Just Two Of Eight Hopedale Deed Recordings Disclose A Sale Price In July

HOPEDALE -- Eight deeds were recorded in Hopedale between July 24 and Aug. 22, but only two listed a sale price, and most of the recordings involved mortgage lenders or loan servicers rather than a conventional buyer and seller.

MARKET OVERVIEW Eight deed transfers were recorded in the four-week period. Of those, two disclosed a consideration amount, ranging from $55,000 to $80,000, with a median of $67,500 based on the two disclosed figures. The remaining six recordings listed no sale price. Eight recordings is a measurable but unremarkable clip of activity for a town of Hopedale's size; no prior-period figures are available in this dataset to say whether that represents a busier or slower stretch than usual.

TOP SALES The highest disclosed sale was a Hopedale property, street address not listed in the record, which sold July 29 for $80,000. The seller was Anne F. Barry; the buyers were Guaranteed Rate Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. The second disclosed sale was 3 Thayer St., which sold July 27 for $55,000. The sellers were Ashley J. Foster and Shaun M. Foster; the buyer was Navy Federal Credit Union. The remaining six recordings, at 6 Williams St., 6 Rockridge Rd., 107 Hopedale St., 24 Westcott Rd., 1 Mantoni Dr. and 55 Hill St., did not disclose a price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street had more than one recorded transfer this period. Recordings touched Williams Street, Thayer Street, Rockridge Road, Hopedale Street, Westcott Road, Mantoni Drive and Hill Street, plus one entry with no listed street address. Both disclosed prices, $55,000 and $80,000, fall under the $100,000 mark; the price tier of the other six transfers can't be determined since no consideration amount was recorded for them.

MARKET NOTES Six of the eight recordings listed a mortgage lender, loan servicer or the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as grantor or grantee rather than a conventional individual buyer, including transactions naming Guaranteed Rate Inc., Northpoint Mortgage Inc., Radius Financial Group Inc., Bank of America NA, First American Mortgage Solutions LLC and Navy Federal Credit Union. Two recordings, 6 Williams St. and 107 Hopedale St., transferred property into revocable trusts held by members of the same family, the Covinos and the Viens family, respectively. Bed, bath, square-footage and property-type data are not available from the deed records, so no price-per-square-foot or housing-type comparison 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.