Truro, MA
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Key Performance Metrics
Market snapshotPerformance indicators for the Truro short-term rental market based on reliable data.
Listings
29 / 452
Reliable / Active
Cap Rate
5%
Middle-Earners Gross Yield
Revenue
$49,625
Middle-Earners Revenue
Occupancy
65%
Middle-Earners Occupancy
Home Value
$1,006,900
Median Home Sale Price
Top Earners
$90,987
Top-Earners Revenue
Truro
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Generally Investor friendly
Truro Regulations
STRs are allowed citywide under an annual Certificate of Registration with moderate but predictable requirements (e.g., $450 fee, $1M liability insurance, biannual reports, 14.45% tax, and 3% impact fee for professionally managed units). The operational rules (occupancy limits, designated person, record‑keeping, inspections) are rigorous but manageable, with no current unit cap—although pending proposals (per‑owner caps, fractional ownership bans) add some forward‑looking risk.
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About Truro
Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro. Located slightly more than 100 miles (160 km) by road from Boston, it is a summer vacation community just south of the northern tip of Cape Cod, in an area known as the "Outer Cape". English colonists named it after Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The historic Wampanoag Native American people called the area Pamet or Payomet. Their language was part of the large Algonquian family. This name was adopted for the Pamet River and the harbor area around the town center known as the Pamet Roads. The population of Truro was 2,454 at the 2020 census.Over half of the land area of the town is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore, established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, and administered by the U.S. National Park Service.