Falmouth MA
Real Estate
Falmouth MA Real Estate
Bowen Real Estate services the Falmouth area
Population & Demographics
Population (2024 estimate): 33,227
Median value of owner-occupied units: $580,000
65 years and over: 33.3%
Whether you’ve been to Falmouth, MA, in the past or not, once you smell the salt air and feel the sand between your toes, you will want to call Falmouth your home.
Hello, I’m John Bowen, 2nd. Generation, award-winning Falmouth, MA, Realtor and Owner/Broker of Bowen Real Estate of Cape Cod.
My team of seasoned Realtors understand the unique challenges that may arise during the buying and selling process and the experience to ensure a smooth transaction.
Falmouth is a very special place, with miles of beautiful beaches and coastline. The best sailing and motor boating anywhere and a multitude of golf courses abound. If you’re a fisherman likes me, Falmouth has some of the deepest lakes and ponds stocked with a variety of trout species and of course the striped bass and blue fishing is unparalleled.
So, no matter your favorite pastime, whether it’s antiquing, theater, festivals or the quaint shops, Falmouth, MA has it.
As a Cape Codder whose family has lived in Falmouth for decades, I’m looking forward to meeting you and helping you Find Your Way Home.
From the tip of Provincetown, MA, to the birthplace of Katharine Lee Bates, author of America the Beautiful, Falmouth, Cape Cod.
About Falmouth MA
Falmouth is home to Woods Hole, a vital scientific mecca where several seminal scientific research centers are housed, including the Woods Hole Research Center, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the NOAA Woods Hole Science Aquarium, as well as various influential museums associated with those facilities and institutions.
Woods Hole also boasts the Steamship Authority terminal, with ferries to Martha’s Vineyard.
Living in Falmouth, Massachusetts
Cape Cod is known for temperate, beach-friendly weather in the summer and mild winters with an occasional cold snap, or a blanket of snow, and Falmouth is no exception. With nearly seventy miles of coastline, ten public beaches, and more than a dozen unique harbors, Falmouth’s access to the ocean is unparalleled in New England. Year-round residents are usually hard to find in the summer; however, they are either cagily blending or outright hibernating. They surface in their glory in September, with the weather still warm and fair, and the restaurants and beaches a little less busy. While other communities on Cape Cod go to a skeleton crew for the winter, Falmouth stays in business year-round.
Historic and compelling architecture, a trademark throughout the northeast, also makes Falmouth a beautiful and inspiring place to live. Centuries-old sea captains’ homes, eye-catching clapboard Federal and Georgian, have had their historical details painstakingly maintained.
A revitalized Main Street is a focal point of today’s Falmouth. Rescued in the last decade from being little more than a default lane of underwhelming tourist shops, Main Street’s storefronts are now a parade of chic and rising shops and restaurants. The accessible boutiques now cater not only to summer traffic but also to year-round residents in search of everyday necessities, such as home furnishings, clothing, and other essentials.
While Falmouth has gladly and readily welcomed a growing younger population each year, it continues to demonstrate active pride in its heritage. Falmouth Museums on the Green offers regular tours of historic museums dating back to the 1700s. A new cultural center in town hosts many public enrichment events, including exhibitions, lectures, and even culinary demonstrations. Falmouth also remains a family-oriented community, emphasizing education and successful schools. Both the public high school and private Falmouth Academy maintain exemplary national ratings. Falmouth Academy sits on a broad and picturesque campus and is emulated nationwide for its emphasis on the arts and its uncompromising academics. The Cape Cod Theatre Project, hosted at Falmouth Academy, brings national playwrights and theatre directors to Falmouth every summer to produce new and relevant works.
Falmouth's advantage over other Cape Cod communities is its proximity to the Bourne Bridge, a vital artery on Cape Cod. Downtown Falmouth is approximately fifteen minutes from the bridge and access to mainland Massachusetts, a slightly longer distance with traffic.
Testimonials
History
Downtown Falmouth’s Village Green is the heart of a historic district. During the Revolutionary War, the green was a training ground for local militias and a fulcrum as battles began to turn in favor of the colonies.
Preserving history is a priority in Falmouth and Cape Cod in general. Year-round residents are known for activism in support of their history: When Highfield Hall, a 19th-century mansion, faced demolition in 1994, residents organized to save the historic structure, which is now a fully restored community and cultural center, hosting events as varied as community classes and weddings, as well as a botanical center and hundreds of acres of nature trails.
Housing facts of Falmouth, Massachusetts
The housing market is healthy and rising in Falmouth today. The median home value is nearly $600,000, higher than the Cape Cod average, having risen more than five percent in the last year. Values are expected to increase by another four percent in the coming year. Meanwhile, national home values have fallen by twenty percent over the previous ten years.
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Dining, Events, and Attractions
With more year-round residents than many other Cape Cod communities, Falmouth prioritizes cultural enrichment and social life throughout the year. Various enrichment programs for all ages, including events and programs focused on music, art, recreation, and learning, remain available and promoted even in the relative quiet of winter.
Ten miles of bike path are among the most popular recreational opportunities in Falmouth. The Shining Sea Bikeway is named for the well-known line from America the Beautiful. The composer of America the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates, was a native of Falmouth. The Shining Sea Bikeway, which begins in North Falmouth and ends in Woods Hole, tours the Cape’s trademark cranberry bogs, coastline, salt marshes, ponds, swamps, and forests.
The Falmouth Road Race, which attracts over 10,000 international athletes every summer, has been running for 42 years and counting. Like the Shining Sea Bikeway, the Falmouth Road Race includes Woods Hole in its circuit: the route, lined with cheering spectators, begins in Woods Hole and ends in Falmouth Heights. The Daily Brew, La Cucina Sul Mare, ANEJO Falmouth, East End Tap, Shipwrecked, The Flying Bridge Golden Swan Restaurant (Indian Cuisine), Romeo's, and the popular Quarterdeck Restaurant are among the most sought-after dining destinations in Falmouth. The Annual Falmouth Village Street Fair is another attraction worth seeing. The Cape Cod Scallop Festival, which relocated recently from Bourne to Falmouth, has been a standout event for locals and tourists for nearly fifty years. It is three days of scallops, other seafood, arts and crafts, live performances, a carnival, a car show, and contests. Because it takes place in September, attendance tends to lean slightly more toward local, year-round residents; however, it remains a very popular destination for bus tours.
Conclusion
If you want to live in one of the places where summer is best, you can’t beat Cape Cod. But it isn’t always summer. And the best option for a prospective year-round Cape Cod resident is historic, burgeoning Falmouth.
Falmouth: Falmouth, MA, is the second largest town on Cape Cod, but most Falmouthites and visitors still think of Falmouth as a quaint, sophisticated seaside village. Falmouth has over 68 miles of ocean coastline (the longest coastline on Cape Cod) and some of the most revered sunbathing beaches on the Cape. It also has a very large diversity of Real Estate price points.
There are many diverse housing choices, from single-family homes, condominiums, and townhouses to equestrian estates. Falmouth’s crown jewel, oceanfront and water-view properties, are positioned well throughout the town and are recognized for being conscious of the environmental concerns living on Cape Cod brings. Falmouth is the home of the renowned Falmouth Road Race. The 4th of July fireworks display is the best in Barnstable County and the second only to the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular at the Esplanade on the banks of the Charles River.