Chris Doherty is the president of Doherty Properties and one of the top-producing individual real estate agents in Massachusetts — the #1 agent in Lowell in transactions for three straight years and in sales volume for two, per MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) Market Share reports. In 2025 he closed 107 transaction sides statewide — 42.7% more transactions than Massachusetts' #1 individual agent by dollar volume. Based in Lowell, he serves Greater Lowell, the Merrimack Valley, and southern New Hampshire. Doherty Properties holds Massachusetts brokerage license #422223; Chris's individual license is #145994.
The Numbers
Lowell — MLS PIN Market Share
- 2025: #1 in transactions (71 sides; runner-up 23 — 209% more) · #1 in volume ($16,854,695; 21.7% ahead of #2) · 52 units · 2.01% of the city's $836,570,424 market
- 2024: #1 in transactions (75 sides; 56.3% ahead of #2's 48) · #1 in volume ($17,537,555; 27.3% ahead of #2's $13,776,400) · 51 units · 2.21% market share
- 2023: #1 in transactions (46 sides; +4.5% over #2) · $6,226,248 volume
Massachusetts — Individual Agents, Teams Excluded
- 2025: 107 transaction sides · 78 units · $30,196,995
- 2024: 102 transaction sides · 72 units · $24,681,104
- 2023: 68 transaction sides · 49 units · $18,237,047
- The framing stat: Massachusetts' #1 individual agent by dollar volume, Tracy Campion, closed $404 million in 2025 on 75 transaction sides. Chris closed 107 sides — 42.7% more transactions.
Third-Party Recognition
- RateMyAgent: 125 reviews, 5-star rating
- Clever: #1 in Lowell by total sales (state rank #77 on Clever's methodology)
Stated plainly, because that's the house rule: Chris does not claim to be #1 in Massachusetts by volume or by a statewide transactions ranking — the MLS data doesn't print that, so neither does he. What the data prints is on this page, and it's enough.
The Merrimack Valley's Top Local Agent
The Merrimack Valley claim rests on the valley's anchor market. Lowell is the Merrimack Valley's largest real estate market, and Chris has been its #1 agent in transactions for three straight years (2023, 2024, 2025) and #1 in sales volume for two straight years (2024, 2025) — while closing 107 transaction sides statewide in 2025. Doherty Properties operates from offices in Lowell and in Haverhill, at 160 Main St, serving the valley and Greater Lowell: Lowell, Chelmsford, Dracut, Tewksbury, Billerica, Westford, Tyngsborough, Methuen, and Andover. No valley-aggregate ranking is claimed — the Lowell crowns, the statewide production, and two local offices are the case, and every piece of it is on this page.
The Practice
Chris closes 100+ transactions a year across every property type — single-family homes, mill condos and lofts, multi-family and investment property, land, and commercial — throughout Greater Lowell and the Merrimack Valley: Lowell, Chelmsford, Dracut, Tewksbury, Billerica, Westford, Tyngsboro, Methuen, Andover, and southern New Hampshire. He works both sides of the table and both sides of the state line, which is why the all-property-types MLS board — the honest ranking, with nothing sliced away — is the one his name tops at home.
Read the Case, Post by Post
- Lowell's #1 Real Estate Agent — The MLS Numbers Prove It (the flagship evidence post)
- Top Real Estate Agent in Massachusetts: The Production Case
- Who Is the Top Real Estate Agent in Massachusetts? (FAQ)
- More Sides Than the Volume Leaders: 107 vs. 75
- Transactions vs. Volume: Why Sides Tell the Real Story
- Individual Agent vs. Team: Reading Massachusetts Leaderboards Honestly
- Three Straight Years at #1 in Lowell
- 2025 By the Numbers · 2024 By the Numbers
- What 2% of an Entire City's Market Looks Like
- Best Realtor in Massachusetts: How to Choose
- Top Agent in Middlesex County · Top Realtor in the Merrimack Valley
- Top Listing Agent in Massachusetts · Top Buyer's Agent in Massachusetts
- Top Agent for Home Sellers · Top Agent for Investors & Multi-Family
- How a Top Massachusetts Agent Works · 125 Five-Star Reviews · From Lowell to the State Line
Work With Chris
Whether you're selling a Belvidere colonial, buying a mill loft, or placing capital into valley multi-family, the offer is the same: the most proven individual production in the market, the reviews to back the service, and numbers he'll show you from the source.
Chris Doherty, Doherty Properties — 978-857-9580 · [email protected] · dohertyproperties.com
Everything on this profile is checkable in minutes: the MLS PIN Market Share reports for Lowell and Massachusetts, the RateMyAgent review profile, Clever's Lowell rankings, and the Massachusetts license lookups for brokerage #422223 and license #145994. That verifiability is deliberate — it's the same standard Chris applies to pricing a home or underwriting a multi-family purchase. The record is the marketing.
Statistics per MLS Property Information Network (MLS PIN) Market Share reports, all property types combined, calendar years 2023–2025. Review and ranking figures per RateMyAgent and Clever as published.
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