Financial Institutions Are Sellers in Five of Twelve July Deed Transfers

SUNDERLAND -- The Franklin County Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transfers in Sunderland between July 10 and July 23, but only one included a disclosed sale price, limiting what can be said about the town's overall price trends this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Twelve deeds were recorded for Sunderland properties during the period, but sale prices were disclosed in just one of those 12 transactions. That single disclosed sale, at 35 Country Lane, closed at $200,000, making it both the low and high end of the town's reported price range and its de facto median. Because 11 of 12 transactions withheld consideration amounts, the town's actual price range and median for the period cannot be determined from this data. The raw count of 12 recorded deeds indicates a active pace of paperwork moving through the registry, though it includes bank and trust transfers alongside conventional sales, so it does not by itself indicate how many were arm's-length purchases at market value.

TOP SALES

35 Country Lane sold for $200,000 on July 15. The seller was listed as Mathew Hebert, trustee of an irrevocable trust, and the buyer was Citizens Bank NA. No other transaction in the dataset carries a disclosed price, so a full ranking of the period's highest sales by dollar value is not possible. Among the remaining transfers, several involved financial institutions as sellers, a pattern discussed below: 34 Ledgewood Drive (UMassFive College Federal Credit Union to Betsy Frederick, July 23), 249 River Rd (Florence Bank and Florence Savings Bank to Julie Hanieski, July 21), and 290 Montague Road (Greenfield Savings Bank to Wendi J. Rose, July 10). Prices for these transactions were not disclosed.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Montague Road saw two transfers on the same day, July 10: 290 Montague Road (Greenfield Savings Bank to Wendi J. Rose) and 357 Montague Road (Robyn Rodman, as trustee of the Linda J. Cutler Trust, to Robyn Rodman individually). North Plain Road also had two transfers on the same day, July 13, recorded under slightly different address formats: 90 North Plain Road (Operative Bank and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Ellis S. and Helaine W. Delphin) and 87 N Plain Road (John Carey and Solar Mosaic Inc. as sellers). The remaining eight transfers were single sales on Ledgewood Drive, River Rd, Pine Ct, Country Lane, Sycamore Meadow Road, Reservation Road, and Garage Road, each on a different street. By price tier, only one transaction, the $200,000 sale on Country Lane, falls into a known bracket; the price tier of the other 11 sales cannot be determined from available data.

MARKET NOTES

Financial institutions or their servicing entities appear as sellers in five of the 12 transactions: UMassFive College Federal Credit Union (twice, at Ledgewood Drive and Garage Road), Florence Bank/Florence Savings Bank (River Rd), Operative Bank/Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. (North Plain Road), and Greenfield Savings Bank (Montague Road). Three transactions show sellers and buyers linked by trust or family structures rather than outside third parties: the Pine Court transfer moved from Bridgette and Marc R. Laurens individually into Marc R. Laurens and Bridgette Laurens as trustees; the Country Lane transaction involved Mathew Hebert as trustee of an irrevocable trust, alongside a related unaddressed filing also listing Hebert and the trust; and the Montague Road transfer at 357 moved from Robyn Rodman as trustee of the Linda J. Cutler Trust to Robyn Rodman individually. One condominium unit, at 17 Sycamore Meadow Road within the Buttonball Meadow Condominium complex, was the only condo transaction recorded; the rest of the filings appear to be single-family or unspecified property types, as deed records do not indicate property type directly. No bed, bath, or square footage data is available from deed records for any of the 12 transactions, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made this period.

Recorded Deeds

Source: Registry of Deeds. Sale amounts shown as recorded; transfers without a disclosed consideration are noted as such.

Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.