Brookfield Logs 14 Property Transfers as Sale Prices Remain Unrecorded

BROOKFIELD -- Fourteen property transfers were recorded in Brookfield between June 19 and July 18, but none carried a sale price in the registry data available for this report, leaving the month's market activity impossible to measure by price.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 14 property transfers in Brookfield during the period. Three of those carried only nominal consideration, meaning they recorded a token amount, often $1 or $10, and are not counted as market sales. For the remaining 11 transfers, no sale price had yet reached the registry's data at the time of this report. Because no transfer in this period has a recorded sale price, a price range and median cannot be calculated this month, and the overall activity level cannot be assessed from price data alone. The raw count of 14 recorded transfers represents all property transactions logged with the registry for Brookfield during this period.

TOP SALES No sale prices were available for any of the 14 transfers recorded in Brookfield this period, so transactions cannot be ranked by price at this time. The properties involved include 144 Rice Corner Rd., 8 Mockingbird Lane, 91 Webber Rd., 15 Main St., 17 South Maple St., 5 Rice Corner Cross Rd., 47 Maple St., 103 Rice Corner Rd., 29 Kimball St., 40 North Brookfield Rd. and 16 East Main St. Sale prices for these transfers typically appear in registry data within about a week and may be reflected in a future report.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Rice Corner Road and the adjoining Rice Corner Cross Road accounted for the largest cluster of activity, with transfers at 144 and 149 Rice Corner Rd., 103 Rice Corner Rd. and 5 Rice Corner Cross Rd., four of the period's 14 transfers. Main Street also saw two transfers, at 15 Main St. and 16 East Main St. Maple Street had two transfers as well, at 47 Maple St. and 17 South Maple St., though these are distinct streets. The remaining transfers were spread across Lincoln Street, Mockingbird Lane, Webber Road, Kimball Street and North Brookfield Road, with no other street seeing more than one transfer.

MARKET NOTES Six of the 11 transfers with pending sale prices list a bank, mortgage servicer or loan company as either grantor or grantee: Cornerstone Bank (91 Webber Rd. and 15 Main St.), Money Source Inc., ServBank NA and Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC (17 South Maple St.), Capital One NA, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA (5 Rice Corner Cross Rd.), North Brookfield Savings Bank (103 Rice Corner Rd.), and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and First Home Mortgage Corp. (29 Kimball St.). That pattern suggests a share of this period's transfers involve foreclosure-related deeds or mortgage-servicing assignments rather than conventional sales between individual buyers and sellers.

Several transfers also show matching surnames between grantor and grantee. At 40 North Brookfield Rd., Roy R. Chaplin transferred the property to Diane M. Chaplin. At 16 East Main St., Todd Lornell, as trustee, transferred the property to Todd Lornell individually. At 8 Mockingbird Lane, Marwan S. Zubi transferred the property to Cynthia J. Zubi. The three nominal-consideration transfers followed a similar pattern: two involved Gwendolyn M. Broz moving 144 and 149 Rice Corner Rd. between her own name and the Gwendolyn M. Broz Living Trust, and one involved Diane Brown transferring 17 Lincoln St. to Midland Funding LLC, a debt-collection company, for nominal consideration.

Bed, bath and square-footage figures are not captured in deed records and are not available for any property in this report. Property type, such as single-family, condominium or multifamily, cannot be determined from the deed data and is not reported here.

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.