Grant Road deed is the only Harvard sale to disclose a price in August

HARVARD -- Ten property transfers were recorded in Harvard between Aug. 7 and Sept. 5, but only one deed listed a sale price, leaving most of the period's activity undocumented by dollar figure in county records.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten sales were recorded in Harvard during the period. Of those, only one deed disclosed a sale price: $575,000, for a Grant Road transaction between the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and Grant Rd LLC. Because a price was reported on just one of the 10 filings, the town's price range and median sale price are both $575,000, the single disclosed figure. With nine of 10 deeds carrying no listed consideration, the available data does not support a conclusion about whether the period was more or less active than usual; the raw count of 10 recorded transfers is reported here without comparison to prior periods or other towns.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a disclosed price was recorded Aug. 13: a property tied to Grant Road sold for $575,000, transferred from the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency to Grant Rd LLC. A second deed recorded the same day, for 77 Grant Rd, listed the identical seller and buyer but no price; it may represent an additional parcel or interest connected to the same transaction, though the record does not specify. Price was not disclosed for the remaining eight sales, so no further price-based ranking is possible for this period. Those eight, in order recorded, were: 6 Trail Ridge Way Unit C (Aug. 12, sellers Trail Ridge Way Unit C and Bluestone Bank), 43 Park Lane (Aug. 11, sellers Loomis Living Trust and Nicholas Loomis, trustee), 204 Ayer Road (Aug. 11, seller Harvard Lanes Realty LLC), 9 St. Johns Lane (Aug. 10, sellers Citizens Bank NA and Richard G. Hunnewell), 244 Stow Road (Aug. 10, sellers Citizens Bank NA and Steven J. Gordon), 8 Sholan Circle (Aug. 10, sellers Simon Allen, trustee, and Tina Allen, trustee), 37 Glenview Drive (Aug. 7, sellers Peter Stephen Ofsthun and Heather Lynn Ofsthun) and 78 Barnum Road (Aug. 7, seller Skilled Trades Partners). Buyers were not listed in the source data for these eight transfers.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Grant Road was the only street with more than one recorded transfer: two deeds there, both dated Aug. 13 and both involving the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency as seller and Grant Rd LLC as buyer. The other eight sales were spread across eight separate streets, Trail Ridge Way, Park Lane, Ayer Road, St. Johns Lane, Stow Road, Sholan Circle, Glenview Drive and Barnum Road, with no other street repeating. Because sale price was disclosed for only one of the 10 transactions, a price-tier breakdown cannot be constructed for this period.

MARKET NOTES Citizens Bank NA appears as a co-seller on two deeds recorded the same day, Aug. 10, at 9 St. Johns Lane and 244 Stow Road, each alongside an individual co-seller. Two other transfers involved trusts: 43 Park Lane, sold by the Loomis Living Trust with Nicholas Loomis as trustee, and 8 Sholan Circle, sold by Simon Allen and Tina Allen as trustees. The Grant Road parcels changed hands from a state finance agency to a limited liability company. Beyond these seller types, the data does not include square footage, bedroom or bathroom counts for any property, so no price-per-square-foot comparison or property-type breakdown by size is possible for 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.