Royalston Home Prices Span $20,000 to $160,000 in August Sales

ROYALSTON -- Ten property deeds were recorded in Royalston between July 31 and Aug. 29, but only three carried a disclosed sale price, leaving most of the month's real estate activity undocumented by dollar figure.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deeds were recorded in Royalston during the period. Of those, three included a disclosed sale price, ranging from $20,000 to $160,000, with a median of $30,000 among the disclosed sales. The remaining seven transfers listed no consideration amount, which is common in deed records and does not necessarily indicate the properties changed hands without payment. With price information available for less than a third of recorded transactions, the raw count of ten deeds is the only clear volume indicator for the period; whether the month was active or quiet relative to typical Royalston activity cannot be determined from this data alone.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was 7 New Boston Road, which sold for $160,000 and was recorded Aug. 25. Seller Zachary H. Hastbacka transferred the property to GFA Federal Credit Union.

21 River Road sold for $30,000, recorded Aug. 21. Seller Brad Barrett transferred the property to Roseanne M. Flint.

239 Deland Road sold for $20,000, recorded Aug. 6. Sellers Lynn C. Nystrom and Lynn Nystrom transferred the property to Figure Lending LLC and Figure.

These three transactions were the only ones among the ten recorded deeds with a disclosed sale price. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the county's recorded-deed data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street in this period's dataset appears more than once; the ten deeds were spread across nine different roads, plus one entry listing only a Royalston address with no street specified. Among the three sales with disclosed prices, one exceeded $150,000 (7 New Boston Road) while two fell under $50,000 (21 River Road and 239 Deland Road). The seven deeds without a disclosed price were recorded on Brown Road, Pleasant Street, North Fitzwilliam Road, On The Common, Athol Richmond Road and Norcross Road, along with the one unspecified Royalston address on Smith Jeffrey B. and Smith Susan B.'s transfer to Jennifer L. Janowicz.

MARKET NOTES Six of the ten recorded deeds named a mortgage lender, loan servicer or credit union as either grantor or grantee. These include GFA Federal Credit Union as buyer of 7 New Boston Road; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Nationstar Mortgage LLC on the 4 Brown Road deed; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Residential Mortgage Services Inc. on the 10 North Fitzwilliam Road deed; Figure Lending LLC and Figure as buyer of 239 Deland Road; and Wells Fargo Bank N.A. and Freedom Mortgage Corp. on the 48 Athol Richmond Road deed. None of these six deeds disclosed a sale price.

The 22 Norcross Road deed listed sellers Gerald F. Lajoie and Marie A. Lajoie, both identified as trustees. The shared surname and trustee designation are consistent with a transfer within the same family or trust; the deed record does not indicate the reason for the transfer. No sale price was disclosed for that deed.

With sqft data unavailable for any property in this period, no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made. Property type was not specified in the deed data provided for any of the ten transactions.

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.