Georgetown Homes For Sale

Georgetown's story begins in 1639, just a year after Rev. Ezekiel Rogers led a band of Yorkshire families from Rowley, England to found the plantation of Rowley on land stretching between Newbury and Ipswich. The western section of that grant became known as "New Rowley," and by the 1830s it had outgrown its parent: of Rowley's roughly 2,444 residents, some 1,500 lived in the New Rowley section versus just 944 in Rowley proper, and the distance between the two parishes was slowing mail, business, and town governance alike. That imbalance, plus a local building boom that added roughly 80 houses between 1830 and 1838, drove the push for independence, and the Town of Georgetown was incorporated in 1838.

Through the 19th century Georgetown grew around small mills and a shoe manufacturing trade rather than the shipping and shipbuilding that defined its Merrimack River neighbors. That inland, working-village character is still legible today in the town's historic core: the early-18th-century Perley-Smart House (now a house museum run by the Georgetown Historical Society), the 1717 Meetinghouse, and the Georgetown Peabody Library anchor a compact Main Street crossroads at Routes 133 and 97, surrounded by large-lot, wooded residential neighborhoods that have changed relatively little in outline since the postwar decades.

Today Georgetown functions largely as a bedroom community about 28 miles north of Boston, with easy access to I-95 and a rural, low-density feel reinforced by its role as a gateway to the Georgetown-Rowley State Forest and Crane Pond Wildlife Management Area. Housing stock is overwhelmingly single-family, the town remains a seller's market, and as of December 2024 the median home sale price in Georgetown stood at $737,000, essentially flat year-over-year, with roughly 20-27 homes on the market at any given time according to Rocket Homes market data.