Portsmouth NH Real Estate & Homes for Sale

There are 117 active MLS listings for homes in Portsmouth right now. Asking prices currently run from $150,000 to $35,000,000. 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 Portsmouth currently average $1,616,925 with a median asking price of $815,000. 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 Portsmouth right now break down as: condos (68), single family homes (42), income properties (5), mobile & manufactured homes (2). Use the filters on the listings on this page to narrow to the kind of property you want.

The active listings in Portsmouth have been on the market for an average of 76 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.

Portsmouth, NH uses ZIP code 03801. The town is in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

Portsmouth's 2025 total property tax rate is $11.51 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.

Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County in southeastern New Hampshire, on the Piscataqua River, which forms the boundary with Maine. Kittery, Maine, sits across the river. Interstate 95, U.S. Route 1 and NH Route 1A pass through the city, Boston is about 55 miles to the south and Portland, Maine, about 53 miles to the northeast.

Portsmouth is known as a historic seaport and summer destination. The 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and the John Paul Jones House is the only surviving property in the country tied to the naval hero. Market Square, Strawbery Banke and the waterfront Prescott Park draw visitors downtown.

Portsmouth has notable Colonial, Georgian and Federal style houses, some now museums, and its downtown is built of brick Federal-style stores and townhouses that went up after early 19th-century fires. A Historic District Commission protects much of that architecture. Houses for sale in Portsmouth NH range from homes in the historic core to properties in neighborhoods farther from downtown.