These were the 25 ‘hottest’ cities and towns in Massachusetts in 2015. Can they keep it up?

It could be an indicator for what’s to come in 2016.

Wayland was the No. 1 hottest town in the state, according to Lamacchia Realty’s list. Mark Lorenz for the Boston Globe

February 5, 2016

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2015 was a big year for home sales in the Bay State. The question for many towns is whether the momentum will carry through 2016.

The 2015 Massachusetts Housing Report from Waltham-based Lamacchia Realty points out that 83,961 homes sold in the state last year, a 9 percent increase from 2014. The average sale price of these homes also went up 3.6 percent.

Lamacchia Realty attributes this increase in sales to factors such as loosening mortgage guidelines, low interest rates, increased home equity, and an overall stronger local economy.

But of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts, some saw the number of home sales increase more than others.

As Anthony Lamacchia of Lamacchia Realty notes in his most recent report about the hottest housing markets of 2015, when a town or city sees a big jump in home sales from one year to another, it’s a strong indicator that it is “becoming a sought-after location for homeowners’’ – in other words, a “hot’’ market.

This could also be an indicator for what we can expect to see as the spring house hunt heats up in 2016.

Here is Lamacchia Realty’s list of the 25 hottest towns and cities in Massachusetts real estate for 2015: