Just Two of 13 West Brookfield Property Transfers Disclose a Sale Price

WEST BROOKFIELD -- The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 13 property transfers in West Brookfield between July 24 and Aug. 22, but only two carried a disclosed sale price, both tied to lender-involved transactions rather than conventional home sales.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 13 property transfers in West Brookfield during the four-week period. Of those, only two included a stated consideration amount: $155,000 and $230,000. Because just two of 13 records disclose a price, the reported median of $192,500 reflects only those two transactions, the midpoint between them, and should not be read as representative of the broader 13-sale period. The remaining 11 transfers, roughly 85% of the period's activity, recorded no sale price, which is common for bank-related, municipal, and family or trust transfers. Judged on raw count alone, 13 recorded transfers in four weeks is a moderate volume for a town the size of West Brookfield, though price trends cannot be assessed given the limited disclosure.

TOP SALES 54 North Main St. sold for $230,000 on July 27. The deed lists sellers Brian P. Benoit and Kayla K. Benoit and buyer Country Bank For Savings, an institutional grantee consistent with a foreclosure-related transfer. A property sold for $155,000 on July 30, with seller Lindsay R. Yeager and buyer Cornerstone Bank, also an institutional grantee. No street address was listed in this record. No other transfer in the dataset disclosed a sale price. Among the remaining 11, notable recorded transfers include a July 24 conveyance of 207 Shoreline Drive from Robert Dold to West Brookfield Town Conservation, and a July 30 transfer of 389 West Main St. from the town to its own tax collector, indicating a tax title action. Neither carried a stated price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Wickaboag Valley Road, recorded under several spelling variants (Wickaboag Valley Rd., Wickaboag Valle Rd. and Wickaboag Vly Rd.), accounted for four of the 13 transfers: 398 Wickaboag Valley Rd. (July 28), 97 Wickaboag Valle Rd. (July 27), and two separate deeds for 72 Wickaboag Vly Rd./Wickaboag Valley Rd., both recorded July 24 with different grantor and grantee names on each. None of the four disclosed a price. North Main Street had two recorded transfers: 124 N Main St. (July 29, no price disclosed) and 54 North Main St. ($230,000, the period's highest disclosed price). The remaining seven transfers were spread across individual streets, Birch Street, Foster Road, Ridgewood Circle, Clearview Drive, Shoreline Drive and West Main Street, each represented by a single deed and none with a disclosed price.

MARKET NOTES Both disclosed-price sales named a bank as the buyer, Country Bank For Savings and Cornerstone Bank, a pattern consistent with foreclosure-related transfers rather than owner-to-owner home purchases. A third record, the July 27 transfer at 26 Ridgewood Circle, moved from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Guaranteed Rate Affinity LLC to Pennymac Loan Services LLC, indicating a mortgage or servicing assignment rather than a property sale to an individual buyer. A fourth, the July 27 transfer at 124 N Main St., listed Solar Mosaic Inc. as grantee, consistent with a solar-financing lien rather than a traditional sale. The July 30 transfer of 389 West Main St. to the West Brookfield Town Collector reflects a municipal tax title action, and the July 24 transfer of 207 Shoreline Drive to West Brookfield Town Conservation reflects a conservation land acquisition by the town. All 13 recorded transfers involved street-address parcels; no condominium unit numbers appeared in the dataset, and no bed, bath or square-footage figures are available from deed records.

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.