Effingham NH Real Estate & Homes for Sale

There are 13 active MLS listings for homes in Effingham right now. Asking prices currently run from $259,000 to $3,250,000. This page reads the live feed, so the count changes as homes come on the market and go under contract.

Active listings for homes in Effingham currently average $885,530 with a median asking price of $599,990. Averages move with the mix of homes on the market at any moment, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a valuation.

The active listings in Effingham have been on the market for an average of 67 days so far. Well-priced homes move faster than that average, so if you are watching this market it pays to see new listings the day they appear.

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Effingham, NH uses ZIP code 03882. The town is in Carroll County, New Hampshire.

Effingham's 2025 total property tax rate is $15.38 per $1,000 of assessed value (municipal, county, local and state education combined), per the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration. Village or water districts can add to it, and the bill depends on the assessed value, not the sale price.

Effingham is in Carroll County, New Hampshire, on the Maine border. It borders Freedom to the north, Parsonsfield, Maine, to the east, Wakefield to the southeast and Ossipee to the west, with the Ossipee River along its northern line. State routes 25 and 153 serve the town.

Effingham includes the villages of Effingham Falls, Effingham (also called Lord's Hill), Center Effingham (Drake's Corner) and South Effingham. Effingham Falls developed by 1859 into a small mill town with a woolen factory, five sawmills, three gristmills and a carriage factory.

Province Lake lies partly within Effingham to the south, and two parts of Ossipee Lake, Broad Bay and Berry Bay, are inside the town to the north. Pine River State Forest is in the south of town, and the Pine and South rivers flow to the Ossipee River.

Per New Hampshire historical marker number 83, Effingham was home to the state's first normal school, opened in 1830 in the Effingham Union Academy building, erected in 1819. The town also sits over part of the largest stratified-drift aquifer in New Hampshire, in the Ossipee River subwatershed.