At June 2026, ZIP 01752’s current Zillow ZORI is $2,668 per month, a typical observed asking-rent index blended across rental types. It is a market-level current asking signal rather than a quote for a given unit, lease, or bedroom count. The five-digit label is both Zillow’s ZIP market identifier and a Census ZCTA match. A ZCTA is a statistical area and is not identical to a USPS delivery ZIP, which matters whenever a property’s address or service ZIP is being checked.
The one-year same-month ZORI change is -0.3%, whereas same-month annualized changes remain +2.8% over three years and +5.0% over five years. Thus, the recent direction breaks from rather than confirms the longer positive path. The history has 64 monthly observations, 63 consecutive monthly returns, and 100% coverage; annualized monthly-return variability is 2.9%, with a -3.0% maximum drawdown. Transparent national discovery ranks among history-eligible ZIPs are 1,914 for momentum, 1,421 for stability, and 1,936 for the balanced measure, where lower rank is higher. These are backward-looking measurements, not forecasts or investment recommendations. Complete coverage and limited recorded variation provide more context for a current snapshot, but they do not turn an index into certainty about any available home.
Bedroom detail must be treated as modelling, not a separate observed-rent series. Scaling the ZIP ZORI through the supplied FY2026 local HUD ladder produces modelled monthly estimates of $1,883 for a studio, $2,033 for a one-bedroom, $2,668 for two bedrooms, $3,335 for three bedrooms, and $3,533 for four bedrooms. These are modelled estimates, never measured bedroom rents; the two-bedroom result equals the overall index because of the scaling method. The underlying $2,311 HUD two-bedroom FMR/SAFMR standard is an administrative, bedroom-specific standard, not asking rent. It provides the ladder used in the calculation, while Zillow supplies the blended observed asking-rent index, so neither source confirms a particular unit’s advertised rent or utility terms.
ACS provides a deliberately different affordability lens. In the matched 2024 five-year ZCTA survey, median gross rent is $1,871, or 42.6% below the Zillow asking-rent index. ACS median gross rent is a five-year survey measure of occupied renter homes and includes selected utilities; it is therefore not a current asking-rent comp. A 30% required-income screen on the current index equals $106,720 annually, compared with ZCTA median household income of $91,968. This is arithmetic, not advice or an applicant qualification rule. The same ACS survey records 4,211 of 7,329 renter households, or 57.5%, at or above the burden threshold. That area-level burden measure cannot establish what any individual renter pays or can afford.
Stock and vacancy are area aggregates rather than listing availability. The matched ZCTA contains 17,247 housing units, and renters account for 44.0% of occupied homes. The vacancy rate is 3.4%, representing 582 units, including 210 classified as vacant for rent; vacant-for-sale, seasonal, and other categories are distinct and should not be combined into a claim about a specific property. The unit mix is weighted more toward single-family structures than large multifamily structures. These counts describe housing stock and its recorded status in the ACS survey, not current rental inventory, lease-up conditions, or the odds that an individual advertised unit is open.
Scope also changes the comparison. At the Marlborough city-context scope, the reported rent is $2,668; at the Middlesex County context scope, it is $3,260; and at the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro context scope, it is $3,210. The city figure aligns with the displayed ZIP figure, while the county and metro context readings are higher. These city, county, and metro figures are wider-geography context only, not substitutions for a direct ZIP observation, and they cannot resolve differences in unit type, timing, household composition, or the survey-versus-asking-rent definitions described above.
Redfin’s direct rolling-three-month ZIP resale observation at its stated endpoint is entirely for-sale evidence, not rental transactions. It reports a $569,871 median sold price, down 10.3% year over year, with 100 homes sold and median marketing time of 22 days. Inventory was 71 homes and months of supply 2.2; the average sale-to-list ratio was 100.7%, 45.4% sold above list, and 61.2% went off market within two weeks. The annualized ZORI divided by median price is 5.6%, a cross-source screening ratio only, not a measure of property-level income or financial performance. The resale price contraction confirms the direction of asking-rent cooling but is much sharper; meanwhile supply and sale-to-list signals challenge a simple weak-market characterization. Those signals indicate observed resale liquidity and pricing behavior, without describing rental comps, tenant demand, or causation.
All figures also have source and timing limits: ZORI is an asking-rent index, ACS is a five-year survey with stated margins of error, HUD is an administrative standard, and Redfin is a rolling resale series. At property level, check the live advertised amount, unit size and bedroom count, utilities billed to the tenant, lease term and concessions, availability date, the delivery ZIP’s relationship to the ZCTA, and, for resale information, list history, closing date, property type, and transaction status. Neither area vacancy, burden, ZORI, modelled bedroom estimate, nor an aggregated sale statistic proves the price, occupancy, utility cost, affordability, or resale behavior of a particular property. Does the specific property’s documented rent, utility terms, bedroom configuration, and transaction status match the relevant measure rather than an aggregate proxy?