Auburn Property Sale Prices Remain Unrecorded for All 10 August Transfers

AUBURN -- Auburn's registry of deeds recorded 10 property transfers between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, but sale prices for every transaction remained unavailable in county records as of this report, leaving the period's dollar figures for a later accounting.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deeds were recorded in Auburn during the four-week period, spanning single-family properties, at least one lender-to-lender transfer, and transactions involving corporate buyers and sellers. Because no consideration amount had posted for any of the 10 transactions, a price range and median sale price could not be calculated for this period. Worcester County Registry of Deeds data typically shows a sale price within about a week of recording; all 10 transactions here were recorded three to four weeks before this report, longer than that typical window. The raw count of 10 recorded transfers indicates steady recording activity in Auburn for the period, though the market's pricing picture will not be clear until that data posts.

TOP SALES Sale prices were not yet available for any of the 10 transactions recorded in this period, so they cannot be ranked by price. The transfers with a recorded street address were at 112 Hampton St., 20 Hilltop Farm Rd., 70 Jerome Ave., 233 Packachoag St., 4 Mayfield Rd., 13 Marilyn Dr., 8 Woodside Ter., 12 Sharon Ave. and 206 Southbridge St., all recorded Aug. 21 or Aug. 24. One additional transfer, recorded Aug. 24, did not include a street address in the available data. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available from deed records for any property.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No two transactions in this period shared a street name. The nine addressed properties were spread across Hampton Street, Hilltop Farm Road, Jerome Avenue, Packachoag Street, Mayfield Road, Marilyn Drive, Woodside Terrace, Sharon Avenue and Southbridge Street, in different parts of town, so no street-level or neighborhood clustering emerged. Recording activity instead clustered by date: six of the 10 transfers were recorded Aug. 24 and four were recorded Aug. 21.

MARKET NOTES Three of the transactions, at 4 Mayfield Rd., 13 Marilyn Dr. and 8 Woodside Ter., listed Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as seller, with Drew Mortgage Associates Inc., Envoy Mortgage Ltd. and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., respectively, as buyer, a pattern consistent with lender-to-lender transfers rather than sales to individual homebuyers. Two transactions recorded Aug. 24 involved members of the Cowden family: one transferred a property into a trust held by Jeffrey M. Cowden and Tracey L. Cravedi as trustees, and a second, at 70 Jerome Ave., listed Jeffrey M. Cowden and Tracey L. Cowden as trustee-sellers. Two other transactions involved corporate parties rather than individual buyers: 12 Sharon Ave. was sold by Noel Dennis to Stream Innovations Inc., and 206 Southbridge St. was sold by KMK Capital Holdings LLC to Webster First Federal Credit Union. With no square-footage data available for any property, no price-per-square-foot comparisons could 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.