Only one of ten Petersham sales carries a recorded price so far

PETERSHAM -- Ten property transfers were recorded in Petersham between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, but only one carried a sale price in the Worcester County Registry of Deeds as of this report, underscoring the lag between when a deed is recorded and when its consideration amount appears in the registry's data.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded 10 sales in Petersham during the period. Of those, one, the transfer of 43 West St., listed a sale price: $20,000. Because only one of 10 sales has a posted price so far, a meaningful price range or median across the full group is not yet available; the single recorded figure of $20,000 stands as both the low and high end of what's currently known, and the de facto median. Prices for the other nine sales typically surface in the registry within about a week of recording and were not yet available at the time this report was compiled. Based on the raw count alone, 10 recorded transfers in a four-week span is a moderate but not unusual volume for the town; there is no prior-month figure in this dataset to compare it against.

TOP SALES

43 West St. sold for $20,000 on Sept. 15. The seller was listed as Elaine A. Caron and Elaine Caron; the buyer was Cornerstone Bank. No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data was available. This is the only sale in the period with a sale price currently on record. The remaining nine transfers, at 5 West St., 4 East St., 5 East St., 70 New Salem Rd., 43 Amidon Dr., 4 Camel Hump Rd., 11 Common St., 35 West St. and one unaddressed Petersham parcel, have price not yet available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

West Street accounted for the most activity, with three recorded transfers: 5 West St., 43 West St. and 35 West St. East Street had two: 4 East St. and 5 East St. The remaining five sales were spread one each across New Salem Road, Amidon Drive, Camel Hump Road, Common Street and a Petersham parcel recorded without a street address. No other street saw more than one transfer this period.

MARKET NOTES

Several of the 10 transfers involved a bank, credit union or mortgage-servicing entity as grantor or grantee. Cornerstone Bank appears as buyer at 43 West St. and as seller, alongside Ronald B. Dejackome, at 43 Amidon Dr. Freedom Mortgage Corp. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. are listed as seller at 5 West St. Athol Credit Union, with Cynthia D. Crosson, is listed as seller at 4 East St. GoodLeap LLC is listed as buyer at 5 East St., with Lynn Scott as seller. Deed records do not indicate why these institutions are party to the transfers. Separately, the 11 Common St. transfer moved ownership from Toni Begman to Toni Begman, Trustee, a transfer within the same name consistent with a trust transfer rather than a sale to a new owner; deed data does not indicate the reason for the change. No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage figures were available for any of the 10 properties, so no price-per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made 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.