Boston Property Report — 2026-08-05

Furlong PA → Boston Area relocation · corridor land & homes plus southern-RI weekly-rental buy candidates. Each run is a fresh search; no day-over-day deltas.

39 qualifying corridor listings across all seven in-scope towns (23 active, 14 pending, 2 status-unverified) — Rehoboth MA is again deepest at 13 but fails the 10-minute rail rule, while Norwood MA and Mansfield MA each return exactly one listing, and the cheapest buildable entries are Atkinson Ave Ext, Stoughton MA at $99,000 and 0 Britton Ave, Stoughton MA at $100,000 (the only corridor lot besides Oak St, Attleboro MA with utilities described at the street). 16 RI beach-area rental buy candidates, heavily weighted to the Warwick RI shore where price-to-rate math is weakest, with Narragansett RI's 2024 permit-cap ordinance still frozen under injunction (Case No. WC-2024-0372, no 2026 ruling found) and the statewide 5% RI whole-home short-term-rental tax confirmed in force since 2026-01-01.

Criteria applied this run

Section 1 — corridor land & homes: 0.75–5.0 acres inclusive; vacant/buildable land, teardown-grade structures, or existing single-family homes; public water and sewer at street preferred but never disqualifying when unknown; ≤10 min to an MBTA Providence/Stoughton line station; ≤15 min hospital, ≤30 min highly rated library, ≤30 min Planet Fitness. Towns: Canton MA, Stoughton MA, Sharon MA, Norwood MA, Mansfield MA, Attleboro MA and Rehoboth MA. The manufactured-home requirement is dropped from this section.
Rehoboth MA exception: station drive times run ~18–22 min and fail the 10-minute rail rule. Included anyway, flagged, because it carries the deepest qualifying inventory.
Section 2 — beach-area weekly rental buys: properties to purchase and then rent out by the week. Condos, duplexes/two-families, mobile/manufactured homes (incl. parks and seasonal cottage communities), and small-square-footage houses/cottages. Near beaches and within ~15 min of a southern Providence/Stoughton line station, in areas where weekly rentals are already established.
All drive and walk times throughout this report are estimates, not measured routing results.

Section 1 — Corridor land & homes (0.75–5.0 acres)

Canton MA — 5 listings (5 active)

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
106 Indian Ln, Canton MA	$329,000	1.0	Vacant residential land, backs to conservation land	Not stated	Canton Center / Canton Junction ~5–8 min	~10–15 / ~5–8 / ~10–15 min	Residential	Active	Compass
888 Turnpike St, Canton MA	$1,100,000	1.8	Vacant commercial land on Rt 138	Not stated	Route 128 / Canton Junction ~10 min	~10–15 / ~8–10 / ~10 min	Commercial; 40% max lot coverage by right	Active	Homes.com
980 Randolph St, Canton MA	$899,000	0.78	Existing SFH, 4bd/3ba, 2,176 sqft	Not stated	~8–10 min	~12–15 / ~8–10 / ~10–15 min	Not stated	Active	Compass
1115 Washington St, Canton MA	$1,199,999	0.94	Existing SFH, 5bd/3ba, 3,029 sqft	Not stated	~7–10 min	~12–15 / ~5–10 / ~10–15 min	Not stated	Active	Compass
10 Union Ln, Canton MA	$2,199,000	1.19	Existing SFH, 4bd/6ba, 4,020 sqft	Not stated	~8–10 min	~12–15 / ~8–10 / ~10–15 min	Not stated	Active	Compass

Near misses excluded: 210 Dedham St, Canton MA (0.72 ac — just under the floor, and notably the one Canton parcel with both public water and public sewer confirmed); 480 York St, Canton MA (5.93 ac, over ceiling). Lot 0 York St, Canton MA and 35 Green Ln, Canton MA were dropped as stale/unconfirmed-active rather than guessed at.

Stoughton MA — 6 listings (3 active, 3 pending)

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
0 Britton Ave, Stoughton MA	$100,000	0.77	Vacant wooded lot; combinable with adjoining 46 Britton Ave, Stoughton MA	Sewer, water and electric “nearby” per listing; no gas	~5–8 min	~10–13 / ~4–7 / ~6–9 min	GB (General Business)	Active	Homes.com
West St, Lot 4, Stoughton MA	$449,900	1.76	Vacant buildable land, abuts Muddy Pond Conservation Land	Not stated	Listing claims “6 min from MBTA commuter rail”	~12–15 / ~7–10 / ~8–10 min	RB (Residential B)	Active	LandSearch
1600 West St, Stoughton MA	~$399,000 (one snapshot showed $349,000 — treat as approximate)	~1.6–1.65	Vacant land across from Ames Pond	Water, electric and gas at the street; sewer not mentioned (likely septic)	~7–10 min	~12–15 / ~6–9 / ~8–11 min	Not stated	Active	Zillow
1961 Washington St, Stoughton MA	$1,099,900	3.5	996 sqft bungalow + 4+-car garage/workshop — redevelopment candidate	Not stated	Stoughton station ~8–12 min	~10–15 / ~5–8 / ~3–6 min	General Business (GB)	Pending	Land.com
Atkinson Ave Ext (at Washington St / Rte 138), Stoughton MA	$99,000	1.3	Vacant commercial land beside Ford dealership	Not stated	~4–7 min	~10–12 / ~5–8 / ~3–5 min	Commercial	Pending	LandSearch
Corner lot, Atkinson Ave & Washington St, North Stoughton MA	$369,900	1.3	Vacant commercial building pad site	Not stated	~4–7 min	~10–12 / ~5–8 / ~3–5 min	General Business	Pending	LandSearch

Excluded: Washington St, Stoughton MA (5.3 ac, over ceiling); Lot 43 Pondview Ln, Stoughton MA (0.67 ac, under floor); 70 Hawes Way, Stoughton MA (4.53 ac but a 25,254 sqft commercial building — wrong property type); Lot 2 Pondview Ln, Stoughton MA (conflicting sold/active data); 586 Turnpike St, Stoughton MA (~2.18 ac SFH, inconsistent prices across sources, no fetchable authoritative page). A ~64-listing distressed/foreclosure aggregator page for Stoughton MA carried no acreage data and only non-functional links — unusable.

Sharon MA — 6 listings (4 active, 2 pending)

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
10 Cobbler Ln, Sharon MA	$575,000	1.99	Vacant development-ready lot, last lot in Layton Estates	Public water at street; private sewer; electric to lot line	Sharon station ~5–8 min (listing: “one mile”)	~10–15 / ~5 / ~15–20 min	RES	Active	Homes.com
190 N Main St, Sharon MA	$675,000	1.25	Existing SFH built 1900, 3bd/2ba, 1,761 sqft — “requires TLC,” fixer-upper	Public water; private sewer	~5–10 min	~10–15 / ~5–10 / ~15–20 min	“B” per MLS lot data — verify	Active	Homes.com
376 Mountain St, Sharon MA	$739,000 (cut from $774,000)	2.12	Vacant buildable lot; site plans, engineering and septic design included	Private water; private sewer (2019 perc test on file); electric at street; no gas	Sharon station ~8–12 min	~10–15 / ~5–10 / ~15–20 min	RES	Active	Homes.com
15 Wadsworth Way, Sharon MA	~$1,699,800 (recent $50K cut)	1.22	Existing SFH, custom Colonial, 4bd/4.5ba, 4,323 sqft, move-in ready	Not stated	~8–12 min	~10–15 / ~5–10 / ~15–20 min	Not stated	Active	LandWatch
7 Tisdale Rd, Sharon MA	$1,049,900	2.39	Existing SFH, 4bd/2.5ba, 4,270 sqft	Unknown	~5–10 min	~10–15 / ~5–10 / ~15–20 min	Not stated	Pending	LandSearch
580 Mountain St, Sharon MA	$1,050,000	1.84	Existing SFH, 4bd/3ba, 3,045 sqft	Unknown	~8–12 min	~10–15 / ~5–10 / ~15–20 min	Not stated	Pending	LandSearch

Sharon MA is the only corridor town this run with two separate parcels explicitly confirming public water at the street. Excluded: 16 Cape Club Dr, Sharon MA (23 ac); 131A Beach St, Sharon MA (0.1 ac); 22 Middlesex Rd, Sharon MA (0.24 ac, off-market); “Lot One/Two Old Wolomolopoag St” — actually in Foxboro MA, not Sharon MA.

Norwood MA — 1 listing (1 active, long-stale)

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
814–816 Neponset St, Norwood MA	$1,595,000 (a stale cached snippet showed $1,269,000 — unconfirmed)	2.79	Two existing older farmhouses (“former family farm”), marketed as a land package with potential for up to 5 lots, buyer to confirm with town	Public water at street; listing explicitly states private sewer/septic, NOT public	Canton Junction ~5–8 min (listing: “minutes to Canton Junction”)	~8–10 / ~10 / ~10 min	R40 residential	Active per direct fetch, but listed since 2025-04-14 (~16 months) — confirm live status before acting	Zillow

Norwood MA remains effectively empty. A full review of ~27 active Norwood MA single-family listings found the largest lot at 0.62 acres — everything else falls below the 0.75-acre floor. This is a real inventory result, not a search gap, and it is consistent across every recent run. Note also that Norwood Hospital's main campus has been closed since the 2020 flood; the nearby facility is Health Express ER, Norwood MA. Excluded: 0 Deerfield Rd, Norwood MA (6.21 ac); 0 Quail Run, Norwood MA (0.58 ac); 230 Richland Rd, Norwood MA and 92 Union St, Norwood MA (both confirmed sold despite aggregator caches still showing pending/active); “0 Charlotte Rd / Lot A” (ambiguous East Walpole MA address, and Lot A alone at 7.79 ac exceeds the ceiling regardless).

Mansfield MA — 1 listing (1 active)

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
1125 School St, Mansfield MA	$1,200,000	3.04	Well-maintained SFH with 60×30 barn/lean-to and heated pool	Unknown	Mansfield station ~5–10 min (listing: “minutes to commuter rail”)	Sturdy Memorial ~10–15 / ~5–10 / ~10 min	Unknown	Active	LandSearch

Mansfield MA inventory in the band is genuinely thin — LandWatch currently shows zero Mansfield MA listings at all, and LandSearch, Homes.com and Land.com sweeps surfaced only this one. Two notable near misses: 64 Otis St, Mansfield MA, a 3bd/1ba ranch fixer-upper untouched since the 1970s on 0.7 acres — an excellent fit on the teardown criterion but just under the acreage floor, and found via search snippet only with no retrievable listing URL, so treat with caution. 75 Fowler St, Mansfield MA (2.35 ac) appears to have sold 2026-04-27 for ~$1.1M and is off-market.

Rehoboth MA — 13 listings (6 active, 7 pending) · FAILS the 10-minute rail rule

Every Rehoboth MA address below sits ~18–22 min (est.) from the nearest Providence/Stoughton line station (Attleboro MA or South Attleboro MA) and therefore fails the rail criterion. Included per standing instruction because Rehoboth MA carries the deepest qualifying inventory in the corridor. Utilities are almost universally unstated here — these are rural lots, most likely private well and septic — and are marked unknown rather than dropped.

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
156 Rocky Hill Rd, Rehoboth MA	$229,000	1.99	Vacant buildable land, perc test complete	Unknown — rural infill lot, likely well/septic	~15–20 min each	RES; legal non-conforming lot, buildable	Active	LandSearch
72 New St, Rehoboth MA	$499,900	1.96	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandWatch
19 Cedar St, Rehoboth MA	$589,000	1.6	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandSearch
224 Perryville Rd, Rehoboth MA	$649,000	2.36	Existing SFH, good condition	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandWatch
275 Summer St, Rehoboth MA	$699,000	2.75	SFH ranch, move-in ready	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Res	Active (relisted — was briefly under contract)	LandSearch
245 Perryville Rd, Rehoboth MA	$724,900	1.5	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandSearch
34 Smith St, Rehoboth MA	$759,000	2.0	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Active	LandSearch
5 Victoria Ln, Rehoboth MA	$850,000	1.87	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandWatch
138 Chestnut St, Rehoboth MA	$949,900	1.39	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandWatch
6 Running Stream Rd, Rehoboth MA	$999,999	1.38	Existing SFH, 5bd/3ba	Unknown (not individually reverified)	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Active per aggregator	LandWatch
52 Round Farm Rd, Rehoboth MA	$1,100,000	1.51	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Active	LandWatch
48 Round Farm Rd, Rehoboth MA	$1,200,000	1.5	Existing SFH	Unknown	~15–20 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandSearch
15 Key West Blvd, Rehoboth MA	$1,249,000	3.01	SFH, 2009-built Colonial, excellent condition	Unknown — rural lot, likely well/septic	~15–20 min each	R	Active	LandSearch

Excluded as over the 5.0-acre ceiling: 339 Tremont St, Rehoboth MA (6 ac); 82 Hornbine Rd, Rehoboth MA (7.8 ac); 241 Perryville Rd, Rehoboth MA (9.5 ac); 70 Wheaton Ave, Rehoboth MA (118 ac). Note that 156 Rocky Hill Rd, Rehoboth MA at $229,000 is the only genuinely vacant buildable parcel in the whole Rehoboth MA set — the other twelve all carry existing homes, and seven of the thirteen are already under contract.

Attleboro MA and North Attleboro MA — 7 listings (3 active, 2 pending, 2 status-unverified)

Address	Price	Acres	Structure	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hosp / Lib / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
Oak St, Attleboro MA	$299,000	0.87	Vacant land, two combined lots	Public water AND public sewer confirmed — stubbed directly to Lot 15 per listing	Attleboro station ~5 min (“minutes from”)	~5–10 min each	GR-A	Active	LandSearch
23 York Dr, Attleboro MA	$374,900	1.97	Vacant land	Unknown	~8–10 min	~5–10 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandWatch
138 Washington St, Attleboro MA	$550,000	1.99	Vacant mixed-use/commercial land, previously approved for a 36-car lot	Unknown	~5–8 min	~5–10 min each	R1 with commercial use approved	Active	LandSearch
205 Paine Rd, North Attleboro MA	$675,000 (cut from $699,500)	4.89	Existing SFH	Unknown	~10–12 min — borderline / marginal fail	~10–12 / ~8–12 / ~8–12 min	Unknown	Active per aggregator; detail page redirected on fetch — status not independently reverified	LandSearch
141 Downing Drive Ext, Attleboro MA	$699,900	1.72	Existing SFH	Unknown	~8–10 min	~5–10 min each	Unknown	Pending	LandSearch
32 Thayer Farm Rd, Attleboro MA	$739,000	2.1	SFH, 1952 colonial, good condition; new oil tank and generator; new 5-bed septic being installed pre-closing	New private septic confirmed; public water unconfirmed	Attleboro station ~8–10 min	~5–10 min each	R1	Active	LandSearch
655 Allen Ave, North Attleboro MA	$749,900	1.9	Existing SFH	Unknown	~10–12 min — borderline / marginal fail	~8–12 min each	Unknown	Active per aggregator; detail page redirected on fetch — status not independently reverified	LandSearch

Attleboro MA remains the strongest town on the criteria as a whole — short station drives, Sturdy Memorial Hospital and the Attleboro Public Library both close in, and it holds the corridor's only parcel with public water and sewer explicitly stubbed to the lot line (Oak St, Attleboro MA). Excluded as out of band: LOT 8G Thacher St, Attleboro MA (5.3 ac, just over); 18 York Dr, Attleboro MA (0.47 ac); 933 Pleasant St, Attleboro MA (6.78 ac); 240 Smith St, Attleboro MA (24.3 ac); 219 S Main St, Attleboro MA (11.7 ac commercial); 366/0 Pike Ave, Attleboro MA (17.2 ac); 0 Pitas Ave, Attleboro MA (50.9 ac).

Section 2 — Southern RI beach-area weekly-rental buy candidates

Properties to buy and then rent out by the week — not places to rent. 16 candidates below.

Address	Town	Price	Type	Bd/Ba	Sqft	HOA / park fee	Nearest beach (est.)	Station (est.)	STR notes	Status	Source
6101 Post Rd, North Kingstown RI	North Kingstown RI	$120,000	Manufactured home	2/1.5	1,124	Not stated	Wickford shoreline ~10 min drive	Wickford Junction ~5–10 min	None noted; NK requires Town Clerk registration for stays under 30 days	Active	Homes.com
107 Keystone Dr Unit 116, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$269,900	Condo	2/1	733	Not stated	Buttonwoods / Warwick Neck ~10 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10 min	None noted; Warwick requires registration, agent within 50 miles	Active	Homes.com
400 Narragansett Pkwy Unit NB1, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$279,000	Condo	1/1	688	Included, not itemized	Rocky Point / Conimicut ~5–10 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10–15 min	Listing itself markets it as a rental investment	Active	Homes.com
70 Turner St Unit 2, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$335,000	Condo	2/2	1,180	Not stated	Oakland Beach ~10–15 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10 min	None noted	Active	Homes.com
30 Acorn Ct Unit G6, Wakefield RI	South Kingstown RI	$449,900	Condo	2/1.5	1,425	Not stated	South County beaches ~10–15 min drive	Wickford Junction ~18–20 min — over the 15-min target	SK rental registry, $300/unit for stays ≤30 days; no cap	Active	Homes.com
10 Stellar Way, Wakefield RI	South Kingstown RI	$459,000	Manufactured home, land-lease	3/2	1,700	Land-lease fee not stated	SK beaches ~15 min drive	Wickford Junction ~18–20 min	55+ age-restricted community — almost certainly incompatible with a weekly-rental model; verify before any offer	Active	Homes.com
65 New London Ave, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$485,000	Duplex / two-family	4/2 total	1,775	N/A	Oakland Beach ~10–15 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10 min	None noted	Active	Homes.com
700 Sandy Ln Unit 3, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$529,900	Condo, new construction	2/2	1,350	Not disclosed	Buttonwoods ~10 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10 min	None noted	Active	Homes.com
49 Seawynds Dr, North Kingstown RI	North Kingstown RI	$549,900	Condo	2/2	1,168	$261/mo	Rome Point ~10 min drive	Wickford Junction ~5–8 min	None noted; NK registration required	Active	Homes.com
74 Pontiac St, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$549,000	Duplex / two-family	4/2 total	1,408	N/A	Oakland Beach ~10–15 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10 min	None noted	Active	Homes.com
515 Davisville Rd, North Kingstown RI	North Kingstown RI	$599,000	Duplex / two-family	4/2 total	1,232	N/A	North Kingstown shoreline ~10–15 min drive	Wickford Junction ~5–10 min	None noted; NK registration required	Active	Homes.com
19 Wood St, Warwick RI	Warwick RI	$880,000	Duplex, new construction	4/4 total	2,400	N/A	“Moments from sandy shores” ~5–10 min drive	T.F. Green Airport ~10 min	None noted	Active / under construction	Homes.com
285 Gooseberry Rd, Wakefield RI	South Kingstown RI	$950,000	Small house + cottage	2/2 total	700 (cottage)	N/A	East Matunuck Beach — bike/walk	Wickford Junction ~20–25 min — over target	SK rental registry applies; two-unit structure is a genuine advantage for rental income	Active	Homes.com
194 S Pier Rd, Narragansett RI	Narragansett RI	$999,900	Duplex / two-family	4/2 total	1,728	N/A	Narragansett seawall — short walk	Wickford Junction ~20 min — over target	Narragansett STR ordinance under injunction — regulatory risk unresolved	Active	Homes.com
20 Narragansett Ave Unit 210, Narragansett RI	Narragansett RI	$1,200,000	Condo	2/2	989	Not stated	Narragansett Town Beach — walkable, under 5 min	Wickford Junction ~20 min — over target	Narragansett STR ordinance under injunction; at $1.2M for 989 sqft the rate math is very hard to close	Active	Homes.com
6 MacAlder St, Narragansett RI	Narragansett RI (Jerusalem)	$1,495,000	Duplex / two-family	6/4 total	2,358	N/A	Ocean — ~5–10 min walk	Wickford Junction ~20 min — over target	Narragansett STR ordinance under injunction; verify rental economics against price	Active	Homes.com

Not padded in: several $950K–$2.45M estates in Saunderstown RI, Wakefield RI and South Kingstown RI (wrong property type); a 32 sqft cabana unit at Bonnet Shores Beach Club, Narragansett RI; a Richmond RI mobile home (inland, no beach or rail fit); and two RealtyStore-syndicated mobile-home listings with no disclosed street address, which fail the mandatory address rule. Jamestown RI, Saunderstown RI and Bonnet Shores RI produced zero qualifying listings this run — Jamestown RI condo inventory currently starts around $1.2M, Saunderstown RI's only find was a $2.45M estate, and Bonnet Shores RI had no non-cabana residential listings at this snapshot.

Weekly rental rate benchmarks

Area	Segment	Weekly rate (peak summer)	Source
Narragansett RI	Market-wide average, all sizes	~$3,800/wk (ADR $545/night)	AirDNA
Narragansett RI	Cottage example	~$3,500/wk	HomeToGo
Narragansett RI	House example	~$6,200/wk	HomeToGo
North Kingstown / Wickford RI	Studio–1BR / cottage	~$2,400–2,800/wk	AirDNA
Saunderstown RI	2–5BR	$3,000–4,000/wk peak	AirDNA
Wakefield / South Kingstown RI	Market-wide average	~$3,200/wk (ADR $457/night); Awning cites a much lower ~$1,600/wk market average — treat the spread as real uncertainty	AirDNA · Awning
Bonnet Shores RI	2BR cottage / 3BR house	~$2,600/wk / ~$3,900/wk	VRBO-type aggregator snippets — anecdotal, not statistical
Jamestown RI	Agency weekly, mandatory Sat–Sat in Jul/Aug	~$5,000/wk example; ADR-implied town average ~$2,750/wk	JamestownRIRental.com
Warwick RI shore	Studio / cottage	~$2,200–2,800/wk	Aggregator snippets — anecdotal
Warwick RI	Town-wide average	~$1,840/wk (ADR $263/night)	AirDNA

Biggest data gap on the income side: AirDNA's freely accessible pages give blended town-wide averages across every property size from studios to 8BR, not bedroom-segmented figures; the segmented data is paywalled. Non-AirDNA numbers come from aggregator search snippets and are anecdotal. Read against the listings above, the Warwick RI shore is where this run's math looks weakest — town-wide average weekly revenue of ~$1,840 against $269K–$880K purchase prices, versus Narragansett RI at roughly double the weekly rate but with unresolved regulatory risk and much higher entry prices.

Short-term-rental rules by town

Narragansett RI — highest uncertainty, still unresolved. The 2024 ordinance (7-night minimum plus a declining permit cap, 1,100 → 1,000 → 900 by September 2026) has been under court injunction since 2024-10-02 (Judge Sarah Taft-Carter, RI Superior Court, Case No. WC-2024-0372, Narragansett 2100, Inc. v. Town of Narragansett) and remains unenforced. The most recent dated reporting located is the Narragansett Times of 2025-12-19, describing Town Council discussion of scrapping the ordinance and rewriting STR rules as a zoning ordinance instead — no vote taken, and no 2026 reporting confirming resolution was found this run. Verify the current docket status with the Town Solicitor and RI Superior Court directly before any Narragansett RI purchase.
Statewide RI 5% whole-home STR tax — confirmed in force. Effective 2026-01-01 per RI Division of Taxation Advisory ADV 2025-16, applying to any dwelling rented in its entirety short-term through any channel including Airbnb and VRBO. The local hotel tax also doubled from 1% to 2%, putting combined tax on short stays at roughly 14%. No rollback found as of 2026-08-05.
North Kingstown RI: registration ordinance (Ord. 23-19, Art. XVIII) requires Town Clerk registration for units let under 30 days. No permit cap and no owner-occupancy requirement found.
South Kingstown RI (Wakefield RI, Peace Dale RI, Matunuck RI): rental registry adopted April 2024 (Town Code §§9-200–9-210), $300 per unit for stays of 30 days or less, deadline extended to 2026-03-31. No cap found.
Jamestown RI: registration required since August 2023, $350/yr fee, occupancy cap of two per bedroom plus two, and a local point of contact who can respond within two hours. No numeric permit cap.
Warwick RI: STR ordinance since February 2023 — $250/yr registration, owner or agent must live within 50 miles, occupancy cap of two per bedroom. No cap on total permits found. Note: an earlier run of this report flagged a possible citywide zoning restriction on non-owner-occupied short-term rentals in Warwick RI; that restriction was not corroborated in this run's sources. Given how much of Section 2 sits in Warwick RI, confirm the current zoning position with the City directly before committing.

Explicitly excluded — cheap beach cottages that cannot legally be rented

Mary Carpenter's Beach Meadow, 854 Matunuck Beach Rd, South Kingstown RI — leased-land seasonal cottage colony. The association's own for-sale page states plainly: “On leased land, cannot be rented.” Listings on their site this run: Site 23 ($199,000), Site 30 ($235,000), Site 82 ($239,000). All non-rentable. Source
Roy Carpenter's Beach, 240 Cards Pond Rd, South Kingstown RI — 377 leased-land cottages. Official site: “To maintain our family atmosphere, no renting is allowed in our community.” The association purchased the underlying land from the Carpenter family on 2025-10-29, converting to community ownership; the no-rental rule persists under the new structure. Source

Both are exactly the trap they look like — cheap, beach-adjacent, and legally unusable as weekly-rental income property. Named here every run so they are never mistaken for finds.

Coverage & caveats

Blocked sources. Zillow was inconsistent this run — it rendered usefully for Canton MA and Sharon MA and for individual property pages (1600 West St, Stoughton MA and 814–816 Neponset St, Norwood MA both fetched fine), but town-level land-search pages for Norwood MA and the RI towns returned empty shells. Redfin was JS-gated in every town. Trulia and Movoto were not directly fetchable. Realtor.com could generally only be reached through search snippets. No domain was bypassed by any other means.
Unconfirmed inventory. Roughly 20–40 listings per corridor town sit behind the Redfin wall unverified, and an estimated 10–20% of active RI beach-town inventory (newer, exclusive or FSBO listings not yet syndicated to Homes.com) is unconfirmed. Because these aggregators largely share the same MLS feed — MLSPIN in Massachusetts, State-Wide MLS in Rhode Island — the hidden inventory probably overlaps heavily with what is shown rather than representing unique supply, but that cannot be verified.
Most productive sources were LandSearch, LandWatch, Land.com, Homes.com, Compass and Movoto for Massachusetts, and Homes.com plus first-party association and town websites for Rhode Island.
Utilities data is thin. Only three parcels in the entire corridor set explicitly confirm public water at the street — Oak St, Attleboro MA (water and sewer both, stubbed to the lot), 10 Cobbler Ln, Sharon MA and 190 N Main St, Sharon MA, plus 814–816 Neponset St, Norwood MA for water only. Everything else is unknown and flagged rather than dropped, per the standing rule.
Stale aggregator statuses. Several listings were excluded because cached aggregator pages showed “active” or “pending” on parcels independently confirmed sold — 230 Richland Rd, Norwood MA; 92 Union St, Norwood MA; Lot 2 Pondview Ln, Stoughton MA; 75 Fowler St, Mansfield MA. Two North Attleboro MA listings had their detail pages redirect to the town search page on fetch and are flagged as status-unverified rather than dropped.
All drive and walk times are estimates derived from road geography, not live routing queries. No mapping API was used.
Fresh search. Per the report standard this run was conducted from scratch with no diffing against prior days, and carries no NEW, PRICE DROP or GONE markers.

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