Hardwick's Two Disclosed Home Sales Bracket Prices Between $320,000 And $385,000

HARDWICK -- Eleven property deeds were recorded in Hardwick between June 19 and July 18, but only two included a stated sale price, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds records, leaving most of the period's real estate activity without a public dollar figure attached.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Registry records show 11 real estate transfers in Hardwick during the period. Of those, two disclosed a sale price: $320,000 and $385,000, for a median of $352,500. The remaining nine transactions did not include a stated consideration amount, which is common for certain deed types, including mortgage assignments, trustee transfers and transfers involving financial institutions. Because only two of 11 recorded transactions reported a price, the raw count of 11 deeds does not by itself indicate whether the local market was active or quiet in conventional sales terms -- a majority of the period's filings reflect mortgage-related or institutional transfers rather than sales between a private seller and a private buyer.

TOP SALES

Two transactions in the period disclosed a sale price. The higher was 603 Upper Church St., which sold for $385,000 on June 26. The sellers were Mark D.W. Edington and Judith G. Edington; the buyer was Eastern Bank. The second was a property recorded July 10 for $320,000, with no street address listed in the deed record; the sellers were Isaiah T. Rolfe and Roseann M. Rolfe, and the buyers were Canopy Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. The remaining nine transfers recorded in the period did not disclose a sale price and cannot be ranked among the month's highest-value transactions.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Main Street saw the most recorded activity of any street in the period, with three transfers. Two were recorded the same day, July 1, at 357 Main St. -- one listed as Unit 357, with seller Jeannette C. Teal, and one at the same street number with seller Kathryn L. White. Neither disclosed a buyer or price in the data provided. A third Main Street transfer, at 247 Main St., recorded June 23, listed seller Michael J. Reidy and buyer Emily L. Burr, also without a disclosed price.

A pair of related filings also touched Hardwick Road: a deed recorded July 10 with sellers Isaiah T. Rolfe and Roseann M. Rolfe and no street address listed, which disclosed the $320,000 sale price noted above, and a second deed the same day at 822 Hardwick Rd., with the same sellers, that did not disclose a price.

The remaining transfers were spread across individual streets -- 2214 Barre Rd., 15 East St., 2504 Greenwich Rd., 149 Clapp Rd. and 0 Lyman Rd. -- with no further street-level clustering in the period.

MARKET NOTES

Five of the 11 recorded transfers listed a mortgage company, loan servicer or bank as a buyer, seller or both: Canopy Mortgage LLC, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Wells Fargo Bank NA, Freedom Mortgage Corp, Norwich Commercial Group Inc., Rocket Mortgage LLC, Northpoint Mortgage Inc., Pennymac Loan Services LLC and Eastern Bank all appear as parties across those filings. Transactions of this kind typically reflect mortgage assignments or bank-related transfers rather than a conventional sale between a private owner and a new buyer.

One deed, recorded July 1 at 2504 Greenwich Rd., listed Robert J. Witt and Debra A. Witt, as trustees, transferring the property to Massachusetts Electric Co.

Only one deed in the period recorded a transfer directly between two named individuals with no financial institution as a party: 247 Main St., June 23, from Michael J. Reidy to Emily L. Burr. No sale price was disclosed for that transaction.

No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage figures were available in the deed data for any property in this period.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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