Peterborough NH Real Estate & Homes for Sale

There are 31 active MLS listings for homes in Peterborough right now. Asking prices currently run from $309,900 to $3,795,000. 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 Peterborough currently average $1,054,910 with a median asking price of $749,000. Averages move with the mix of homes on the market at any moment, so treat them as a snapshot rather than a valuation.

The homes for sale in Peterborough right now break down as: single family homes (24), condos (5), income properties (2). Use the filters on the listings on this page to narrow to the kind of property you want.

The active listings in Peterborough have been on the market for an average of 164 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.

Use the Get Alerts button at the top of this page — it saves exactly this search and emails you when a matching listing hits the MLS. Or contact our local team and tell us what you're looking for; we watch this market every day.

Peterborough, NH uses ZIP code 03458. The town is in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.

Peterborough's 2025 total property tax rate is $22.35 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.

Peterborough is in Hillsborough County in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire. Its main village lies along the Contoocook River at the junction of U.S. Route 202 and NH Route 101. The town is about 38 miles west of Manchester and 72 miles northwest of Boston, and its southeast corner rises to South Pack Monadnock in Miller State Park.

Peterborough is known for the MacDowell Colony, a wooded artists' retreat where Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town, whose Grover's Corners is thought to be modeled on the town. It also established the first tax-supported free public library in the United States in 1833, and the Peterborough Players have performed professional repertory theatre there since 1933.

Miller State Park, in the southeast corner of town, includes South Pack Monadnock, at 2,290 feet the highest point in Hillsborough County. The Edward MacDowell Dam and Lake recreation area offers swimming, boating, hiking, cross-country skiing, picnicking and disc golf. The town also has trails, kayaking, cycling and small lakes for fishing and ice skating, and is a popular bird-watching spot.