Hopedale's One Disclosed Sale Sets Both High and Low Price Mark

HOPEDALE -- Ten property deeds were recorded in Hopedale between July 10 and July 16, but only one included a disclosed sale price, limiting what can be determined about the town's overall home values for the period.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deed transfers were recorded in Hopedale during the reporting period. Of those, only one listed a consideration amount: $800,000. Because just one price was disclosed, the price range and median both stand at $800,000, a figure that reflects a single transaction rather than a broad market sample. The remaining nine deeds, or 90 percent of recorded transfers, listed no sale price. The raw count of 10 recorded deeds in a single week (July 10-16) indicates recording activity was not unusually quiet, but the near-total absence of disclosed pricing means no meaningful conclusion can be drawn about where Hopedale home values stood this period.

TOP SALES The only sale with a disclosed price was a $800,000 transaction recorded July 16. The deed lists the property simply as "Hopedale, MA," with no street address specified in the record. The sellers were Kyle Host and Kelly Host; the buyers were Elizabeth Keimer and Kyle Keimer. No other recorded deed from this period included a sale price, so no additional transactions can be ranked by value.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Laurelwood Drive was the only street with more than one recorded transfer: 6 Laurelwood Dr. (July 15) and 150 Laurelwood Dr. (July 14), both with prices not disclosed. All other recorded transfers were on separate streets: 10 Gannett Way, 34 Driftway, 11 Soward St., 64 Dutcher St., 44 Westcott Rd., 13 Larkin Ln. and 211 Mendon St. Because only one sale price was disclosed, transactions cannot be meaningfully grouped into price tiers.

MARKET NOTES Two recorded deeds named financial institutions as sellers: Citizens Bank NA on the 150 Laurelwood Dr. transfer and Digital Federal Credit Union on the 64 Dutcher St. transfer; both were recorded without a disclosed price. The 44 Westcott Rd. deed transferred from "Oliva Donald J Tr" to "Oliva Donald J," consistent with a trust-to-individual transfer within the same family; no price was disclosed. The 10 Gannett Way deed, recorded the same day as the $800,000 sale and naming the same two sellers, Kyle Host and Kelly Host, also carried no disclosed price. No consideration amount was listed for the 6 Laurelwood Dr., 34 Driftway, 11 Soward St., 13 Larkin Ln. or 211 Mendon St. transfers. Deed records for this period did not specify property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family), so no breakdown by housing type is possible.

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.