Only Two of Eleven Royalston Deeds Carry a Recorded Sale Price

ROYALSTON -- Eleven deeds were recorded in Royalston between July 17 and Aug. 15, but only two carried a sale price by the registry's reporting deadline. The two priced transactions, $201,973 on North Fitzwilliam Road and $20,000 on Deland Road, set the only market range available this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded 11 deed transactions in Royalston during the period. Two of those were nominal-consideration transfers, meaning they recorded a token amount rather than a market sale price, and are excluded from price calculations. Of the remaining nine property transactions, only two had a recorded sale price by the registry's reporting deadline: $20,000 and $201,973, producing a price range of $20,000 to $201,973 and a median of $110,986. The other seven transactions show price not yet available, which typically means the figure has not yet reached the registry rather than any withholding by the parties. With prices pending for most of the period's transactions, the raw count of 11 recorded deeds is the clearest available signal, and it does not suggest an unusually quiet or active stretch on volume alone.

TOP SALES

10 North Fitzwilliam Road sold for $201,973 on July 21. The sellers were Ryan Basso and Todd J. Basso; the buyers were Guild Mortgage Co. LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available from the deed record.

239 Deland Road sold for $20,000 on Aug. 6. The seller was listed as Lynn C. Nystrom and Lynn Nystrom; the buyers were Figure Lending LLC and Figure. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available from the deed record.

The remaining nine recorded transactions, including 4 Brown Road, 10 Pleasant Street, 10 N. Fitzwilliam Road, 48 Athol Richmond Road, 22 Norcross Road, 1 Frye Hill Road and 116 Winchendon Road, did not have a recorded price and could not be ranked among the period's top sales.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

North Fitzwilliam Road saw two separate recorded transactions this period: the $201,973 sale at 10 North Fitzwilliam Road on July 21, and a second transaction at 10 N. Fitzwilliam Road on Aug. 7 involving Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Residential Mortgage Services Inc. as sellers, with no price yet recorded and no buyer listed. No other street had more than one recorded transaction. By price tier, both transactions with a recorded price, $20,000 and $201,973, fall under $500,000; no transactions with a recorded price exceeded that threshold this period.

MARKET NOTES

Property type could not be determined from the deed data; beds, baths and square footage are not part of registry records and were not available for any of the 11 transactions. Several transactions involved banks or mortgage-servicing entities as grantor, grantee or both, including Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Residential Mortgage Services Inc., Wells Fargo Bank NA, Freedom Mortgage Corp., PNC Bank NA and Guild Mortgage Co. LLC. These appeared at 4 Brown Road, 10 N. Fitzwilliam Road, 48 Athol Richmond Road, 10 North Fitzwilliam Road and 116 Winchendon Road.

Two transactions were nominal-consideration transfers rather than market sales. One, an unaddressed Royalston Road entry, moved from Menda M. Waters to Tomasz Moskwa and Helena Moskwa. The other, at 0 South Royalston Road, moved from New England Power Co. to Massachusetts Electric Co. Neither carries a market sale price.

Two sellers were identified in trust form in the deed records: Gerald F. Lajoie Tr. and Marie A. Lajoie Tr. at 22 Norcross Road, and Schodek Family Royalston Trust along with Elizabeth K. Schodek Tr. at 1 Frye Hill Road. Both transactions show price not yet available.

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.