Watertown Median Tops $987,000 as Half of June Sales Clear $1 Million

WATERTOWN -- A Columbia Street sale at $1.9 million set the high-water mark for the recording period, anchoring a month in which all eight disclosed transactions cleared $737,000 and half surpassed $1 million.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Twelve deeds were recorded in Watertown between June 6 and July 5, 2026, with sale prices disclosed on eight of those transfers. Disclosed prices ranged from $737,500 to $1,900,000, with a median sale price of $987,500. Four transfers carried no disclosed consideration, including what appear to be an intra-family trust transfer on Jensen Road, a corporate-to-corporate conveyance on Mt. Auburn Street, and two other entity transactions. The eight-sale disclosed sample represents a moderate activity level for a single month; no comparative baseline is available in this dataset.
• TOP SALES
• The period's highest recorded sale was 23 Columbia St., which changed hands June 9 for $1,900,000. Sellers Christopher Ahlberg and Asa Aulin Ahlberg conveyed the property to buyers Mina Para and Abigail Giancola.

58 Ralph St. sold June 11 for $1,175,000. Thomas P. Shortt and Kimberly A. Costa sold to buyers Tara Conklin and Paul Anskat.

27 Gilbert St. recorded June 10 at $1,150,000. The sellers were Guild for Human Services Inc. and Protestant Guild for the Blind Inc.; the buyer was Gilbert Street CF LLC.

29 Laurel St. Unit 29 sold June 12 for $1,065,000, with Laurel LLC conveying to Joshua Goldstein and Berit Goldstein.

652 Belmont St. Unit 2 closed June 16 at $910,000, selling from Belmont Street LLC to Ryan Olney and Latanya Hutchinson.

• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• Gilbert Street produced two recorded transactions: 27 Gilbert St. at $1,150,000 and 24 Gilbert St. at an undisclosed price, making it the only street in the dataset with multiple sales in the period. Both buyers were LLCs — Gilbert Street CF LLC and Gilbert Street Realty LLC, respectively — though no further detail on property type is available from the deed records.

Among the four sales priced between $737,500 and $910,000, three were condominiums or unit-designated properties: 652 Belmont St. Unit 2 ($910,000), 11 Barbara Ter. ($900,000), 12 Chandler St. ($850,000), and 586 Pleasant St. Unit 8 ($737,500). The Pleasant Street unit was the lowest disclosed price in the dataset at $737,500.

The four sales at or above $1,065,000 — Columbia, Ralph, Gilbert, and Laurel streets — were all in the seven-figure range, reflecting the upper tier of disclosed activity for the month.

• MARKET NOTES
• Of the eight transactions with disclosed prices, four — exactly half — exceeded $1 million, suggesting the Watertown market continues to see significant seven-figure activity. Square footage data was unavailable for all properties, so price-per-square-foot analysis cannot be performed. At least two sales involved LLC sellers conveying to individual buyers (652 Belmont St. and 586 Pleasant St.), while two others involved individual sellers conveying to LLCs (24 Gilbert St. and 27 Gilbert St.), a split that reflects a mix of institutional and individual market participation. The June 12 transfer at 39 Jensen Rd. — from individual owners to themselves as trustees — follows a pattern consistent with estate planning conveyances; no consideration was recorded.