Stacker used Zillow’s November 2021 Home Values Index to rank the nine most-expensive cities in the Greater Boston area. 

Stacker compiled the list of the most expensive homes in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area using Zillow’s Home Values Index as of November 2021. 

Weston was the top-ranked Massachusetts town in the report, with a typical home value of $1,818,725, a 14.4% increase from 2020 and up 20% from five years ago. 

Just next door, Wellesley took the next spot, with a typical home value of $1,608,620, up 11.3% from last year and a 24% increase from five years ago. 

Dover, with a home value of $1,424,267, followed with a 14.8% increase from a year before and up 26.7% from five years ago. 

Lexington, Newton and Belmont followed. Lexington’s $1,345,094 home value increased 16.2% from 2020 and 30.6% from 2016.

Newton’s typical home value clocked in at $1,299,006, a 9.8% increase from last year and 28.7% above five years ago, while a typical home in Belmont is worth $1,294,634, a 13.4% increase from last year and up a notably 41.7% from five years earlier. 

Lincoln and Needham rounded out the list. 

Lincoln, where the typical home value is $1,283,241, had prices increase 14.9% from 2020 and 28.7% from 2016, while Needham home values averaged $1,227,115, up 11.5% from a year prior and 26.5% higher than five years earlier.