Only one of 13 Upton home sales shows a price so far

UPTON -- Worcester County Registry of Deeds records show 13 property transfers in Upton recorded between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26, but only one carries a sale price so far, leaving most of the period's market activity impossible to assess in dollar terms until pricing data catches up.

MARKET OVERVIEW Thirteen sales were recorded in the period. Of those, one has a sale price posted: $872,000. Because that is the only figure available, both the price range and the median for the period stand at $872,000, drawn from that single transaction. The raw count of 13 recorded transfers is a typical volume for a four-week span in Upton, but with 12 of 13 sales still missing price data, the period cannot be characterized as active or quiet in dollar terms. Missing prices typically appear in registry records within about a week of recording and do not indicate that a price was withheld.

TOP SALES The only recorded price in this period was $872,000, for a property sold Aug. 31. The seller was listed as OX Investments LLC and the buyers as Steven A. Ross, trustee, and QS Lending Three Trust. The deed record did not include a street address for this transaction. The remaining 12 transactions recorded between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26 have not yet had sale prices posted to the registry, so a ranked list of top sales cannot be completed with the data currently available. Those transactions, once priced, may reshape which sales rank highest for the period.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN West River Street had two recorded transfers in the period: 27 W River St., sold Aug. 28 from Citizens Bank NA to Susan H. Gorius, and 145 W River St., sold Aug. 28 from Wuck Foo Wong to Sophia Wong. No other street had more than one recorded sale. The remaining nine transactions were spread across individual addresses: 51 Milford St., 13 Plain St., 30 Pearl St., 6 Wood St. and 50 Grove St. (all sold Aug. 28 or Aug. 31), along with 10 Chickadee Way Unit 25, 5 Pleasant St., 67 Ridge Rd., 43 Shannon Way and 69 Warren St. (all sold Aug. 28). With price data unavailable for all of these, a breakdown by price tier is not possible this period.

MARKET NOTES Deed records show a notable share of sellers in this period were banks, credit unions or mortgage-registration entities rather than individual owners: Digital Federal Credit Union, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, MutualOne Bank, Citizens Bank NA and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. appear as grantors on six of the 13 transactions. Property types were mostly single-family addresses, with one condominium unit, at 10 Chickadee Way Unit 25, where the deed listed William T. Matthew, trustee, as seller and Candace B. Matthew, trustee, as buyer. Two other transactions, 43 Shannon Way (Carol H. Conrad to Carol W. Conrad) and 145 W River St. (Wuck Foo Wong to Sophia Wong), involved a buyer and seller sharing a surname, consistent with a within-family or trust transfer. Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures were not available in the deed records for any transaction in 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.