Welcome to Newton

Newton is a city seven miles west of downtown Boston made up of thirteen villages, each with its own center: Auburndale, Chestnut Hill, Newton Centre, Newton Corner, Newton Highlands, Newton Lower Falls, Newton Upper Falls, Newtonville, Nonantum, Oak Hill, Thompsonville, Waban, and West Newton. Most of its homes are single-family houses on tree-lined streets, with condominiums and townhouses closer to the village centers.

About Newton

English settlement in the area dates to the early 1600s, when it was known as Cambridge Village and belonged to Cambridge. It became an independent township in 1688, took the name Newton in 1691, and became a city in 1874. Rail lines in the 19th century turned farm villages into commuter suburbs, while Newton Upper Falls and Newton Lower Falls grew as mill villages on the Charles River, which forms much of the city's border.

Newton borders the Boston neighborhoods of West Roxbury and Allston-Brighton, along with Brookline, Needham, Wellesley, Weston, Waltham, and Watertown. On its eastern edge, the village of Chestnut Hill is shared with Brookline and Boston.

Getting Around

The Green Line D branch runs through the southern villages, with stops at Chestnut Hill, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Eliot, Waban, Woodland, and Riverside. Framingham/Worcester Line commuter rail trains stop at Newtonville, West Newton, and Auburndale. The Massachusetts Turnpike crosses the northern part of the city, Route 9 runs east and west through Chestnut Hill and Newton Centre, and Interstate 95 and Route 128 follow the western edge.

Newton Real Estate

Single-family homes make up more than half of Newton's housing, ranging from Victorian and Colonial Revival houses near the older village centers to mid-century and newer homes in neighborhoods such as Oak Hill and Waban. Two-family houses and condominiums are found around Newtonville, West Newton, Newton Corner, and Nonantum, and newer condominium and apartment buildings have been added near the village centers and transit stops. Newton Upper Falls, a 19th-century mill village on the Charles, is a local historic district with Federal and Greek Revival houses near the old mills and Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival homes up the hill.

Newton buildings on our site include:

• 1151 Walnut, a condominium building completed in 2026 across from the Newton Highlands Green Line station
• 77 Court, 36 condominiums completed in 2017 near the Newtonville commuter rail station
• The Towers of Chestnut Hill, a 423-residence high-rise condominium at 250 Hammond Pond Parkway

Living in Newton

Each village center has its own shops, restaurants, and cafes, and the larger centers in Newton Centre, Newtonville, and West Newton are walkable to the train. Crystal Lake has a public swimming beach and bathhouse run by the city. In Newton Upper Falls, Echo Bridge, completed in 1877, carries the old Sudbury Aqueduct across the Charles on seven granite arches above Hemlock Gorge. Every April the Boston Marathon climbs the Newton hills along Commonwealth Avenue, from the firehouse at Washington Street to Heartbreak Hill near Boston College. The Jackson Homestead and Museum on Washington Street presents Newton history, including the Underground Railroad.

To see homes for sale in Newton, browse the listings below or contact Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Warren Residential.