The 02120.

With a month-over-month home values increase of 1.5 percent, the 02120 – which includes parts of Mission Hill, Longwood, and Jamaica Plain – is Boston’s hottest in Q3. In the month of September, Zillow‘s Home Value Index (ZHVI) for this Boston zip code came in at $389,700 – exactly $662,400 less than the 02108, a neighborhood including parts of downtown and Beacon Hill.

The current ZHVI is the highest in 10 years for the the Mission Hill-Longwood-JP zip. The 02120 has also experienced steep quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year ZHVI increases; the area’s QoQ increase of 4.6 percent is the highest in the city, and its YoY increase of 12.8 percent ranks behind only Mattapan (02126) and West Roxbury-Dorchester (02121).

The Mattapan and West Roxbury-Dorchester neighborhoods saw YoY ZHVI increases of 16.3 and 16.5 percent, respectively.

Unlike Mattapan and West Roxbury/Dorchester, however, rents in the 02120 are also rising, along with home values. Zillow’s Rent Index (ZRI) for Mission Hill-JP-Longwood in September was $2,681, a MoM increase of 0.6 percent, which was tied for the third highest in Boston.

Mattapan and West Roxbury-Dorchester saw MoM ZRI drops of 0.4 and 0.6 percent, respectively.

For a zip-by-zip – and neighborhood-by-neighborhood – numerical breakdown of Boston’s housing market, scroll through the data sets the Zillow crew was kind enough to package together for us. The first set – zip codes – is what we used for the purposes of this story; however, the second set might be easier for readers to assess, given that its data references commonly defined neighborhoods, rather than strictly defined city zip codes.

Boston Housing Data by Zip Code

Boston Rent/Home Price via Zillow

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