Every number here says where it came from.
Haven95 is a public-record reference for buying and selling in the towns inside Boston's 128/95 belt. No algorithm's guess. No stranger who bought your zip code. Just the figure, its source, and the date it was pulled.
What we publish
A buyer guide, a seller guide, and a town compare for every town inside the belt. An affordability calculator, a closing cost estimator, a net sheet. Every figure in each of them carries a source line: what it measures, where it came from, and the date it was pulled.
The sources are public: the Norfolk and Middlesex Registries of Deeds, town assessor records, the U.S. Census, DESE, MassGIS. Nothing here is licensed from a listing feed, and nothing is estimated without saying so.
This is the line under every figure on Haven95:
$4.56 per $1,000 · Massachusetts deed excise, paid by the seller
As of September 2026Massachusetts General Laws chapter 64D
Why there is no instant number
A lot of sites will spin a dial and hand you a figure for your house before you finish typing the address. Haven95 does not do this. A home value request on this site goes to a person: a licensed Massachusetts broker who works the towns inside the belt, who replies within one business day.
When that reply includes a number, it is called an estimate, and it carries the date it was made. It is never called an appraisal, because it is not one.
An estimate is always called an estimate. It is never called an appraisal.
The towns we cover
Fourteen towns inside the Route 128 and Route 95 belt, held to the same depth of coverage: Dedham, Norwood, Walpole, Wellesley, Needham, Westwood, Canton, Milton, Sharon, Medfield, Dover, Natick, Newton, Brookline.
The belt is one commute, not one character. Dedham sits on the Franklin/Foxboro commuter rail line. Needham does not. Haven95 tracks that kind of difference town by town instead of folding it into a single regional average.
Start with your own town.
Every guide, every calculator, every town page carries its sources with it.