Royalston Sale Prices Range Widely as Most August Deeds Await Pricing

ROYALSTON -- Nine property transfers were recorded in Royalston at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds between Aug. 7 and Sept. 5, but only two carried a sale price on file by publication, leaving most of the month's market activity still to be reflected in public records.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded nine transfers in Royalston during the period. One of those, a transfer from Menda M. Waters to Todd and Karla Basso recorded Aug. 28, was made for nominal consideration under $10,000 and is not counted as a market sale. Of the remaining eight transactions, two had recorded sale prices as of this writing, ranging from $30,000 to $160,000, with a median of $95,000 between the two. The other six transactions showed no price on file; for those, the price is not yet available. With only two of nine recorded transfers carrying a price so far, the data is too limited to characterize the month as active or quiet based on pricing alone; the raw count of nine recorded deeds indicates a modest volume of transactions for the one-month span.

TOP SALES 7 New Boston Road sold for $160,000 on Aug. 25. Zachary H. Hastbacka was the seller; GFA Federal Credit Union was the buyer. No bed, bath or square footage data was available. 21 River Road sold for $30,000 on Aug. 21. Brad Barrett was the seller; Roseanne M. Flint was the buyer. No bed, bath or square footage data was available. No other transactions recorded during the period had a sale price on file. The remaining six properties, 12 Main St., 0 Birch Hill Dam Road, 23 On The Common, 4 Brown Road, 10 Pleasant St. and 10 N. Fitzwilliam Road, all show price not yet available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street in the dataset recorded more than one transaction; the nine transfers were spread across nine separate addresses with no repeat street names. By price tier, the single sale under $50,000 was 21 River Road at $30,000. The single sale in the $50,000-to-$200,000 tier was 7 New Boston Road at $160,000. The remaining six properties cannot yet be placed into a price tier because their sale prices are not yet available.

MARKET NOTES Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. appears as a seller in two of the nine transfers, at 4 Brown Road (with Nationstar Mortgage LLC) and 10 N. Fitzwilliam Road (with Residential Mortgage Services Inc.). The Royalston Town Conservation entity was listed as seller on the 0 Birch Hill Dam Road transfer, with Louise Gava as buyer. No bed, bath or square footage figures were available for any property in the dataset, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made, and no determination can be made about the mix of single-family, condominium or multi-family properties among the transfers.

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.