MARION A two-bedroom house of 3,794 square feet went on the market in Marion on Wednesday at $4 million, and the town's median single-family asking price rose to $1,172,000 from $1,099,500 a week earlier, the highest of any South Coast town. A four-bedroom house of 2,355 square feet was listed the same day at $1,495,000.
Marion had 35 homes for sale on Thursday morning, the same number as last Friday. Besides the two new listings, two homes from last week's count were gone from it, whether under agreement, withdrawn or no longer priced the same on both listing sites SC360 checks.
A slow, high-end market
Thirty-two of the listings were single-family houses, at a median of about $479 a square foot, and three were condos with a median ask of $1,149,000. Eighteen houses were priced at $1 million or more, the most of any town in the region. Only one was under $500,000, a three-bedroom of 898 square feet listed this month at $249,900.
Homes here stay on the market longer than anywhere else on the South Coast. The median listing had been up for 98 days, and 18 of the 35 had been listed for 90 days or more. The oldest, a five-bedroom house at $2,499,000, had been on the market for 355 days.
Two sellers cut prices this week. A six-bedroom house dropped $45,000 to $1,450,000 on Tuesday, and a five-bedroom house dropped $20,000 to $679,900 on Wednesday.
Sales and the monthly cost
The Massachusetts Association of Realtors counted five single-family sales in Marion in September, the same as a year earlier, at a median price of $1,075,000, up 36.9%. With so few sales, the monthly median can swing widely.
A buyer putting 20% down on a house at the median asking price would borrow $937,600. At the 7.24% average 30-year rate Freddie Mac reported Thursday, principal and interest would come to about $6,390 a month, about $51 less than at last week's 7.32% and about $665 more than at the 6.17% average a year ago.
At Marion's fiscal 2026 residential rate of $8.87 per $1,000 of value, a house assessed at the median asking price would owe about $10,396 a year, or about $866 a month. Marion's average single-family bill last year, $8,908 on an average value of $1,004,280, was the highest of the 15 towns, according to the state Department of Revenue. The fiscal 2027 rate is not yet in the state's records.
Label: Reported by us, from the town's posted records.
Notes
Every listing figure comes from SC360's own count of homes for sale on Redfin and Movoto on Thursday morning, Oct. 29, compared with the same count last Friday, Oct. 23. September sales come from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors, the rate from Freddie Mac's Oct. 29 survey and tax figures from the state Department of Revenue. We read them on Oct. 29. Payment and tax figures are our arithmetic: principal and interest only, and the tax on a house assessed at the median asking price. We checked each date and weekday against a calendar. No street addresses, owners or brokerages are named. Not heard: no comment was sought for this data story.
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Sources (5)
- Marion homes for sale, Redfin and Movoto listing searchesSC360's count of active listings that Redfin and Movoto (https://www.movoto.com/marion-ma/) both show at the same asking price, read at 5:45 a.m. Oct. 29, 2026, compared with the same count on the morning of Oct. 23; asking prices, square footage, list dates, days on market and price changes. Read Oct. 29, 2026.
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey (Mortgage Rates)Freddie Mac. U.S. weekly averages as of Oct. 29, 2026: 30-year fixed 7.24% (7.32% a week earlier, 6.17% a year earlier). Read Oct. 29, 2026.
- September 2026, Single-Family Properties, by townMassachusetts Association of Realtors via ShowingTime, linked from marealtor.com/market-data. Closed sales, median sale price and homes for sale, with the change from September 2025. Read Oct. 29, 2026.
- Tax rates by classMassachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services. Fiscal 2026 and 2027 residential tax rates. Read Oct. 29, 2026.
- Average single-family tax billMassachusetts Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services. Average single-family assessed value and tax bill by fiscal year. Read Oct. 29, 2026.