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**Exhibit 31.2**

I, Harold Brown,certify that:

1.                  Ihave reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of New EnglandRealty Associates Limited Partnership for the period ended March 31, 2006;

2.                  Basedon my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement ofa material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make thestatements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements weremade, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.                  Basedon my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial informationincluded in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects thefinancial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant asof, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.                  Theregistrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishingand maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined inExchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d — 15(f)) for theregistrant and have:

a)                Designedsuch disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the registrant, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;

b)               Designedsuch internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal controlover financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to providereasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and thepreparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance withgenerally accepted accounting principles;

c)                Evaluatedthe effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and presented in thisreport our conclusion about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls andprocedures, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report basedon such evaluation; and

d)               Disclosedin this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financialreporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter thathas materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially affect, theregistrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5.                  Theregistrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our mostrecent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to theregistrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board ofdirectors (or persons performing the equivalent function):

a)                Allsignificant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation ofinternal controls which are reasonably likely to adversely affect theregistrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial; and

b)               Any fraud, whetheror not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the registrant’s internal controls over financialreporting.
|                     | /s/  HAROLD BROWN         |
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|                | Principal Financial Officer         |
| Date: May 10,  2006 | (Treasurer and Director of the      |
|                | Partnership’s General Partner, |
|                | NewReal, Inc.)                 |

 

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