Massachusetts

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Massachusetts

Metro: Boston-Quincy
What a Home Will Be Worth in 2012: $294,741
Q4 2008 price: $320,000
Projected price change by MSA: -7.9%
Projected price change by state: -3.2%

Boston is a historic city with large hospitals and world-class universities such as Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But while education and health services have been strong, the construction, leisure, financial, and transportation industries have all taken a hit. Home prices will begin to normalize in 2011 and be up more than 7% year-over-year in 2012.