Athol's Two Disclosed August Home Sales Span $200,001 to $522,500 Range

ATHOL -- Eleven property deeds were recorded in Athol between Aug. 7 and Sept. 5, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds records, but only two of those transactions listed a sale price. The disclosed prices ranged from $200,001 to $522,500, with a median of $361,250.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Eleven deeds were recorded during the four-week period. Of those, two listed a sale price: $200,001 and $522,500, producing a median of $361,250. The other nine transactions did not disclose a price, which is common in deed records and does not necessarily indicate the properties changed hands for free or at unusual terms. With price data available for only two of 11 recorded transactions, the raw count of 11 does not by itself indicate whether the period was more or less active than usual; no comparative data for prior months was available to make that assessment.

TOP SALES

1179 Main St. sold for $522,500 on Aug. 10. The sellers were listed as Kleber Vieira Daluz and Ana Ventura Silveira Arruda; the buyers were listed as Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and United Wholesale Mortgage LLC. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed record.

62 Western Ave. sold for $200,001 on Aug. 11. The seller was listed as Nancy J. Ouellette; the buyers were listed as Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed record.

The remaining nine recorded sales, at 481 Silver Lake St., 82 Beacon St., 410 Pinedale Ave., 621 Lenox St., 135 Oak Ave., 38 Euclid St., 190 Adams Dr., 89 Tremont St. and an unspecified Athol address, did not list a sale price, so they cannot be ranked among the period's top sales by dollar value.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

No two sales in the period shared a street name; the 11 transactions were spread across 10 different streets plus one unspecified Athol address. By price tier, one sale fell under $500,000 (62 Western Ave. at $200,001) and one fell in the $500,000-to-$1 million range (1179 Main St. at $522,500). The remaining nine sales, representing the majority of the period's activity, had no disclosed price and cannot be sorted into a tier.

MARKET NOTES

Deed records did not specify property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family) for any of the 11 transactions, and bedroom, bathroom and square footage figures were not available for any sale. Several deeds involved mortgage-servicing or lending entities as sellers or buyers, including Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, loanDepot.com LLC, Prestige Home Mortgage LLC, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. and United Wholesale Mortgage LLC; these entities appeared in five of the 11 recorded transactions. Two deeds carried indicators of within-family or trust-related transfers: the 481 Silver Lake St. transaction listed both sellers with a "TR" (trustee) designation, and the 89 Tremont St. transaction listed sellers under closely matching names (Rebecca Martin and Rebecca L. Martin). No motivation for these transfers was stated in the deed data.

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.