Harvard home sale prices remain unrecorded weeks after eight properties change hands

HARVARD -- Eight properties changed ownership in Harvard between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, according to deeds recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds, but sale prices for all eight transactions had not yet reached the registry as of this report.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded nine documents affecting Harvard property during the period. One of those, dated Sept. 16, was a mortgage naming Rocket Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as grantee alongside sellers Donna and Jeffrey Fitzgerald; it is a financing instrument, not a property sale, and is excluded from the sales count below. That leaves eight actual property transfers for the period. None of the eight had a recorded sale price as of this report. Price data typically appears at the registry within about a week of recording, so a price range and median cannot yet be calculated. Based on transaction count alone, eight transfers in a four-week window is a typical volume for Harvard, a small town with a limited housing stock.

TOP SALES

No ranking by price is possible this period because sale prices for all eight transfers are not yet available. The eight properties, in order of recording date, are: 45 South Shaker Road (Sept. 16), 31 Still River Depot Road (Sept. 15), 87 Oak Hill Road (Sept. 15), 37 Old Littleton Road (Sept. 14), 31 Depot Road (Sept. 14), 73 Brown Road (Sept. 14), 35 Lancaster County Road Unit 7A (Sept. 14) and 77 Pinnacle Road (Sept. 11). Buyer names were not provided in the deed data for any of these eight transfers.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

The eight transfers are spread across eight different streets, with no single street accounting for more than one sale. Two of the streets share part of a name, Still River Depot Road and Depot Road, but they are distinct roads. Because no sale prices are available, transfers cannot be grouped into price tiers this period.

MARKET NOTES

Two of the eight transfers list trustees as sellers rather than individuals: 37 Old Littleton Road, sold by Fernando and Michelle D. Catalina as trustees, and 31 Depot Road, sold by Jamie L. and Joseph A. Spinelli as trustees. The 35 Lancaster County Road transfer, for a condominium unit, listed Digital Federal Credit Union as a co-seller alongside Susan W. Ginouves, indicating lender involvement in that transfer. The Sept. 16 mortgage recording involving Rocket Mortgage and the Fitzgeralds, while not a sale, shows that refinancing activity was also recorded in Harvard during the period. No bed, bath or square-footage data was available from the deed records for any property, and with no sale prices recorded yet, no price-per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made 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.