Price disclosure rare as Brookfield records 13 deed transfers in July

BROOKFIELD -- Thirteen deeds were recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds for Brookfield properties between July 3 and Aug. 1, but only one of those transactions included a disclosed sale price, limiting what can be said about where the local market stands this month.

MARKET OVERVIEW Thirteen sales were recorded during the period. Only one carried a disclosed consideration amount: $250,000. Because just one of the 13 transactions reported a price, the $250,000 figure serves as both the range and the median for the month by default, it is not an average or a comparison across multiple sales, and it should not be read as representative of the broader market. The remaining 12 transactions, or 92% of recorded deeds, listed no sale price, which is common for certain deed types, including bank and trust transfers. Based on the raw count alone, 13 recorded deeds in a four-week window is a moderate level of recording activity for the town; no prior-period figures were provided for comparison.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a disclosed price was a $250,000 sale recorded July 23, with Wells Fargo Bank NA as seller and John David Holdcraft as buyer. The registry entry did not include a street address for this property, only a Brookfield, MA designation. No other transactions in this dataset included a sale price, so no additional entries can be ranked or reported here. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available in the deed data for any transaction.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Rice Corner Road saw the most concentrated activity of the month, with three separate transfers recorded: 4 Rice Corner Rd and 2 Rice Corner Rd, both recorded July 15 with Yellow Breeches Capital LLC and CEP Real Estate LLC as sellers, and 161 Rice Corner Rd, recorded July 14 with Wells Fargo Bank NA and Dawn L. Gabree, trustee, as sellers. Gay Road also saw two transfers: 11 Gay Rd, recorded July 23 with Donna Laviolette as seller, and 14 Gay Rd, recorded July 13 with Citizens Bank NA and Pasquale J. Tamburro as sellers. The remaining eight recorded properties were spread across individual streets: 87 Allen Rd, 20 Brunnell Ave, 14 Pleasant St, 4 Mockingbird Ln, 189 Fiskdale Rd, 12 Green St, 13 Lane 23, and the unaddressed Brookfield, MA parcel tied to the month's one disclosed sale. Because sale prices were not available for these properties, they cannot be grouped into price tiers.

MARKET NOTES Bank entities appeared as sellers in four of the 13 recorded deeds: Wells Fargo Bank NA on three (the Brookfield, MA sale, 14 Pleasant St, and 161 Rice Corner Rd) and Citizens Bank NA on one (14 Gay Rd), a pattern consistent with bank-initiated transfers such as foreclosures. Trust entities also appeared as sellers in two transactions: 20 Brunnell Ave, where Ronald L. Lacaire Sr., trustee, and Simone C. Lacaire, trustee, were listed as sellers, and 161 Rice Corner Rd, where Dawn L. Gabree, trustee, was a co-seller alongside Wells Fargo Bank NA. One transfer involved a municipal buyer: 189 Fiskdale Rd was sold by Jessica L. Booth to the Brookfield Town Assessors, recorded July 10. No square-footage or property-type data was available in the deed records to support further analysis, including price-per-square-foot comparisons or a breakdown between single-family, condominium and multi-family transfers.

Recorded Deeds

Source: Registry of Deeds. Sale amounts shown as recorded; transfers without a disclosed consideration are noted as such.

Jul 6 - Jul 12

Jul 13 - Jul 19

Jul 20 - Jul 26

Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.