Boston Property Report — 2026-08-31

Furlong PA → Boston Area relocation. Fresh search each run — no day-over-day deltas.

24 corridor land & home listings on 0.75–5.0 acres (13 active, 10 pending, 1 newly flagged as a live source conflict), 14 RI beach-area weekly-rental buy candidates and 22 duplex entries (12 MA, 10 RI) — Rehoboth MA is again far and away the deepest corridor market at 11 listings against Sharon MA 4, Stoughton MA 3, Canton MA 2, Attleboro MA 2, Norwood MA 1 and Mansfield MA 1, Attleboro MA is again the deepest duplex market at 6 with Norwood MA, Warwick RI and Warren RI tied at 3 each, and Sharon MA / Stoughton MA / Jamestown RI / Barrington RI / Bonnet Shores RI / Saunderstown RI are confirmed duplex zeros. Three reversals of prior findings this run: Rehoboth MA is NOT a duplex zero (38 Dean St, Rehoboth MA, $574,900, teardown-grade on 1.8 acres), Norwood MA is NOT a corridor zero on inventory though it remains zero on active inventory (230 Richland Rd, Norwood MA, $679,900, 1.24 ac, under contract), and 106 Indian Ln, Canton MA resurfaced with a hard source conflict — LandSearch carries it active at $329,000 / 1.00 ac while Boston Pads carries the fuller MLS history showing it CANCELED on 2026-08-19. 145 Winthrop St, Rehoboth MA holds as the cheapest active buildable parcel at $219,900 for 3.18 perc'd acres with public water and an approved 4-bedroom septic design, 156 Rocky Hill Rd, Rehoboth MA holds unchanged at $229,000 active but its utilities are recorded as "Other" and are NOT confirmed public, 0 Read St, Attleboro MA again did not surface and stays off-market, and 138 Washington St, Attleboro MA is newly and explicitly CONFIRMED off-market by LoopNet's own delisting notice. One genuinely new corridor find: 0 Oak Street, Attleboro MA (MLS 73526161) is a two-lot package whose Lot 15 is shovel-ready with public water AND public sewer stubbed to the lot — the only full-public-utility parcel surfaced in this entire sweep — but its price and status could not be confirmed behind JS-gated broker pages. Two prior findings are downgraded on evidence: Narragansett RI's duplex ban is confirmed as a real but unadopted and contested proposal (Providence Journal, 2024-04-17; Town Council took no action, and the Planning Board voted 4–1 against related zoning restructuring in April 2025), not a pending ban; and Mary Carpenter's / Carpenter's Beach Meadow, 854 Matunuck Beach Rd, South Kingstown RI could NOT be re-confirmed as an explicit no-rental community this run and is downgraded to "verify with the association." Roy Carpenter's Beach, 240 Cards Pond Rd, South Kingstown RI and Knowles Camp, Narragansett RI remain verbatim-confirmed no-rental; Buttonwoods Campground, Warwick RI remains UNRESOLVED for a fourth run. RI's 5% whole-home STR tax is for the first time confirmed from the primary source (RI Division of Taxation Notice 2025-09) alongside the local hotel tax rise from 1% to 2%, Warwick RI's R-6/R-10 non-owner-occupied STR bar is again secondary-source-only with Municode JS-gated, and the Narragansett RI permit cap remains enjoined with no final ruling. Norwood Hospital is re-confirmed closed — with Massachusetts emergency legislation passed in August 2026 to speed the site's revitalization and operators reportedly in talks, but no reopening — so the 15-minute hospital rule still fails corridor-wide across the four northern towns. Two Warwick RI / Wakefield RI manufactured-home communities are newly flagged as structurally unusable for the weekly-rental model on 55+ age restrictions. Source-gating was UNIFORM this run, reversing the last two runs: Zillow and Redfin were JS-gated on all three sweeps simultaneously.

Criteria in force this run

Section 1 — corridor land & homes: 0.75 to 5.0 acres inclusive. Vacant/buildable land, teardown-grade structures, or existing single-family homes. Public water AND sewer at the street preferred, recorded per parcel but never a disqualifier. ≤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 (Bill's decision, 2026-07-31).
Rehoboth MA exception: station drive times run ~17–21 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 BUY and then rent out by the week. Condos, duplexes/two-families, mobile/manufactured homes, and small-square-footage houses/cottages. Near beaches and within ~15 min of a Providence/Stoughton line station, in areas where weekly vacation rentals are already established.
Section 3 — dwelling-unit duplexes: two separate living units with private entrances, owner-occupant strategy. No acreage cap, no price cap, no minimum room count, across the full combined MA + RI footprint.
All drive and walk times below are estimates. Every address carries its two-letter state code.

Section 1 — Corridor Land & Homes (0.75–5.0 acres)

Northern corridor — Canton MA, Stoughton MA, Sharon MA, Norwood MA

Address	Price	Acres	Condition	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hospital / Library / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
106 Indian Ln, Canton MA 02021	$329,000 (last asking)	1.00	Vacant land, wooded, abuts conservation land	Public water; PRIVATE sewer (septic); electric at street, no gas	Canton Junction MA (P/S line) ~5–8 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~15–20 min (fails) / Canton Public Library ~5–8 min / PF Stoughton MA ~10–15 min	Residential	SOURCE CONFLICT — LandSearch shows Active; Boston Pads MLS history shows CANCELED 2026-08-19	LandSearch / Boston Pads
9 Chief Ln, Canton MA 02021	$399,900	2.77	Vacant land, cul-de-sac, approved subdivision lot, wetlands present	Public water; private sewer (septic); electric at street	Canton Junction MA (P/S line) ~5–8 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~15–20 min (fails) / Canton Public Library ~5–8 min / PF Stoughton MA ~10–15 min	Residential	Active (listed 2026-08-18)	Boston Pads
West St (Lot 4), Stoughton MA 02072	$449,900	1.76	Vacant land, abuts Muddy Pond Conservation Land	Unknown — not stated in listing	Stoughton MA (P/S line terminus) ~6 min per listing copy	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~12–18 min (fails) / Stoughton Public Library ~5–10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~5–10 min	RB (Residential B)	Active	LandSearch
Atkinson Avenue Ext, Stoughton MA 02072	$99,000	1.30	Vacant corner lot	Unknown	Stoughton MA (P/S line) ~5–10 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~12–18 min (fails) / Stoughton Public Library ~5–10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~5–10 min	Commercial	Pending	LandSearch
Cnr Atkinson Ave & Washington St, Stoughton MA 02072	$369,900	1.30	Vacant land	Unknown	Stoughton MA (P/S line) ~5–10 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~12–18 min (fails) / Stoughton Public Library ~5–10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~5–10 min	General Business	Pending	LandSearch
376 Mountain St, Sharon MA 02067	$719,900	2.12	Vacant land — engineering, septic design and house plans included	Unknown; septic design complete, not stated as public	Sharon MA (P/S line) ~8–12 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~15–20 min (fails) / Sharon Public Library ~8–10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~12–15 min	Residential (ANR lot)	Active	Land.com
190 N Main St, Sharon MA 02067	$675,000	1.25	Existing SFH 3bd/2ba, 1,761 sf — dated, "needs TLC", furnace/electrical updated 2024. Fixer, not teardown	Unknown	Sharon MA (P/S line) ~5–10 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~15–20 min (fails) / Sharon Public Library ~8–10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~12–15 min	Residential	Active	Land.com
0 East Foxboro St, Sharon MA 02067	$375,000	2.14 total (~1.48 in Sharon MA, ~0.66 in Foxboro MA)	Vacant land, approved 2009, potential 2-lot split. Parcel straddles the Sharon/Foxboro MA town line	Private water, private sewer; electric nearby	Sharon MA (P/S line) ~8–12 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~15–20 min (fails) / Sharon Public Library ~10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~12–15 min	Residential	Active (5 days on market)	Boston Pads
15 Wadsworth Way, Sharon MA 02067	$1,699,800	1.22	Existing SFH 4bd/4ba, 4,302 sf — high-end, not teardown	Unknown	Sharon MA (P/S line) ~8–12 min	Good Samaritan Brockton MA ~15–20 min (fails) / Sharon Public Library ~8–10 min / PF Stoughton MA ~12–15 min	Residential	Pending	Land.com
230 Richland Rd, Norwood MA 02062	$679,900	1.24	Existing SFH 3bd/1.5ba, 1,540 sf, well-maintained cape — NOT teardown	Unknown	Norwood MA's own stations are FRANKLIN line, not P/S. Nearest P/S station is Canton Junction MA ~10–15 min	Norwood Hospital CLOSED; nearest open ~15–20 min (fails) / Morrill Memorial Library ~5–8 min / PF Norwood MA ~5–8 min	Residential	Under contract / Pending	LandWatch

Norwood MA remains a corridor zero on ACTIVE inventory. The single in-band Norwood MA listing found (230 Richland Rd) is already under contract. Norwood MA also fails the rail criterion structurally, not just on acreage — Norwood Central, Norwood Depot and Windsor Gardens are all on the Franklin/Foxboro line, re-verified this run against MBTA.com.

Southern corridor — Mansfield MA, Attleboro MA, Rehoboth MA

Address	Price	Acres	Condition	Utilities	Station (est.)	Hospital / Library / PF (est.)	Zoning	Status	Source
145 Winthrop St, Rehoboth MA 02769	$219,900 — cheapest active buildable parcel this run	3.18	Vacant land; approved septic design for a 4-bedroom home, PERC passed	Public water; private sewer (approved 4-bed septic design)	Attleboro MA ~18–20 min (fails 10-min rule — Rehoboth MA exception)	Sturdy Memorial ~18 min (fails) / Blanding Public Library ~10 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~20 min	Split Res/Bus — front Business, rear Residential	Active (relisted 2026-08-24, MLS 73567377)	Homes.com
156 Rocky Hill Rd, Rehoboth MA 02769	$229,000	1.99	Vacant, buildable, legal non-conforming lot; perc complete 2017	Listed as "Other" for both water and sewer — NOT confirmed public; electric at street	Attleboro MA ~19–21 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~19 min (fails) / Blanding Public Library ~9 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	RES	Active (listed 2026-02-20)	LandSearch
170 Rocky Hill Rd, Rehoboth MA 02769	$739,900	4.00	Existing SFH, 1979 expanded Cape, 2,473 sf, 3bd/2ba — good condition, updated	Unknown; well/septic presumed rural	Attleboro MA ~19 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~19 min (fails) / Blanding ~9 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	R	Active (listed 2026-08-06)	LandSearch
16 Ledge Hill Ln (Lot 13), Rehoboth MA 02769	$1,199,000	2.53	New-construction SFH (2026), under construction, 3,125 sf, 4bd/3ba — Ledge Hill Estates	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~18 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~17 min (fails) / Blanding ~11 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~17 min	RES	Active (listed 2026-08-24)	LandSearch
224 Perryville Rd, Rehoboth MA 02769	$649,000	2.36	Existing SFH 3bd/2ba, 1,802 sf	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~17 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~17 min (fails) / Blanding ~10 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~17 min	Unconfirmed	Active (list-price data ~2 months old)	LandSearch
15 Key West Blvd, Rehoboth MA 02769	$1,249,000	3.00	Existing SFH 3bd/3.5ba, 3,647 sf	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~19 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~19 min (fails) / Blanding ~11 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	Unconfirmed	Active	LandSearch
52 Round Farm Rd, Rehoboth MA 02769	$1,100,000	1.50	Existing SFH 3bd/2.5ba, 2,522 sf	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~20 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~20 min (fails) / Blanding ~12 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~20 min	Unconfirmed	Active	LandSearch
275 Summer St, Rehoboth MA 02769	$699,000	2.75	Not detailed on the snapshot page	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~18–20 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~18 min (fails) / Blanding ~10 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	Unconfirmed	Pending	LandSearch (Rehoboth MA)
19 Cedar St, Rehoboth MA 02769	$589,000	1.60	Not detailed on the snapshot page	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~18–20 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~18 min (fails) / Blanding ~10 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	Unconfirmed	Pending	LandSearch (Rehoboth MA)
72 New St, Rehoboth MA 02769	$499,900	2.00	Not detailed on the snapshot page	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~18–20 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~18 min (fails) / Blanding ~10 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	Unconfirmed	Pending	LandSearch (Rehoboth MA)
5 Victoria Ln, Rehoboth MA 02769	$850,000	1.87	Not detailed on the snapshot page	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~18–20 min (fails)	Sturdy Memorial ~18 min (fails) / Blanding ~10 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~19 min	Unconfirmed	Pending	LandSearch (Rehoboth MA)
32 Thayer Farm Rd, Attleboro MA 02703	$699,000	2.10	Existing SFH 5bd/2.5ba, 3,352 sf	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~9 min — passes	Sturdy Memorial ~8 min (passes) / Attleboro Public Library ~8 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~9 min	Unconfirmed	Pending	LandSearch
23 York Dr, Attleboro MA 02703	$374,900	2.00	Vacant land	Unknown	Attleboro MA ~10 min — passes	Sturdy Memorial ~9 min (passes) / Attleboro Public Library ~9 min / PF North Attleboro MA ~10 min	Unconfirmed	Pending	LandSearch
1125 School St, Mansfield MA 02048	$1,200,000	3.00	Existing SFH 3bd/2.5ba, 3,339 sf	Unknown	Mansfield MA ~6 min — passes	Sturdy Memorial ~13 min (passes) / Mansfield Public Library ~5 min / PF Norton MA ~10 min	Unconfirmed	Active (listing ~3 months old, current status unverified)	LandSearch

Prior-candidate status checks

Candidate	Finding this run
145 Winthrop St, Rehoboth MA	CONFIRMED ACTIVE. $219,900, 3.18 ac, MLS 73567377, relisted 2026-08-24. Public water, private sewer with an approved 4-bedroom septic design and a passed PERC. Zoning is a split Res/Bus — the Route 44 frontage is Business, the rear homesite Residential. Still the cheapest active buildable parcel in the whole sweep.
156 Rocky Hill Rd, Rehoboth MA	CONFIRMED ACTIVE at $229,000, unchanged. Acreage confirmed at 1.99 (listings elsewhere round to "2 acres"). Perc complete 2017; legal non-conforming but buildable. Correction worth carrying forward: water and sewer are both listed as "Other" in the MLS record — recorded as unknown, NOT as public.
0 Read St, Attleboro MA	Did not surface as an active listing on any live source. Cached figures remain mutually inconsistent (3.81 ac / $115,000 vs 4.4 ac / $65,000-pending) and neither resolved to a live page. Consistent with off-market; excluded from the table rather than carried as inventory.
138 Washington St, Attleboro MA	CONFIRMED OFF-MARKET — new this run. LoopNet listing ID 38600719 explicitly states the property is no longer being advertised. It was a 2.00-acre commercially zoned (R1) parcel with a prior 36-car-lot approval and water/electric/gas/cable available offsite — commercial rather than a residential teardown candidate in any case.
0 Oak Street, Attleboro MA (MLS 73526161)	NEW FIND, status unconfirmed. A two-lot package via LandVest Christie's: Lot 15 is shovel-ready with public water AND public sewer stubbed to the lot, plus adjacent bonus parcel Lot 7A. This is the only full-public-utility parcel surfaced anywhere in this sweep and it sits in the one town that passes both the rail and hospital rules cleanly. Price and active/pending status could not be confirmed — the LandVest and StreamlineREgroup detail pages are JS-rendered and returned no content. Worth a direct agent call. (A separate 0.19-acre Oak St, Attleboro MA parcel at $160,000 falls below the 0.75-acre floor and is excluded.)
106 Indian Ln, Canton MA	RESURFACED WITH A SOURCE CONFLICT. LandSearch carries it Active at $329,000 / 1.00 ac (MLS 73487796, listed 2026-03-17). Boston Pads carries the fuller MLS price history — $380,000 Mar 2025 → $349,000 Jul–Sep 2025 (expired 2026-03-11) → relisted $329,000 on 2026-03-17 → CANCELED 2026-08-19. The cancellation is 12 days before this run and sits on the source with the deeper history, so treat the parcel as likely off-market and the LandSearch "Active" tag as stale cache. Reported as a conflict rather than silently resolved.

Section 2 — Beach-Area Weekly Rental Buys (RI)

Properties to buy and then rent out by the week. Station reference points: Wickford Junction, North Kingstown RI (P/S line southern terminus) and T.F. Green Airport Station, Warwick RI.

Address	Price	Type	Bd/Ba	Sq Ft	Fees	Beach (est.)	Station (est.)	STR notes	Status	Source
20 Narragansett Ave Unit 210, Narragansett RI 02882	$1,150,000 ($50K drop)	Condo	2/2	989	Not disclosed	Narragansett Town Beach RI ~2 min walk	Wickford Junction RI ~20 min	Town STR ordinance currently unenforceable (enjoined)	Active	Homes.com
194 S Pier Rd, Narragansett RI 02882	$999,900	Duplex (side-by-side two-family)	4/2 total	1,728	None listed	Town Beach / seawall ~5–8 min walk	Wickford Junction RI ~20 min	Enjoined ordinance; established Pier rental area. Duplex-ban proposal pending — unadopted	Active	Homes.com
6 MacAlder St, Narragansett RI 02879	$1,495,000	Duplex / two-family	6/4 total	2,358	None listed	Salty Brine / Jerusalem RI shore — short walk (est.)	Wickford Junction RI ~20–25 min	Same as above	Active	Homes.com
285 Gooseberry Rd, Wakefield RI 02879	$919,900	Two cottages on one parcel	2/2 total	700	None listed	East Matunuck State Beach RI — bike ride (est.)	Wickford Junction RI ~25 min (beyond 15-min target)	South Kingstown RI rental registry applies	Active	Homes.com
44 Maxwell Dr, North Kingstown RI 02852	$689,900 ($60K drop)	Multi-family / two-family	4/3 total	2,709	None listed	Wickford RI-area beaches ~5–10 min drive	Wickford Junction RI ~3 min	No town-wide STR ban found for North Kingstown RI — verify zoning	Active	Homes.com
49 Seawynds Dr, North Kingstown RI 02852	$549,900	Condo (Reynolds Farm, Wickford RI)	2/2	1,168	Not disclosed	Wickford RI-area beaches ~5–10 min drive	Wickford Junction RI ~5–10 min	No town-wide ban found; verify condo-association STR rules	Active	Homes.com
16 Jennison Rd, Warwick RI 02889 (Conimicut RI)	$550,000	Two-family	4/2 total (2/1 each side)	2,240	None listed	Conimicut Point Beach RI — short walk	T.F. Green RI ~10 min	Confirm the parcel is NOT in R-6 or R-10 — STRs barred in those zones	Active	Homes.com
14 S Atlantic Ave, Warwick RI 02888 (Pawtuxet Village RI)	$469,900	Two-family, side-by-side	1/1 each side	3,084	None listed	Pawtuxet RI shore — walkable per listing	T.F. Green RI ~10–12 min	Same R-6/R-10 zone caveat	Coming Soon	Homes.com
19 Wood St, Warwick RI 02889	$880,000	New-construction two-family townhouse	2/1.5 each side	2,400	None listed	"Moments from sandy shores" per listing (distance unconfirmed)	T.F. Green RI ~10 min	Same R-6/R-10 zone caveat	Under construction	Homes.com
22 Southwest Ave, Jamestown RI 02835	$695,000	Condo (unfinished shell)	1/1	1,200	Not disclosed	Walk to beach per listing (which beach unconfirmed)	No direct link; ~25–30 min to Wickford Junction RI via Newport Bridge (exceeds target)	Jamestown RI rules not separately researched — verify with town hall	Active — verify condition	Homes.com
24 Southwest Ave, Jamestown RI 02835	$695,000	Condo (same pairing)	3/1	1,200	Not disclosed	As above	As above (exceeds target)	Same caveat	Active — verify condition	Homes.com
221 Leisure Dr, Wakefield RI 02879	$440,000	Mobile / manufactured home	2/2	1,458	Land-lease — fee not disclosed	NOT beach-close — inland residential; price reference only	Wickford Junction RI ~25 min	South Kingstown RI registry applies	Active	Homes.com
10 Stellar Way, Wakefield RI 02879 (Village at Worden's Pond)	$459,000	Mobile / manufactured home	3/2	1,700	Land-lease — fee not disclosed	NOT beach-close — inland/pond-adjacent	Wickford Junction RI ~25 min	55+ age-restricted — likely blocks the weekly-rental model entirely	Unsuitable	Homes.com
979 Toll Gate Rd, Warwick RI 02886	$80,000–$195,000 (5 units listed)	Mobile home park, 55+	2/1–1.5	672–792	HOA covers water/sewer/trash/snow	NOT beach-close — inland Toll Gate Rd, miles from Oakland Beach RI / Conimicut RI	T.F. Green RI ~10 min	55+ age-restricted — NOT usable for the rental model	Ruled out	Homes.com

Read: the cleanest fits on "small footprint + walkable to an established rental beach + workable rail access" are the 20 Narragansett Ave, Narragansett RI condo and the 194 S Pier Rd and 6 MacAlder St duplexes, all Narragansett RI, plus the Warwick RI Conimicut RI / Pawtuxet RI two-families at 16 Jennison Rd and 14 S Atlantic Ave. The Wickford RI pair (44 Maxwell Dr and 49 Seawynds Dr, North Kingstown RI) is the strongest rail-adjacency play but is a short drive from the water rather than a beach walk. The Jamestown RI condos and both 55+ manufactured-home communities are weak or unusable fits and are flagged as such above.

Weekly rental rate benchmarks

Area	Peak weekly (est.)	Occupancy / supporting data	Source
Narragansett RI	~$3,770/wk implied from $538 ADR; individual 3-bed listings advertised ~$2,500/wk for summer 2026	65% average occupancy	AirDNA Narragansett
Jamestown RI	~$2,760/wk implied from $394 ADR	Local agency confirms Saturday-to-Saturday weekly-only booking in July–August	AirDNA Jamestown · JamestownRIRental
Warwick RI (Oakland Beach RI, Conimicut RI, Buttonwoods RI, Warwick Neck RI)	~$1,840/wk implied from $263 citywide ADR; Oakland Beach RI cottages quoted ~$159–$275/night shoulder season	61% occupancy, RevPAR $141; revenue up 30% YoY	AirDNA Warwick · VacationCottage
South Kingstown RI (Wakefield RI, Peace Dale RI, Matunuck RI)	~$770–$2,450/wk from a $110–$350 ADR band	Wide band because the stock spans inland and oceanfront — treat as directional only	Awning market data
North Kingstown RI (Wickford RI, Saunderstown RI)	Nightly $115–$817; Saunderstown RI up to $1,917/night at the high end. Weekly figures not independently confirmed this run	Aggregator data, not a dedicated STR platform	Travelocity

Caveat: these are directional planning figures pulled from AirDNA public overview pages and secondary aggregators, not a licensed comp report. AirDNA's app itself is JS-heavy and was reached only via search summaries this run.

STR rules by town

Narragansett RI — permit cap: the 2024 ordinance (7-night minimum; permit cap declining 1,100 in 2024 to 900 in 2026) remains under the preliminary injunction issued by Superior Court Associate Justice Sarah Taft-Carter in October 2024. No final ruling on the merits was found this run. Litigation from the "Narragansett 2100" landlord group continues, and Town Solicitor James Callaghan has discussed re-enacting the rules as a zoning ordinance rather than a standalone licensing ordinance. Bottom line: still not being enforced. Boston Globe · WPRI · Independent RI
Narragansett RI — duplex ban: DOWNGRADED this run from "being proposed" to "proposed, no action taken, still contested." The proposal is real — officials moved to ban duplexes townwide except by special permit in two zones, reported by the Providence Journal on 2024-04-17 as a response to the state's 2023 Shekarchi housing package. But the Town Council took no action, and the Planning Board separately voted 4–1 against the related sweeping zoning restructuring in April 2025 over safety, infrastructure and character concerns. No evidence found that a duplex ban has been adopted. Still a live constraint to watch on Section 3 there, but not a pending prohibition. Providence Journal (PressReader) · Independent RI
Warwick RI — R-6/R-10 bar: confirmed directionally for a second run — STRs are permitted in Warwick RI's residential and Village mixed-use zones generally but prohibited in the R-6 and R-10 districts, which cover much of the single-family shore stock. New detail this run: an earlier proposed owner-occupancy requirement was dropped by amendment (Councilman Anthony Sinapi). Primary sources again unreachable — Municode's Warwick RI zoning node returned a JS shell with no ordinance text, so all R-6/R-10 detail remains secondary-source only. Warwick Beacon · Policy Commons ordinance mirror · City of Warwick STR memo (2023 PDF)
Rhode Island statewide taxes — PRIMARY SOURCE REACHED this run: per the RI Division of Taxation's own notice, effective 2026-01-01 the local hotel tax rose from 1% to 2% on all short-term lodging, and a new 5% whole-home STR tax applies to entire-dwelling rentals of 30 days or less — separate from, and not stacked with, the existing 5% state hotel tax on single-room rentals. Full load on a taxable whole-home stay: 7% sales tax + 5% whole-home STR tax + 2% local hotel tax. RI Division of Taxation Notice 2025-09 (PDF)
South Kingstown RI — rental registry: re-confirmed. Adopted 2025-10-14; the original 2025-12-31 filing deadline was extended to 2026-03-31. $100 registration fee, $300 late fee. Applies to all rental dwellings including under-30-day stays. Town of South Kingstown RI (the CivicAlerts detail page returned an empty body on fetch — confirmed via town-site and local-press search snippets rather than a direct primary fetch)
North Kingstown RI, Jamestown RI, Bonnet Shores RI: not independently re-verified beyond general searches this run. No town-wide STR ban surfaced for North Kingstown RI. Confirm directly with each town's zoning office before any purchase.

Excluded — cottage communities that cannot be rented

Roy Carpenter's Beach, 240 Cards Pond Rd, South Kingstown RI 02879 — CONFIRMED NO RENTING. Explicitly barred to preserve the "family atmosphere." 377 cottages, seasonal May 1 – Oct 15. The land was purchased by the cottage owners' association (RCBA) on 2025-10-29, converting from leased land to member-owned; this does not appear to have changed the no-rental rule. Wikipedia
Knowles Camp, Narragansett RI — CONFIRMED NO RENTALS. Scarborough Village Tenant Association; 106 seasonal cottages on leased land, walk to Scarborough State Beach. Scarborough Village Tenant Association
Mary Carpenter's / Carpenter's Beach Meadow, 854 Matunuck Beach Rd, South Kingstown RI 02879 — DOWNGRADED this run. Prior runs recorded this as a confirmed no-rental community. This run could not re-confirm an explicit rental ban from any reachable source. It is structured as an owner-occupancy seasonal colony (May – Oct 15, individually owned units on association land), which strongly implies the same restriction, but the ban itself is now recorded as unverified rather than confirmed. Contact the association (401-783-4412) before writing it off or chasing it. Carpenter's Beach Meadow, Inc.
Buttonwoods Campground / Buttonwoods Beach Association, Warwick RI — STILL UNRESOLVED (fourth consecutive run). Confirmed only that cottages sell as personal-property leaseholds (land leased, dwelling owned) with a May 15 – Oct 15 season. No source states the rental policy either way. Do not assume rentability without contacting the association directly. Buttonwoods BCA

Section 3 — Dwelling-Unit Duplexes

Owner-occupant strategy: primary residence with immediate rental income from the second unit. No acreage, price or bedroom-count caps.

Massachusetts — 12 entries

Address	Price	Condition	Layout per side	Utilities	Est. rent (rented side)	Zoning	Status	Source
18 North Ave, Attleboro MA 02703	$625,000	Teardown / value-add — 1910 two-unit, "needs work", marketed to investors	6bd/3ba total; ~3/1.5 each side (split unconfirmed)	Unknown	~$1,900–$2,300/mo (estimate, not a listing figure)	Rare 0.89-ac lot; multi-family zoning presumed, unconfirmed	Active	Homes.com
117 Bacon St, Attleboro MA 02703	$529,900	Good — well maintained, numerous updates	2bd/1ba each side, eat-in kitchen each	Unknown	~$1,800/mo (estimate)	Unconfirmed	Active (open house scheduled)	Homes.com
299 S Main St, Attleboro MA 02703	$550,000	Good — same family since 1949, well maintained	2bd each side; 1st-floor unit has a bonus room. Separate front/rear stairwell access	Unknown	~$1,700–$1,900/mo (estimate)	Unconfirmed	Active	Homes.com
387 Mendon Rd, Attleboro MA 02703	$599,900	Good — updated, well maintained	Upper 3bd/1ba; lower 2bd/1ba	Unknown	~$1,800–$2,200/mo for the smaller unit (estimate)	Unconfirmed	Active	Homes.com
127 Maple St, Attleboro MA 02703	$625,000	Good — built 2009	4bd/2ba total; ~2/1 each side (unconfirmed)	Unknown	~$1,900–$2,100/mo (estimate)	Unconfirmed	Active	Homes.com
485 Mendon Rd, Attleboro MA 02703	$674,900	Good — updated electrical, new heat/AC pumps	Unit 1: 3bd/1ba; Unit 2: 2bd/1ba	Not fully separate — described as updated shared systems; verify	~$1,900–$2,100/mo for the 2bd (estimate)	Unconfirmed	Active	Homes.com
12 Hoyle St, Norwood MA 02062	$899,000	Not specified — active market listing	4bd/3ba total, per-side split not published	Unknown	Not verified this run	Residential; two-family permitted	Active (listed ~8 days ago)	Boston Pads
24 Short St, Norwood MA 02062	$879,900 ($20,100 drop)	Not specified	2bd/2ba total, per-side split not published	Unknown	Not verified this run	Residential; two-family permitted	Active (49 days on market)	Boston Pads
26 Tremont St, Norwood MA 02062	$850,000	Not specified	5bd/4ba total, per-side split not published	Unknown	Not verified this run	Residential; two-family permitted	Active (54 days on market)	Boston Pads
71-73 Fowler St, Mansfield MA 02048	$795,000	Good — functional layout, separate entrances, enclosed front porch on each unit	3bd each side; 2 full baths total (per-side bath count unconfirmed)	Unknown	~$2,200–$2,500/mo (estimate, Mansfield MA rents)	Dead-end street; zoning unconfirmed	Active	Homes.com
38 Dean St, Rehoboth MA 02769	$574,900	Teardown / renovation-grade — "project with endless potential", barn + 2-car garage, well pump 2022, oil tank 2023	5bd/2ba total. Square-footage discrepancy: 2,586 sf per listing text vs 3,749 sf per MLS record	Well, presumed septic (rural Rehoboth MA)	~$1,900–$2,200/mo if renovated (estimate)	1.8 acres; zoning unconfirmed	Active (MLS 73537719) — ~6.9 mi from Attleboro Station, Attleboro MA	Redfin
77 Messinger St, Canton MA 02021	$759,000	Good — no teardown language	4bd/2ba total, per-side split not published	Unknown	Not verified this run	General residential district permits two-family (existing conforming use)	Contingent	Boston Pads

Rhode Island — 10 entries

Address	Price	Condition	Layout per side	Utilities	Est. rent (rented side)	Zoning	Status	Source
14 S Atlantic Ave, Warwick RI 02888	$469,900	Good — kitchens and electrical updated within 4 years	1bd/1ba each side, separate driveways	Separate driveways confirmed; electrical updated each side	Not stated in listing	Confirm zone is not R-6/R-10 before assuming STR eligibility	Coming Soon	Homes.com
31 Child St, Warren RI 02885	$539,000 ($10K drop)	Fair/good — some updating implied	1st floor 3bd/1ba; 2nd floor 3–4bd/1ba; ~1,700 sf per unit	Not stated	Not stated in listing	Not researched this run	Active	Homes.com
16 Jennison Rd, Warwick RI 02889	$550,000	Good — well maintained	2bd/1ba each side, each with its own washer/dryer	In-unit W/D each side confirmed; other utilities not detailed	Not stated in listing	Confirm zone is not R-6/R-10	Active	Homes.com
44 Maxwell Dr, North Kingstown RI 02852	$689,900	Good — "rare multifamily" near Wickford RI village	4bd/3ba total, not itemized per side	Not stated	Not stated in listing	No town-wide ban found; verify locally	Active	Homes.com
348 Market St, Warren RI 02885	$775,000	Good — "lovingly cared for", period detail retained	Side-by-side, each unit on its own separate legal lot	Not itemized	Not stated in listing	No beach-town STR rule researched this run	Active	Homes.com
27 Barney St, Warren RI 02885	$800,000	Good — recently renovated	3bd/1ba each side	Not itemized	Not stated in listing	Not researched this run	Active	Homes.com
19 Wood St, Warwick RI 02889	$880,000	New construction, currently under construction	2bd/1.5ba each side	Not stated	Not stated in listing	Confirm zone before STR assumption	Under construction	Homes.com
285 Gooseberry Rd, Wakefield RI 02879	$919,900	Good — two cottages, one with 2-car garage + loft, one a true beach cottage	Main house + 1-bed cottage	Separate utilities and separate basements confirmed in listing	Not stated in listing	South Kingstown RI rental registry applies	Active	Homes.com
194 S Pier Rd, Narragansett RI 02882	$999,900	Good — "beautifully renovated"	Both units one-level, walk to ocean	Not stated	Not stated in listing	Duplex ban proposed but unadopted — verify before closing	Active	Homes.com
6 MacAlder St, Narragansett RI 02879	$1,495,000	Good — "beautifully maintained", water views	6bd/4ba total, not itemized per side	Not stated	Not stated in listing	Same duplex-ban caveat	Active	Homes.com

Confirmed duplex zeros this run

Sharon MA — ZERO. Boston Pads reports zero verified available listings across all multi-family types in Sharon MA. Consistent with the town's predominantly large-lot single-family zoning, though that inference is an observation, not a bylaw citation. source
Stoughton MA — ZERO qualifying two-unit duplexes. The only active multi-family listing in town is a 6-unit building (1508 Central St, Stoughton MA, $1,649,900), which is not a duplex. Older Stoughton MA addresses surfaced in search snippets did not appear on the live verified feed and were excluded as likely stale.
Jamestown RI — ZERO. Homes.com's dedicated Jamestown RI multi-family search returned "No properties matching your criteria were found." source
Barrington RI — ZERO strict two-family. The five multi-family results were a 14-unit/6-building estate ($4.975M, out of scope), a single-family miscategorized into the search, a bundled residential+commercial parcel, an unrelated single-family, and one legitimate but three-unit property at 192 Washington Rd, Barrington RI ($919,000) — noted here for reference and excluded from the table as not a duplex. source
Bonnet Shores RI — ZERO. A Bonnet Shores RI-specific condo search returned zero results, and no duplex-specific listing in the neighborhood could be confirmed with a real URL this run. source
Saunderstown RI — ZERO. No qualifying duplex surfaced.
Thin but not zero: North Kingstown RI (Wickford RI) returned exactly ONE multi-family listing (44 Maxwell Dr). South Kingstown RI returned five, but most (2185 Post Rd, 28 Park Ave, 18 Railroad Ave, all South Kingstown RI) are inland or West Kingston RI-adjacent rather than beach-village; only 285 Gooseberry Rd, Wakefield RI is genuinely near-beach.
Rehoboth MA is NOT a zero this run — a reversal of the standing pattern. 38 Dean St, Rehoboth MA ($574,900, teardown-grade, 1.8 acres) is an active two-family. Treat this as a fresh finding, not a repeat of stale data.

Coverage & Caveats

Source gating was UNIFORM this run — a reversal of the last two runs. Zillow and Redfin were JS-gated on all three sweeps simultaneously (northern corridor, southern corridor, and the RI coast). In the two prior runs the gating was non-uniform and inverted between sweeps. Direct property-page fetches on both sites returned navigation shells or mobile-interstitial boilerplate with no listing data; every Zillow/Redfin reference in this report is secondhand via search snippets, with the single exception of 38 Dean St, Rehoboth MA, whose Redfin page did resolve.
Estimated uncovered inventory: the northern-corridor sweep puts its capture at roughly 60–75% of actively marketed in-band inventory; the southern-corridor sweep estimates a 15–30% Zillow/Redfin-only gap; the RI sweep flags its counts as a floor, not a ceiling (Zillow shows materially higher counts for Wickford RI and Bonnet Shores RI than the reachable filtered pages reproduced). The aggregators that were reachable — LandSearch, LandWatch, Land.com, Boston Pads and Homes.com — largely mirror the same underlying MLSPIN data, so the true gap is probably smaller than a single-source search would imply, but it is real and unquantified.
Also gated this run: Municode (Warwick RI zoning — JS shell, blocking the primary-source read of the R-6/R-10 STR bar for a second consecutive run); the South Kingstown RI CivicAlerts detail page (empty body); LandVest and StreamlineREgroup (blocking price/status confirmation on the 0 Oak Street, Attleboro MA package); AirDNA's app pages (reached via search summaries only); LoopNet beyond its public summary text.
Hospital criterion fails corridor-wide in the north. Norwood Hospital is re-confirmed permanently closed since the June 2020 flood and remains an unfinished, vacant construction site. New detail this run: Massachusetts passed emergency legislation in August 2026 aimed at speeding the site's revitalization, and multiple hospital operators are reportedly in talks to take over — but it has not reopened. With the nearest open ER at Good Samaritan Brockton MA or BID-Milton MA, the 15-minute rule fails for Canton MA, Stoughton MA, Sharon MA and Norwood MA alike. Only Attleboro MA and Mansfield MA pass it, via Sturdy Memorial.
Utilities pattern worth watching. Where MLS utility fields were actually populated in the northern corridor (106 Indian Ln and 9 Chief Ln, both Canton MA), the pattern was public water plus private septic rather than full public water and sewer. Sample size is small (n=3 with data), but combined with 0 East Foxboro St, Sharon MA showing private water and private sewer, the "full public utilities" preference is looking hard to satisfy anywhere in this corridor except the unconfirmed 0 Oak Street, Attleboro MA package.
Two Section 1 entries are commercially zoned (Atkinson Avenue Ext and the Atkinson Ave / Washington St corner, both Stoughton MA) and both are pending. They are retained for inventory completeness and flagged rather than dropped.
0 East Foxboro St, Sharon MA straddles a town line — roughly 1.48 acres in Sharon MA and 0.66 in Foxboro MA. Flagged because it complicates any assumption about which town's bylaws govern.
Drive and walk times throughout are estimates derived from road geography, not live routing data. Rental-rate figures are directional planning benchmarks, not a licensed comparative market analysis. Rental-value estimates in the duplex tables are the researcher's inference from area rents, not listing figures, and are labelled as such per row.
Each run is a fresh search. No NEW / PRICE DROP / GONE markers are applied and no day-over-day diff is performed; where this report says a finding is "new" or "downgraded", that refers to a change in what the sources themselves could substantiate, which is called out explicitly rather than inferred from a diff.

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