
Tracking 1,301 properties across Easton, Massachusetts — a community where the median home dates to 1981 and the oldest to 1750. Every parcel mapped with building characteristics, environmental exposure, hazard risk, and ownership history assembled from 140+ sources.
Easton is a suburban town in the northern part of Bristol County, home to Stonehill College and the Ames family estate complex — Easton was the base of the Ames Shovel Company, which built many of the town's most distinctive buildings in the 19th century. The town center, designed in part by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, has an unusual architectural coherence for a New England community.
The housing stock ranges from the historic Ames-era buildings and surrounding Victorian homes to the post-war suburban development that fills most of the town's residential land. For property professionals, Easton is a solid suburban market with good schools, moderate assessed values, and a housing stock that spans enough eras to create meaningful variation in building condition and systems.
FEMA flood zones, fire protection grades, radon — parcel by parcel
306 properties (24%) are in FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas, where flood insurance is required for federally-backed mortgages.
Fire protection grades reflect proximity to fire stations and hydrant infrastructure. Grade affects insurance pricing in every New England state.
1,301 properties · Median year built 1981 · Avg 937 sf
Recorded transactions from Bristol County Registry of Deeds
NE Provenance tracks recorded deeds, mortgages, and liens for 80% of Easton properties. Ownership intelligence includes transaction history, entity detection, portfolio identification, and lien analysis — assembled from public registry records into a single property-level profile.
Bristol County · Massachusetts
Easton covers 29.2 square miles in Bristol County, Massachusetts. The median assessed property value is $45K.
Single-family homes account for 161 of Easton's 1,301 properties and 133 multi-family buildings. There are 53 commercial properties and 340 parcels of vacant land. About 17% of properties are owner-occupied, and 3% are owned by someone out of state.
Assessed values range widely — the middle 50% of properties fall between $7K and $401K, with the highest assessed property at $137.3M. For professionals working in this market, the value spread tells you a lot about what you'll encounter door to door.
Most properties rely on private septic systems, and 82% have public water service. Electric service is provided by TOWN OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH - (MA).
Easton's fire protection grade distribution (6 Grade A, 251 Grade B) directly affects premium calculation. Parcel-level hazard data provides the granularity that ZIP-level aggregation misses.
Insurance solutionsEaston's 9 property types, spanning construction from 1750 to present, require local market knowledge for accurate comparable selection and valuation. NEP assembles building characteristics, environmental exposure, and condition signals into a single property profile.
Real estate solutionsCollateral assessment requires flood zone verification, environmental screening, and ownership chain validation. 24% of Easton properties are in SFHAs where flood insurance is a federal lending requirement. NEP provides property-level compliance data from public records.
Lending solutionsUnderstanding a property's construction era, environmental exposure, and building characteristics before arriving on site transforms inspection from discovery to verification.
Inspection solutions1,301 Easton properties — each with risk profiles, building data, permit history, and ownership analysis from 140+ sources. Open any property and see the full picture.

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