{"id":93,"date":"2026-10-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/massachusetts-makes-the-top-five-for-livability-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:00:00","slug":"massachusetts-makes-the-top-five-for-livability-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/massachusetts-makes-the-top-five-for-livability-strategically-priced-expertly-marketed-under-agreement-in-less-than-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Makes the Top Five for Livability | Strategically priced. Expertly marketed. Under agreement in less than two days."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/maher-khatib\/massachusetts-best-states-remotion-videos-cffd\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>A new livability study placed Massachusetts No. 4 nationally after comparing all 50 states across 51 indicators, including affordability, educational attainment and healthcare access.<br \/>\nMassachusetts stood out for education and health, with the nation\u2019s top public-school systems, highest health-insurance coverage, lowest premature-death rate and strong life expectancy.<br \/>\nThe state also scored well on safety and lifestyle, posting low property-crime and traffic-fatality rates, plus top marks for hiking, biking and transit.<br \/>\nAffordability remained Massachusetts\u2019 biggest challenge: the study ranked the state 48th for cost of living, 47th for homeownership and 41st for housing affordability.<br \/>\nStill, Massachusetts also had the nation\u2019s highest median income at $104K, helping explain why many residents see strong schools, healthcare and amenities as worth it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new livability study placed Massachusetts No. 4 nationally after comparing all 50 states across 51 indicators, including affordability, educational attainment and healthcare access. Massachusetts stood out for education and health, with the nation\u2019s top public-school systems, highest health-insurance coverage, lowest premature-death rate and strong life expectancy. The state also scored well on safety and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","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\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbcrealtors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}