East Longmeadow, MA Home for Rent

When East Longmeadow resident Bill Fiore travels out of state and tells people he’s from Massachusetts, he clarifies he’s not from Boston. “I say, ‘I’m from Western Massachusetts, where we keep the cows.’” There’s not as much livestock grazing these days in East Longmeadow, a one-time farming village that’s developed into a suburban town stretching from Springfield’s southern limits to the Connecticut state line. “You go down a side street, and there will be a development. Most of those have been farms,” says Fiore, a sales associate with William Raveis Real Estate. The town’s character has changed, but traces of its country roots remain. A few horse pastures still dot East Longmeadow, as do farms that serve kids locally churned ice cream after summer baseball games and sell families Christmas trees every fall and winter. This blend of rustic trimmings and bedroom community has made the town of 16,000 people a desirable destination for homebuyers working in the Springfield and Hartford areas; homes sell in an average of 22 days, twice as fast as the national average. In fact, Fiore says East Longmeadow is one of the three most in-demand communities around Springfield among buyers.