The Gossip Report: Aug. 29, 2025

There’s waterfront living, and then there’s living on the water – the fourth home in this week’s roundup of Massachusetts’ most expensive home sales fits solidly into the latter category.

Nantucket Can’t Find Consensus on STRs

Nantucket’s thriving short-term rental industry offers benefits in a major source of local tax revenues and income for homeowners, but has attracted blowback in recent years for absentee investors’ role in the residential real estate market.

Meet Massachusetts’ Most Expensive Homes of 2022

The list of Massachusetts’ most expensive single-family and condominium sales of 2022 is very nearly a list of Nantucket’s most expensive home sales of 2022, despite numerous notable transactions involving Boston’s new luxury towers and high-end historic homes last year.

The Top Sales of 2020

The past year saw some truly monumental home sales. Here are the five biggest single-family sales by price and five biggest condominium sales by price according to The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.