Only One Of Ten Holden Home Sales Discloses Price In Deeds

HOLDEN -- Worcester County Registry of Deeds records show 10 property transfers in Holden between July 17 and Aug. 15, but sale prices were disclosed in deed filings for just one of them, limiting what can be said about the local market this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Ten sales were recorded in Holden during the period. Of those, only one deed listed a consideration amount: $475,000. Because only a single price point is available, the reported price range ($475,000 to $475,000) and median ($475,000) reflect that one transaction, not the full set of 10 sales. The remaining nine deeds carried no disclosed sale price, which is common in Massachusetts registry filings and does not by itself indicate anything unusual about those transactions. Given how little price data is available, the raw count of 10 recorded deeds is the only reliable measure of activity for the period; it cannot be characterized as active or quiet without comparable price context from prior periods.

TOP SALES

The lone disclosed sale was a $475,000 transfer in Holden that closed July 20. The deed lists Ryan Doyle LLC as seller and Joshua Coulson and Monique Ann Coulson as buyers. No street address was specified in the deed record beyond "Holden, MA." No other transaction in this period had a disclosed price, so no additional entries can be ranked by sale price.

The nine transfers without disclosed pricing, listed by address: 422 Malden St., 121 Fort Sumter Dr., 250 Shrewsbury St., 63 Joel Scott Dr., 9 Tannery Dr., 987 Wachusett St., 26 Eagle Ter., 250 Lovell Rd. and 12 Winthrop Ln.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

No two sales in this period shared the same street, so no street-level clustering is evident in the data. By price tier: one sale is confirmed under $500,000 ($475,000); the pricing of the other nine cannot be tiered because no consideration amount was recorded. Transactions were spread across Malden Street, Fort Sumter Drive, Shrewsbury Street, Joel Scott Drive, Tannery Drive, Wachusett Street, Eagle Terrace, Lovell Road, Winthrop Lane and one unspecified Holden address.

MARKET NOTES

Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records for any of the 10 sales, so no price-per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made.

Several deeds show sellers that are not individual homeowners. Wilmington Trust NA, as trustee, and Bank ESB appear as sellers on the Malden Street and Fort Sumter Drive deeds, respectively, with CIL Realty of Massachusetts Inc. and Peter A. Paldino Jr. as the counterparties. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. appears as seller on the Lovell Road deed, with Jeffrey S. Carlson as the counterparty. These entity-involved transfers are typical of foreclosure or bank-related deed activity; the data does not indicate why each transfer occurred, and no further interpretation is offered here.

The Joel Scott Drive deed lists the Deschenes Family Revocable Trust and Wilfrid Deschenes III, as trustee, as sellers, a pattern consistent with an intra-family trust transfer. Two deeds, for Shrewsbury Street and Eagle Terrace, list two individuals sharing a surname (Cardona and Conlon, respectively) as sellers, and the Winthrop Lane deed lists Ronald and Joann Blodgett as sellers, also sharing a surname.

Ryan Doyle LLC appears as seller on two separate deeds in this period, for the unaddressed Holden property that sold for $475,000 and for a property on Wachusett Street with no disclosed price, both recorded July 20.

Six of the 10 deeds were recorded July 20; the remaining four were recorded July 17. No sales were recorded between July 21 and Aug. 15 in this dataset.

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.