{"id":119,"date":"2026-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/25\/most-affordable-neighborhoods-to-buy-a-house-in-western-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T12:00:00","slug":"most-affordable-neighborhoods-to-buy-a-house-in-western-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/25\/most-affordable-neighborhoods-to-buy-a-house-in-western-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Affordable Neighborhoods To Buy A House In Western Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The three most affordable neighborhoods for home buying in Massachusetts in 2026 are all in Western Massachusetts. The top spot is Metro Center in downtown Springfield with a median house price of $159,039.24. Second is Westside in Pittsfield at $171,888.83, and third is Morning Side, also in Pittsfield, at $192,970.76. These areas offer significant value despite Massachusetts generally being an expensive housing market.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/live959.com\/most-affordable-neighborhoods-buy-house-massachusetts\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three most affordable neighborhoods for home buying in Massachusetts in 2026 are all in Western Massachusetts. The top spot is Metro Center in downtown Springfield with a median house price of $159,039.24. Second is Westside in Pittsfield at $171,888.83, and third is Morning Side, also in Pittsfield, at $192,970.76. These areas offer significant value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}