Cost of homes in your area

In 2014, the median price of a home in Boston (city-wide) was $450,000.

The median price in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston was $7,375,000
(that's not a typo).

For Stoneham, it was $415,000. My little bungalow is well below that.

We paid $52,000 of our home in Sunnyvale, the Heart of Silicon Valley, in the mid seventies. It's now worth close to $2 mil. This area used to be cherry orchards. Who knew this area would become the high tech industry home to many of the big names like Apple. Apple is building their Campus 2 not one mile from where we live. It's saucer shaped, and will house 12,000 workers. We see the progress almost every day, because we drive by there regularly.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=apple+campus+2+progress&qpvt=apple+campus+2+progress&qpvt=apple+campus+2+progress&qpvt=apple+campus+2+progress&FORM=IGRE

Yikes! Talk about appreciation!