Blackstone Sale Prices Remain Scarce as Most June Deeds Lack Values

BLACKSTONE -- Nine property transfers were recorded in Blackstone between June 26 and July 25, but Worcester County Registry of Deeds data shows a sale price for only two of them, leaving most of the month's activity without a dollar figure attached as of this report.

MARKET OVERVIEW Nine deed transfers were recorded in Blackstone during the period. Of those, three were nominal-consideration transfers, recorded for token amounts that do not reflect market value and are excluded from any price range or median calculation. Four more sales have no price yet listed in the registry data, a lag that typically resolves within about a week of recording and does not indicate the parties withheld the figure. That leaves two transfers with recorded prices, $31,509 and $589,821, for a combined range of $31,509 to $589,821. The midpoint of those two figures is $310,665, but with only two priced transactions, that number reflects the average of a two-sale sample rather than a market-wide median, and it is too small a sample to characterize the period as active or quiet by price alone. The overall count of nine recorded transfers, however, is a reasonable volume for a single month in a town of Blackstone's size.

TOP SALES The highest-priced recorded transfer in the period was in Blackstone for $589,821, sold June 29 by Stephanie Lombard and Timothy Kurker to Ronald L. Lombard Jr. and Angela M. Lombard. The deed record did not include a specific street address. The second and only other priced transfer was 8 Susan Drive, which sold June 26 for $31,509; the seller was George Boras and the buyers were Massachusetts Electric Co. and National Grid, a pairing that points to a utility-related acquisition rather than a conventional home sale. No other transfers recorded in the period carried a price in the available data, so no additional entries can be ranked among the top sales this month.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street in the dataset had more than one recorded transfer, so no street-level clustering emerged this period. By price tier, the two priced sales split across different brackets: one under $500,000 (8 Susan Drive, $31,509) and one over $500,000 (the unaddressed Blackstone transfer at $589,821). Three properties, 203 Lincoln St., 141 Summer St. and 0 Elm St., changed hands for nominal consideration and fall outside any price tier. The remaining four, 1204 Social St., 39 Montcalm Ave., 97 Blackstone St. and 251 Mendon St., have no price yet available in the data.

MARKET NOTES Two of the three nominal-consideration transfers appear to keep the same family on both sides of the deed, based on shared surnames and trust designations in the names provided. The transfer at 203 Lincoln St. moved from William P. Foley, trustee of the Foley Living Trust, to William P. Foley, trustee of the Survivors Trust. The transfer at 141 Summer St. moved from Michael G. Czerkowicz and Michael Czerkowicz to Michael G. Czerkowicz, trustee, and Kimberly Ann V. Czerkowicz, trustee. The nominal-consideration transfer at 0 Elm St., from Patrick J. Hazlett to James E. Read, trustee of the Elm Street Realty Trust, does not share a surname between grantor and grantee, so no family pattern can be inferred there. Several of the transfers still awaiting a recorded price involve banks or mortgage-servicing entities rather than individual buyers and sellers: U.S. Bank NA appears as seller at 97 Blackstone St., Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. appear as seller at 39 Montcalm Ave., and Dean Cooperative Bank appears as seller at 1204 Social St. Beds, baths and square footage were not available in the deed data for any property this period, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons could be made.

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.