If family plans are in the future, Cranston isn’t a bad place to start.
The city saw one of the most significant jumps in the Metro & East Bay areas in terms of single-family home sales, increasing from 825 to 884 by the end of 2016, according to a from State-Wide Multiple Listing Service, Inc. That total is more than 200 more homes than the next closest city, Providence, at 576. Despite the increase, Cranston still sits in second behind Warwick, which holds the state lead at 1,303 sales.