Best Places To Buy An Affordable Vacation Home: Hyannis, Mass - The housing bubble popped painfully in many popular second-home areas. Median values fell 10% to 20% in the past year alone and are expected to bottom in the next 12 months.

CNN Money - April 09, 2009

(CNNMoney.com) Median home: $244,000. What it's like: You don't have to be a Kennedy to afford a perch in this picture-perfect Cape Cod town, which boasts four Nantucket Sound beaches within walking distance of shops. Check out: Homes surrounding Hyannis's downtown, many of which have been upgraded recently. This article first appeared on the CNNMoney.com website April 9, 2009.

Brian Serpone can be reached in the Harwich office of Today Real Estate at 508-568-8104.