Leicester's September property deeds show no sale prices recorded yet

LEICESTER -- Twelve properties in Leicester changed hands between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, according to deeds recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds, but none of the 12 transactions had a sale price entered into the registry's records as of this report.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded 12 property transfers in Leicester during the period, all dated between Sept. 11 and Sept. 15. No sale price was available for any of the 12 deeds, so a price range and median cannot be calculated this month. Price data typically appears in registry records within about a week of recording; the absence of any pricing across all 12 transactions, more than three weeks after the most recent recording date in this batch, is notable on its own, though the registry data available does not indicate why. Based on the raw count alone, 12 recorded transfers is the only activity measure available this period; there is no prior-month figure in this data set to compare it against.

TOP SALES

Because no sale prices were available for any of the 12 deeds, transactions cannot be ranked by price this period. The transfers recorded include a sale of 124 Green St from Leon Dykas III to Leicester Town Planning, a municipal buyer. Two properties tied to lender or mortgage-servicing entities also recorded: 1 Reservoir St transferred from Operative Bank to Esmeralda Aquino Hernandez, and 7 King St transferred from Operative Bank to Donald W. Morin Jr. A fourth, 384 Main St, transferred from Rowena R. Cordor to First Home Mortgage Corp. Sale prices for all of these remain unavailable.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

King Street saw two transfers this period: 7 King St and 11 King St Ext. No other street name repeated among the 12 recorded addresses. The remaining nine transfers were spread across Pryor Road, Deer Pond Drive, Second Street, Green Street, Charlton Street, Main Street, Winslow Avenue, Denny Place and one transfer listed only under a general Leicester address with no street specified. With no price data available, sales cannot be grouped into price tiers this period.

MARKET NOTES

Several of the 12 transfers show patterns worth noting without speculation on motive. Three involve estates or trusts: 11 Deer Pond Dr. passed from the estate of Mary F. Nelson to Karin N. Rock as trustee; 31 Winslow Ave. passed from Geoffrey J. Batstone, as trustee, to the Batstone Family Irrevocable Trust; and 11 King St Ext. transferred from Joseph Mastrorio to Meaghan Mastrorio, both sharing a surname. Two transfers, 1 Reservoir St. and 7 King St., list Operative Bank as seller, and a third, 384 Main St., lists First Home Mortgage Corp. as buyer; a fourth, 12 Denny Pl., transferred from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Guaranteed Rate Inc. Deed records do not specify whether these were foreclosure-related. One transfer at a Leicester address with no listed street number recorded Ryan Qualey as seller and Edivani Leandra DeSousa and Ryan Qualey as buyers; a separate deed for 30 Second St. lists DeSousa and Qualey as the sellers, meaning the same two names appear on both sides of two different transactions this period. Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records and are omitted. With no consideration amounts recorded for any of the 12 deeds, no price-per-square-foot or property-type pricing 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.