Disclosed Oakham Sale Prices Span Wide Range From $10,662 to $500,762

OAKHAM -- Eight properties changed hands in Oakham between July 3 and Aug. 1, according to deeds recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds, but sale prices were disclosed in only three of those transactions, limiting what can be said about the month's overall market direction.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded eight property transfers during the period. Of those, three listed a consideration amount, ranging from $10,662 to $500,762, with a median of $239,750 among the disclosed sales. Because five of the eight transfers carried no listed price, the raw count of eight recorded deeds does not by itself indicate whether the local market was active or quiet; the transfers included private sales, a bank/trustee transaction and a trust-to-trust transfer, in addition to conventional sales.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was a $500,762 sale that closed July 10, with sellers Joshua Lowe and Allison Lowe and buyers listed as United Wholesale Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. No street address was listed in the deed record for this property beyond "Oakham, MA."

The second-highest disclosed sale was 47 Ware Corner Road, which sold for $239,750 on July 10. The seller was listed as E Real Estate LLC; no buyer name was included in the deed record.

The third disclosed sale was 2204 Old Turnpike Road, which sold for $10,662 on July 9. Sellers Emily Cataldo and Emily E. Cataldo transferred the property to buyers Dynamic Cleaning Inc. and ServiceMaster.

No bed, bath or square-footage figures were available from the deed records for any property.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Old Turnpike Road saw two separate transfers during the period: 2204 Old Turnpike Road, which sold for $10,662, and 2266 Old Turnpike Road, sold July 10 by Pawel Zawistowski and Rafal Zawistowski with no price disclosed. No other street recorded more than one transaction.

Among the three disclosed sales, one fell above $500,000 (the undisclosed-address property at $500,762), one fell in the $100,000-$500,000 range ($239,750 on Ware Corner Road), and one fell under $50,000 ($10,662 on Old Turnpike Road). The remaining five transfers -- at 70 Skyline Drive, 2266 Old Turnpike Road, 25 Edson Road, 0 Bullard Road and 16 Farm Pond Road -- carried no listed sale price and cannot be placed into a price tier.

MARKET NOTES Only three of the eight recorded deeds, or 38%, included a disclosed sale price, meaning most of the month's transaction values are not publicly available through the registry filing. The transfers also included some transactions outside a typical owner-to-owner home sale: the 25 Edson Road transfer listed a bank (Operative Bank) and a trustee (Kenneth E. Housman Sr., TR) as sellers, while 16 Farm Pond Road was transferred between two trusts under the same corporate trustee, U.S. Bank Trust NA, moving from the Chateau Series VI Trust to the Tiki Series VI Trust. The 2204 Old Turnpike Road sale involved two commercial buyers, Dynamic Cleaning Inc. and ServiceMaster, rather than individual homebuyers. With sqft data unavailable across all eight records, no price-per-square-foot comparison could be calculated this period.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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