000
1/23/2026 – 110 Packard St – $549,900
1/15/2026 – 18 Lombard St – $549,000
1/8/2026 – 7 Sever St Unit 2 – $525,000
1/6/2026 – 42 Stockade Path – $515,000
1/20/2026 – 8 Westwood Rd – $515,000
1/9/2026 – 1 Maureen Way – $500,000
1/23/2026 – 57 Stafford St Unit A – $499,900
1/15/2026 – 14 O’Toole Rd – $497,000
1/29/2026 – 5 Tupper Hill Rd – $495,000
1/27/2026 – 44 Pisces Ln – $472,500
1/30/2026 – 12 State Rd Unit 4D – $445,000
1/22/2026 – 22 Chilton St Unit 1 – $440,000
1/28/2026 – 16 Leeward Way – $367,500
1/15/2026 – 4 Milford St – $350,000
1/23/2026 – 68 Miter Dr Unit 4-2 – $323,600
1/30/2026 – 86 Miter Dr Unit 1-2 – $323,600
1/6/2026 – 5 Marc Dr Unit A8 – $315,000
1/8/2026 – 5 Marc Dr Unit A5 – $299,900
1/16/2026 – 6 Chapel Hill Dr Unit 9 – $287,000
1/5/2026 – 12 Squirrel Rd – $250,000
Mark Pothier can be reached at mark@plymouthindependent.org.