Published October 11, 2026 in Market Update

West Roxbury inventory is up, but the market is still tight

By Juan Murray

Real estate, West Roxbury

More homes hit the market. That is the headline. But more does not mean loose. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 42 homes for sale in West Roxbury during the three months ending August 31, 2026. That is up 27.3% from the same period in 2025. Yet supply sits at just 1.3 months. A balanced market needs five to six. Nationally, Realtor.com reported 1.16 million active listings in September 2026, up 5.5% year over year. West Roxbury moved in the same direction, but it started from a much tighter place.

Here is what that number means for sellers. More competition is real. Pricing used to cover a lot of mistakes. It covers fewer now. The Real Estate Data Aggregator shows the median sale price in ZIP 02132 came in at $851,000, down 2.2% from the same three months in 2025. Homes that sold above list price dropped from roughly 46.7% to 41.7%, a 5-point slide. The average sale-to-list ratio still sits at 100.8%, so well-priced homes are holding. But the margin for error on price is smaller than it was a year ago.

Buyers got a little more room

Inventory rising 27.3% sounds like a big shift. In practice, 42 homes across a whole neighborhood is still a short list. Pending sales actually rose. The Real Estate Data Aggregator counted 92 pending sales in the period, up 10.8% from 2025. That tells you demand did not leave when inventory arrived. Buyers had more to look at and still moved. The Real Estate Data Aggregator also shows that 43.5% of homes went under contract within two weeks of listing. That is down 2.3 points from last year, but nearly half the market still moved in fourteen days. That is not a slow market.

The national picture adds context

Nationally, Realtor.com reported that price cuts hit 20.8% of listings in September 2026. That is the highest September share since 2018. Even so, national inventory is still 9.1% below pre-pandemic norms, per Realtor.com. The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported U.S. home prices rose 2.6% from July 2025 to July 2026. West Roxbury's 2.2% price dip runs slightly against that national trend. It is worth watching, but one quarter does not set a direction. Rates are not helping buyers either. CNBC reported the average 30-year fixed rate rose to 7.49% as of October 7, 2026.

What sellers should take from this

The market is still on your side, but not unconditionally. Ninety-six homes sold in three months. Pending sales climbed. The sale-to-list ratio held above 100%. Those are real strengths. The shift is at the edges: a few more days to sell, a few fewer homes going over list, a small price dip. None of that is alarming. All of it says price matters more now than it did twelve months ago. A home priced right in West Roxbury is still moving in 22 days. One priced wrong is sitting longer in a market where buyers now have 42 options instead of 33.

One more thing worth saying: the ZIP code number tells you the average. Your street can read very differently. A single-family on one block in West Roxbury trades at a different price per square foot than a condo two blocks away. The 22-day median covers a wide range of outcomes. If you want to know where your specific home sits inside these numbers, that is a different conversation.