Bank-related entities named in majority of Bolton's September property transfers

BOLTON -- Fifteen property transfers were recorded in Bolton between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds filings, but sale prices for all 15 had not yet been entered into the public record as of Oct. 10.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 15 property transfers in Bolton during the period, but consideration amounts were not available for any of them at the time of this report. As a result, no price range or median sale price can be calculated for September. Registry data typically shows a recorded price within about a week of filing, so prices for this batch may appear in the coming days. Taken purely by count, 15 recorded transfers in a single town over a 30-day span is a sizable number, though a notable share of them are tied to lenders or mortgage servicers rather than conventional sales between private owners, which affects how the raw count should be read.

TOP SALES Because no sale prices were available for any of the 15 transactions, they cannot be ranked by price this period. Among the transfers recorded: 18 Village Lane changed hands Sept. 21, with Wells Fargo Bank NA and Sonyvet Cruz Velazquez named as parties. A unit at 18 Village Lane (Unit 4) transferred Sept. 17 between the Craftsman Village Bolton Community Umbrella Trust and Peacock Properties LLC. A property at 34 Wheeler Road transferred Sept. 18, naming Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc and Susan Sserunkuma Wilkinson. A transfer at 78 Kettle Hole Road on Sept. 17 named Kenji Hayao and Victoria Weston Hayao, both listed as trustees. At 60 Sugar Road, Bank of America NA and Susan Barrett were named in a Sept. 17 filing.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Sugar Road saw two transfers in the period: 60 Sugar Road (Sept. 17) and 42 Sugar Road (Sept. 15). Village Lane also saw two filings tied to the same street address, 18 Village Lane and 18 Village Lane Unit 4, recorded four days apart. The remaining 11 transfers were spread across individual streets, including Wheeler Road, South Bolton Road, East Main Street, Lancaster Road, Fox Run Road, Hudson Road, Houghton Farm Lane, Sanders Lane, Green Road and an entry listed only as "Bolton, MA" without a specific street address. No other street-level clustering emerged in the data.

MARKET NOTES A majority of this period's recorded transfers, at least eight of the 15, named a bank, credit union or mortgage-related entity (Wells Fargo, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, Bank of America, TD Bank, Digital Federal Credit Union, Main Street Bank, NewRez LLC and U.S. Bank Trust NA) as a grantor or grantee, a pattern consistent with foreclosure or lender-involved filings rather than typical owner-to-owner sales. Three transfers named parties sharing the same surname, Hayao, Smalley and Goegel, consistent with transfers within the same family or into or out of a family trust; the data does not indicate why these transfers occurred. Property types among the transfers included at least one condominium unit (18 Village Lane Unit 4) and at least one transfer to a utility, Massachusetts Electric Co, at 58 East Main Street. One entry, naming only seller Jennifer Affannato with no street address or buyer listed, appears to be an incomplete record in the dataset. Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures are not available from deed records for any of the properties listed.

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.