A three story Victorian house with a red mansard roof at the corner of Walnut Street in Fall River, with the tower of the old B.M.C. Durfee school building in the distance
A house in the Walnut Street Historic District in Fall River, which had the most homes for sale of the 15 South Coast towns this week. File photo, June 2007. Photo: Infrogmation, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

SOUTH COAST Sellers cut asking prices on 67 South Coast homes in the week through Thursday morning, by South Coast 360's count of listings, and the average 30-year mortgage rate fell for a third straight week, to 7.18%, Freddie Mac said Thursday. The other large cost of owning a home is set in town halls, and there the numbers have gone one way: the average single-family property tax bill rose last fiscal year in all 19 South Coast communities, state Division of Local Services figures show.

Over three years, the tax on homes has grown faster than the tax on business. Property taxes on residential property in the 19 communities rose 16.8% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2026, more than three times the 5.2% rise on business property, and the residential share of the tax grew in 14 of the 19, South Coast 360 reported Oct. 31 from the state's figures. Seventeen of the 19 taxed within 1% of the most Proposition 2 1/2 let them raise in fiscal 2026, while Somerset and New Bedford held about 98% of the region's unused taxing room, we reported Oct. 29.

From Monday, Nov. 9, through Wednesday, Nov. 18, councils, boards or town meetings in at least 10 of these communities take up tax splits, borrowing, utility money or zoning, and as of Friday only Rochester had a fiscal 2027 tax rate in the state's table. Below, town by town, is what each local government has done or scheduled that reaches what it costs to buy or own a home there, from the towns' own records and our earlier reporting, with this week's listings.

The market this week

On Thursday morning, 874 homes were listed for sale on both Redfin and Movoto in the 15 South Coast towns this roundup tracks, one more than a week earlier. The 67 price cuts, dated Oct. 30 through Thursday morning, were up from 62 the week before, and the median cut was $20,000, double the $10,000 median a week earlier. New Bedford had 20 of the cuts, Fall River 15 and Wareham seven. The median asking price for a single-family home fell to $625,000 from $644,950, while the price per square foot held at about $356.

A buyer putting 20% down on a house at that median would borrow $500,000. At 7.18% over 30 years, principal and interest come to about $3,387 a month, about $20 less than at last week's rate and about $318 more than at the 6.22% average of a year ago. Property taxes come on top. At last year's average single-family bills, they ran from about $341 a month in Wareham to about $742 a month in Marion, by our arithmetic.

This week's listings and last year's tax bills. Listings: South Coast 360's count of homes for sale on both Redfin and Movoto at the same price, Thursday morning, Nov. 5. Tax rates and average single-family bills: state Division of Local Services, fiscal 2026, the year that ended June 30. Taunton, Seekonk and Lakeville are not in the listing count. Berkley, the 19th community in our tax comparisons, is not shown.
CommunityHomes for saleSingle-family median askHome tax rate per $1,000Average single-family billChange from fiscal 2025
Acushnet20$672,450$10.45$5,244+$154
Dartmouth57$709,450$8.03$5,276+$245
Dighton30$775,000$12.45$6,689+$294
Fairhaven44$640,000$9.19$4,374+$140
Fall River205$507,450$11.48$4,651+$236
Freetown32$749,900$9.78$5,501+$234
LakevilleNot countedNot counted$9.74$6,097+$171
Marion29$1,099,500$8.87$8,908+$175
Mattapoisett32$949,000$10.24$8,244+$232
New Bedford182$449,000$10.95$4,653+$161
Rehoboth43$711,900$10.85$6,623+$208
Rochester24$744,900$10.59$6,745+$142
SeekonkNot countedNot counted$12.27$6,852+$406
Somerset21$577,000$12.93$6,278+$244
Swansea30$579,900$11.36$5,623+$381
TauntonNot countedNot counted$11.14$5,540+$390
Wareham83$599,000$8.56$4,087+$126
Westport42$799,900$7.28$4,931+$153

Fall River

Fall River had the most homes for sale, 205, up from 200, and at $263 a square foot the lowest single-family price per foot in the region. Residential property paid 71.2% of the city's property tax in fiscal 2026, up from 68.2% three years earlier, South Coast 360 reported from state figures: the city already puts as much of the tax on business property as state law allows, and residential values rose faster, 30.8% against 16.2%.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, the city's Board of Assessors voted 3-0 to recommend that the City Council again use a tax factor of 1.75 for fiscal 2027, the most state law allows, a recording of the meeting on Fall River Government Television shows. The council's classification hearing is at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Council Chamber at One Government Center, the city clerk's notice says. Last year homes paid $11.48 per $1,000 of value and business property $23.58, we reported Nov. 5.

The city has been taxing close to its ceiling. Its fiscal 2026 levy came within $15,806 of the maximum, and new growth the state certified lifts its fiscal 2027 limit about $5.9 million, to about $149.4 million, we reported Oct. 28. National Grid figures that a typical Fall River home using 600 kilowatt-hours pays $9.46 more a month from Nov. 1, taking its bill from $247.07 to $256.53, to fund larger income-based discounts, as we reported Nov. 1.

New Bedford

New Bedford held at 182 listings and kept the region's lowest single-family median asking price, $449,000. Of the 65 single-family houses for sale under $400,000 on the South Coast, 35 were in New Bedford. The city's home tax rate fell from $12.00 per $1,000 in fiscal 2024 to $10.95 in fiscal 2026, but its average single-family value rose from $356,973 to $424,920 over those two years and the average bill went from $4,284 to $4,653, state figures show.

New Bedford left $12.3 million of its fiscal 2026 levy limit unused, the most in the region after Somerset. Its Board of Assessors scheduled its yearly tax classification review for Nov. 5, the first step toward the council vote on splitting the levy between homes and businesses; the result of that review has not yet appeared in our reporting. On housing, Mayor Jon Mitchell has asked the City Council for a 10-year tax break for a developer who plans 47 market rate apartments in the vacant power plant and office buildings of the Nashawena Mill complex on Belleville Avenue, a project the city puts at about $20 million. The council's Finance Committee is scheduled to take it up at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9.

Taunton

Taunton is not in our listing count. Its average single-family tax bill rose 7.6% last year, the largest percentage increase in the region, to $5,540, and its home rate went from $10.94 to $11.14, state figures show. On Oct. 13 the Municipal Council voted 9-0 for a split tax rate and 9-0 to move $937,259 out of the Stabilization reserve in each of the next two years to cover the Taunton High School debt exclusion, which Chief Financial Officer Patrick D. Dello Russo Jr. told the council would cut the average residential bill by about $50 a year, the minutes show, as we reported.

The same night, the council voted 5-4 to raise sewer rates 5% on July 1, 2027, and a second 5% increase, for 2028, failed 3-6. In August it adopted a 5% water rate increase for July 2027, the first of four yearly 5% increases a consultant laid out through fiscal 2031, while mobile home parks billed through one master meter are set for a 30% lower water rate on Jan. 1.

Electricity costs Taunton homes less. At 600 kilowatt-hours a month, a Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant household pays $116.68 when it pays within 10 days, about half the $225.75 an Eversource customer in New Bedford or Freetown paid for the same use on standard service, by our arithmetic from each utility's rate sheets when we compared them Oct. 31. National Grid's own figure for a typical Fall River home at that use is now $256.53. The council has also banned data centers, and homeowners 65 and older or with a disability whose household income is $41,047 or less can apply to the city's Elderly and Disabled Taxation Aid Fund by Dec. 15.

Dartmouth

Dartmouth had 57 homes for sale and the most single-family houses priced at $1 million or more, 15. Its tax bills are on a different schedule this year. The town's state-required revaluation started late, so owners will get another estimated bill in December, due Feb. 1, and any change from the new values will land on a single fourth-quarter bill, probably mailed in May, instead of being split over two bills, town officials told the Select Board Oct. 26. If a bill goes up by $500, Town Administrator Cody Haddad said, the taxpayer would owe the whole $500 on one bill and would not know until about 30 days ahead. The town's revaluation contract with Vision Government Solutions is for $145,000, and the firm's project begins Nov. 16.

Last year Dartmouth's home rate was $8.03 and its average single-family bill $5,276, up $245. On housing, the Zoning Board of Appeals voted Sept. 17 to grant a comprehensive permit under the state's Chapter 40B affordable housing law for The Hathaway, 280 rental apartments off Hathaway Road, 70 of them permanently affordable. Dartmouth had 7.81% of its homes on the state's Subsidized Housing Inventory as of Aug. 19, 2025, 275 short of the 10% mark, MassHousing wrote. The developer still needs MassHousing's final approval before a building permit.

Fairhaven

Fairhaven had 44 homes for sale, up from 41, with a single-family median of $640,000, and its average single-family bill last year, $4,374, was the second lowest in the region. Town forecasts sent to the Select Board in September show budget gaps of $1.16 million to $1.66 million in fiscal 2028, rising to as much as $4.18 million by fiscal 2031, depending on whether Acushnet keeps sending students to Fairhaven High School, and a town Budget Working Group set out in October to study privatizing the operation of the wastewater plant, we reported.

The draft warrant for the Nov. 17 Special Town Meeting in the Select Board's Oct. 13 packet would move $540,323 left from two earlier sewer projects into the account for the sewer plant's nitrogen removal work, which the plant's discharge permit requires, we reported. Fairhaven's town electricity program charges 14.742 cents per kilowatt-hour because it adds renewable energy beyond the state requirement, and residents can choose a 14.346 cent option.

Acushnet

Acushnet had 20 homes for sale, up from 18, with a single-family median of $672,450. Its average single-family bill was $5,244 last year, up $154, at $10.45 per $1,000, and it is one of 11 South Coast communities that taxed business property at a higher rate than homes, state figures show. Its town electricity program charges 14.346 cents per kilowatt-hour, $17.86 a month less than Eversource's basic service for a home using 600 kilowatt-hours, we reported.

Westport

Westport had the lowest home tax rate in the region last year, $7.28 per $1,000, and charges that one rate to every class of property. Its average single-family bill, $4,931, was still higher than Fall River's or New Bedford's because its average home was valued at $677,349, state figures show. It had 42 homes for sale, and its single-family median fell to $799,900 from $849,450.

The Select Board on Nov. 2 settled on a $4.96 million first phase to move the Council on Aging and town offices into the former high school, a plan town officials said would likely go to voters as a debt exclusion, a vote that lets a town raise taxes above the Proposition 2 1/2 limit to pay a debt until it is repaid. The board held off on a design contract of about $48,000 for a new well at the Town Hall Annex, where Vice Chair Jake McGuigan said the town pays $6,400 a month to truck in water no one is allowed to drink.

Somerset

Somerset homeowners paid the highest home tax rate in the region last year, $12.93 per $1,000, or $1,293 for every $100,000 of value, and an average single-family bill of $6,278, up $244. The town also left the most taxing room unused under Proposition 2 1/2, $19.2 million. It had 21 homes for sale, down from 24, and no price cuts. The selectmen and assessors hold a joint classification hearing on the fiscal 2027 split at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at the Somerset Public Library, and the assessors have Appellate Tax Board cases for New England Power and Brayton Point on their books, their Nov. 5 agenda shows, we reported.

The town's Water and Sewer Commissioners want to meet the selectmen in December on how to pay for an overhaul of the sewer treatment plant that the town's engineers estimate at $76.3 million. The selectmen sent a data center moratorium to the Planning Board Oct. 28, and the Zoning Board of Appeals continued its hearing on a battery storage plant at 1606 Riverside Ave., next to the Stevens Street neighborhood, to Nov. 12.

Swansea

Swansea voters approved Question 10 on Nov. 3, 4,301 to 3,223 in the town's unofficial count. If the count holds, the bonds for a new Joseph Case Junior High School will be paid outside Proposition 2 1/2 until the debt is repaid. Before the vote, the School Building Committee estimated the added tax on the average single-family home, assessed at $494,954, at $141 to $200 a quarter over a 30-year bond, depending on the interest rate the town gets, if the project spends all of its contingency money, which the committee called "not typical," we reported.

Last year's average single-family bill in Swansea was $5,623, up $381, or 7.3%, the second largest percentage increase in the region after Taunton's. The town had 30 homes for sale, with a single-family median of $579,900. Its selectmen meet Tuesday, Nov. 10, with representatives of Edge and Prime Group Holdings to discuss an "Inference Point Facility" that could come to town, a possible artificial intelligence data center, we reported.

Dighton

Dighton had 30 homes for sale, unchanged, with a single-family median of $775,000. Its home rate last year, $12.45 per $1,000, was the second highest of the 19 South Coast communities after Somerset's, and its average single-family bill was $6,689, up $294. Dighton Water District voters meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Dighton Elementary School cafeteria to decide whether to move $300,000 of free cash into the district's capital improvement fund and spend $50,000 on service line work. The Planning Board will not bring a proposed pause on new large solar farms and battery storage sites to Town Meeting, its department manager said.

Rehoboth

Rehoboth voters decide at a special town meeting Tuesday, Nov. 17, whether to raise the town's Community Preservation surcharge from 1% to 3% of the property tax bill. On the average single-family home, valued at $610,445 with a fiscal 2026 bill of $6,623, a 3% surcharge with the $100,000 exemption the committee hopes to adopt would come to about $166 a year, by our calculation, and the change would also need approval from voters at the next regular election, we reported. The last day to register for the meeting is Saturday, Nov. 7.

The warrant would also ban data centers in every zoning district. Article 8, which a town official called the accessory apartment bylaw, is a zoning change; the Planning Board's Nov. 4 hearing, its notice says, was on a rule that would bar selling an accessory dwelling unit separately from the main house, and the board's action on it has not yet appeared in our reporting. The town is testing 39 homes on private wells within 500 feet of its North and South fire stations for PFAS, and the Finance Committee backed $300,000 for cleanup. Rehoboth had 43 homes for sale and the largest price cut of the week, $199,001, on a three-bedroom house now listed at $999,999.

Seekonk

Seekonk, not in our listing count, had the second largest dollar increase in the average single-family bill of the 19 South Coast communities last year, after Berkley's $451: $406, to $6,852, at $12.27 per $1,000. At its town meeting Monday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at Seekonk High School, voters take up borrowing of up to $9.75 million for a South End fire station and $1.75 million for a Hurley Middle School study, each written to take effect only if voters also approve a debt exclusion at the ballot. The warrant also carries a data center ban and $1.6 million moved into reserves.

Freetown

Freetown had 32 homes for sale, up from 29, with a single-family median of $749,900, and its average single-family bill was $5,501 last year, up $234. At a special town meeting Monday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. at Apponequet Regional High School, voters decide whether to put $250,000 toward a $1 million federal EPA grant to bring public water to the Transfer Station area, whether to put $1.5 million into savings for school repairs and other capital needs, and whether to allow data centers only in a new overlay district along Howland Road.

Lakeville

Lakeville, not in our listing count, had the largest rise in average home values in the region last year, 9.3%, and its average single-family bill was $6,097, up $171. Its Special Town Meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18, takes up a blight bylaw with fines and zoning for battery storage, along with a citizens' petition to bar town use of license plate readers. Lakeville is not among the 16 South Coast communities with a town electricity program.

Mattapoisett

Mattapoisett had 32 homes for sale, down from 36, with its single-family median at $949,000. Its average single-family bill was $8,244 last year, the second highest in the region, on a home valued at $805,060, and the town has used one rate for all property since at least fiscal 2023. The Select Board's hearing on the fiscal 2027 split is at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Training Room at the Fire Station, 62 County Road, and on Zoom. Every 10 cents on the rate works out to about $81 on the average home, by our math.

The state certified $51.7 million in new growth there for fiscal 2027, and homes made up about 75% of the tax it adds; the town's levy limit rises 4.3%, to about $30.4 million, we reported. At a special town meeting Monday, Nov. 9, voters decide whether to borrow up to $3,956,500 for a new Water and Sewer Department building. Town Administrator Michael Lorenco said that, apart from that building, none of the items will have "any additional impact on the tax levy."

Marion

Marion had the region's highest single-family median asking price, $1,099,500, and the highest average single-family tax bill last year, $8,908, on an average home valued at $1,004,280, though its bill rose the least in percentage terms, 2%. It had 29 homes for sale, down from 35, with no new listings. The Select Board and assessors continue the town's tax classification hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Music Hall, 164 Front St.

At a special town meeting Monday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at Sippican School, voters decide whether to spend $1,297,895 in sewer connection and infiltration and inflow fees collected from Marion Pointe on phosphorus removal at the wastewater treatment plant. The town also has a $2.09 million state HousingWorks grant to replace 3,200 feet of the 1928 water main under Wareham Road.

Rochester

Rochester is the only South Coast community with a fiscal 2027 rate on the state's books: $10.62 per $1,000, up 3 cents and its first increase since fiscal 2017. The average single-family bill this year is $6,957 on a home valued at $655,097, about $212 more than last year, and the town uses one rate for every class of property. Its assessors began state-required property inspections Nov. 2. Rochester runs its own electricity program, at 13.7 cents per kilowatt-hour through December 2027 meter reads, $21.74 a month below Eversource's basic service at 600 kilowatt-hours. It had 24 homes for sale, down from 27, with no new listings.

Wareham

Wareham had the region's lowest average single-family bill last year, $4,087, and the smallest increase of the 19 communities, $126, at $8.56 per $1,000. It had 83 homes for sale, up from 79, with a single-family median of $599,000, and the lowest-priced listing in the region, a two-bedroom manufactured home at $69,900.

Fall Town Meeting voted 113 to 46 on Oct. 26 to let the town lease about 7 acres at the sewer plant for up to 30 years. Scott Kraihanzel, director of the Water Pollution Control Facility, told voters the town pays "over a half a million dollars" a year to haul and dispose of its sewage sludge and that he hopes to draw a company that would take it. "I don't want to raise the rates," he said, pointing to the $36 million plant upgrade and a $27 million force main planned for Sandwich Road.

Rates

The 15-year fixed rate averaged 6.57%, down from 6.60%. The 30-year rate had risen every week from late August until it reached 7.40% on Oct. 8, and it held there Oct. 15 before this run of three declines. Freddie Mac's next weekly rate survey is due at noon Thursday, Nov. 12.

Label: Reported by us, from the town's posted records.

Notes

Every listing figure comes from our own count of homes for sale on Redfin and Movoto on Thursday morning, Nov. 5, compared with the same count on Oct. 29; new listings and price cuts are counted by the dates each listing shows. Rates come from Freddie Mac's Nov. 5 survey. Tax rates, average single-family values and bills come from the state Division of Local Services, read Oct. 28, Nov. 5 and Nov. 6. The Fall River assessors' vote comes from the city's meeting recording and the council hearing from the city clerk's notice. Each town's government actions come from our earlier stories, linked, which rest on the towns' own agendas, minutes, warrants, recordings and officials' statements. Payment and monthly tax figures are our arithmetic on principal and interest and on last year's average bills. We checked each date and weekday against a calendar. No street addresses of homes for sale, owners or brokerages are named. Not heard: no comment was sought from sellers or brokerages in this data story.

Corrections

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