Lone Priced Sale Sets Berlin's September Benchmark At $989,600 Pending More Data

BERLIN -- Eleven property deeds were recorded in Berlin between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, but registry data available so far shows a sale price for just one of them: a $989,600 transaction that closed Sept. 24. Prices for the other 10 transfers had not yet appeared in registry records as of this reporting.

MARKET OVERVIEW

With only one of 11 recorded deeds showing a price so far, that $989,600 sale is currently both the low and high end of the known range, and its own median. Sale prices for recently recorded deeds typically surface in registry data within about a week, so most of this period's figures are expected to appear soon rather than being withheld. Based on the raw count alone, 11 recorded deeds in a four-week span represents a meaningful level of transfer activity, though with price data this thin, the dollar scale of that activity cannot yet be assessed.

TOP SALES

The only transaction with a confirmed price this period is a $989,600 sale recorded Sept. 24. The deed lists no specific street address, identifying the property only as located in Berlin. The sellers were Delia B. Gardner and Sean P. Gardner; the buyer was Avidia Bank. The same day, a separate deed was recorded for 118 Randall Rd., listing Sean P. Gardner and Delia B. Gardner as sellers; no buyer and no price have been recorded yet for that transfer. The remaining nine deeds recorded during the period, at 280 Randall Rd., 31 Sawyer Hill Rd., 9 Campbell Rd., 128 Ball Hill Rd., 76 Summer Rd., 21 Jones Rd., 21 Linden St., 67 Lancaster Rd. and 57 Summer Rd., have no recorded price yet.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Randall Road saw two recorded transfers: 118 Randall Rd. (sellers Sean P. and Delia B. Gardner, price not yet available) and 280 Randall Rd. (sellers Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Kramer Mortgage Corp., price not yet available). Summer Road also saw two: 57 Summer Rd. (sellers Avidia Bank and Patricia L. Cariveau) and 76 Summer Rd. (sellers Alfred P. McLaughlin, trustee, and Cathleen E. McLaughlin, trustee), both with prices not yet available. The remaining transfers, on Sawyer Hill Road, Campbell Road, Ball Hill Road, Jones Road and Linden Street, were each the only recorded deed on their street this period. Because only one of the 11 transactions has a confirmed price, breaking the data down by price tier is not yet possible.

MARKET NOTES

Several deeds list trustees as sellers, including 128 Ball Hill Rd. (Royer James W. and Elizabeth W., trustees), 76 Summer Rd. (the McLaughlin trustees) and 21 Jones Rd. (Brian A. Jacques, trustee, selling to Brian A. Jacques individually), while 31 Sawyer Hill Rd. involved two living trusts as buyers, the Robert Scott Hawkins Living Trust and the Ross Martin Harpestad Living Trust. Mortgage-related entities appear as parties in multiple deeds: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. is listed as a seller at both 280 Randall Rd. and 67 Lancaster Rd., and Avidia Bank appears as a seller at 57 Summer Rd. and as the buyer in the one priced transaction. The buyer of 21 Linden St. is listed as Berlin Town Health, a municipal entity, setting that transfer apart from the other recorded deeds. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available in the deed data for any of the 11 transfers.

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.