Only one of five New Braintree deeds discloses a sale price

NEW BRAINTREE -- Five property transfers were recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds for New Braintree between July 10 and August 8, but only one carried a disclosed sale price, limiting what the recent filings show about the town's housing market.

MARKET OVERVIEW Five sales were recorded in the period. Of those, only one deed listed a consideration amount: $199,900. Because just one of five transactions disclosed a price, the reported price range and median, both $199,900, reflect that single sale rather than the broader market. The remaining four transfers were recorded without a stated sale price, which is common for certain deed types, including family and institutional transfers. The raw count of five recorded deeds is too limited on its own to characterize the period as active or quiet.

TOP SALES The only disclosed-price transaction was a property in New Braintree that sold for $199,900 on July 30. The sellers were the Estate of Betty A. Davis and Bonnie Lamadeleine; the buyers were Leobardo Mondragon Velez and Marie Celine Erie.

The other four recorded transfers carried no disclosed price. On July 30, a parcel at 0 Davis Road changed hands with Marie Celine Erie and Leobardo Mondragon Velez listed as sellers, the same two individuals recorded as buyers in that day's $199,900 sale. On July 22, a property at 100 Dennis Whitney Road transferred from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Provident Funding Group Inc. On July 14, two parcels on Oakham Road, one at 965 Oakham Road and one listed as 0 Oakham Road, both transferred from Ashley W. Howard and Ethel J. Howard, with no buyer listed in the deed data provided.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Two of the five recorded deeds involved Oakham Road: 965 Oakham Road and 0 Oakham Road, both transferred by the same sellers, Ashley W. Howard and Ethel J. Howard, on the same date, July 14. Davis Road and the unaddressed New Braintree parcel accounted for two more deeds, both recorded July 30 and involving the same two individuals, Marie Celine Erie and Leobardo Mondragon Velez, first as buyers and then as sellers on a separate parcel. The Dennis Whitney Road transfer stood apart as an institutional transaction, moving from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Provident Funding Group Inc. By price tier, only one transaction, the $199,900 New Braintree sale, had a disclosed figure; the remaining four fall into an undisclosed-price category and cannot be tiered by price.

MARKET NOTES Bed, bath and square footage figures are not available from deed records for any of the five transactions, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made. The dataset shows a mix of transaction types beyond typical owner-to-buyer home sales: one deed originated from an estate (the Davis estate), two originated from the same sellers on the same day on Oakham Road, and one was a transfer between two corporate entities, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Provident Funding Group Inc., a pattern typically associated with mortgage-related recordings rather than a traditional home purchase. The two Davis Road-area deeds recorded the same day involved the same two individuals in reversed buyer-seller roles across separate parcels. With four of five deeds carrying no disclosed consideration, this period's data offers limited visibility into actual market pricing in New Braintree.

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.