Lone $740,000 Sale Sets Bolton's Only Benchmark Price This Period

BOLTON -- The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 17 property transfers in Bolton between Sept. 4 and Oct. 3, but only one carries a sale price so far: a $740,000 transaction completed Sept. 10. The other 16 are still awaiting price data.

MARKET OVERVIEW Of the 17 recorded transfers, just one, closed Sept. 10 for $740,000, has a price listed in registry data as of this report. With only a single priced transaction, $740,000 stands as both the price range and the median for the period; that figure should not be read as representative of the broader market until more prices post, which the registry typically adds within about a week of recording. Taken on raw count alone, 17 transfers is a substantial number of filings for the four-week period, pointing to an active stretch of recording activity, though a majority of those filings involve banks, credit unions or mortgage-servicing companies rather than conventional buyer-to-seller sales.

TOP SALES The period's only sale with a recorded price involves a Bolton property that sold Sept. 10 for $740,000. Sonyvet Cruz Velazquez is listed as seller and Maura J. Nicholson as buyer; the deed record does not include a street address for this transfer. Price data was not yet available for the remaining 16 transfers recorded during the period. Those include properties on Sugar Road, Lancaster Road, Fox Run Road, Hudson Road, Houghton Farm Lane, Sanders Lane, Green Road, Wattaquadock Hill Road, South Boston Road, Quaker Lane, Village Lane, Vaughn Hill Road and Golden Run Road.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Three streets had two recorded transfers apiece this period. Vaughn Hill Road saw filings at 51 Vaughn Hill Road (seller Clinton Savings Bank; buyer Mark R. Jones) and 50 Vaughn Hill Road (sellers Christopher R. and Jacqueline Mastrangelo). Village Lane saw filings at 18 Village Lane (seller Sonyvet Cruz Velazquez) and 18 Village Lane Unit 4 (seller Maura J. Nicholson). Sugar Road saw filings at 42 Sugar Road (seller TD Bank NA; buyer Jill C. Bowtruczyk) and 42 Sugar Road Unit 7 (seller Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc; buyer Robert R. Bowtruczyk). No price data is available for any of these six transfers, so values cannot be compared within a cluster. The remaining 11 transfers are spread across individual streets with no repeat addresses.

MARKET NOTES Beds, baths and square footage are not available from the deed records provided. Nine of the 17 transfers, roughly half, list a bank, credit union, mortgage company or loan-servicing entity, including TD Bank NA, Digital Federal Credit Union, Main Street Bank, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, Clinton Savings Bank, Leader Bank NA, U.S. Bank Trust NA and Rocket Mortgage LLC, as grantor or grantee. That pattern is commonly associated with refinancing, mortgage discharges or lender-related filings rather than typical arm's-length sales. Two pairs of filings, at 18 Village Lane and 42 Sugar Road, each combine a unit-numbered condominium address with a non-unit address, consistent with activity in multi-unit buildings. Notably, the buyer and seller named in the $740,000 sale, Maura J. Nicholson and Sonyvet Cruz Velazquez, also appear as seller and buyer, respectively, in the Village Lane filings recorded that same day, though those two filings carry no price in the registry data. With a recorded price available for only one of 17 transfers, no broader price-per-square-foot or property-type comparison is possible 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.