Royalston July Home Sale Prices Mostly Undisclosed in Deed Records

ROYALSTON -- Ten property transfers were recorded in Royalston between July 3 and Aug. 1, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds filings, but only one deed disclosed a sale price. That price, $201,973 for a home on North Fitzwilliam Road, is the only figure available to gauge the month's market.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten sales were recorded in Royalston during the period. Of those, nine listed no consideration amount, which is common for certain deed types and does not necessarily indicate an unusual month. The single disclosed price was $201,973, for 10 North Fitzwilliam Road, making that figure both the low and high end of the town's known price range and, by default, the reported median. Because price data is available for only one of the 10 transactions, this figure should not be read as representative of the broader market. With disclosed pricing this limited, no meaningful comparison of market pace or price movement can be made from this dataset alone.

TOP SALES 10 North Fitzwilliam Road sold for $201,973 on July 21. The sellers were listed as Ryan Basso and Todd J. Basso; the buyer was Guild Mortgage Co. LLC, with Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. also named on the deed. No other sale in the period disclosed a price. The remaining nine transactions, listed by recording date, were: a property with no listed address (sellers Barry M. and Mary A. Labonte, July 27); 1 Frye Hill Road (seller Schodek Family Royalston Trust, Elizabeth K. Schodek, trustee, July 23); 0 South Royalston Road (seller New England Power Co., buyer Massachusetts Electric Co., July 23); 116 Winchendon Road (seller PNC Bank NA, along with Marcia L. Flanagan, July 21); 17 N Fitzwilliam Road (seller Athol Credit Union, along with James Worcester, July 14); 52 Brown Road (seller Stephen Bassett, buyer GoodLeap LLC, July 8); 21 River Road (seller Jessica Ann Barrett, buyer Brad Barrett, July 7); 26 Pleasant Street (seller Wells Fargo Bank NA, along with Ruth E. Mello, July 6); and 31 Pleasant Street (sellers Ivers P. Lawrence III and Irene M. Lawrence, July 3).

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Two streets each recorded more than one transfer this period. Pleasant Street had two sales, at Nos. 26 and 31, both without disclosed prices. Fitzwilliam Road also had two transfers -- 10 North Fitzwilliam Road, the month's only priced sale at $201,973, and 17 N Fitzwilliam Road, price not disclosed. The remaining six transactions were spread across Frye Hill Road, South Royalston Road, Winchendon Road, Brown Road, River Road, and one property listed only as "Royalston, MA" without a street address. No other street had more than a single recorded transfer.

MARKET NOTES With sale prices disclosed for just one of 10 properties and no square footage, bedroom or bathroom data available from deed records, few data-driven observations can be drawn about pricing or property type this period. One pattern is visible in the parties named on the deeds: financial institutions appear as sellers or buyers in five of the 10 transactions -- PNC Bank NA (116 Winchendon Road), Athol Credit Union (17 N Fitzwilliam Road), Wells Fargo Bank NA (26 Pleasant Street), and Guild Mortgage Co. LLC/Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and GoodLeap LLC as buyers on North Fitzwilliam and Brown roads, respectively. The deed data does not indicate the reason for this pattern. Separately, several transfers appear to involve parties who share a surname, including the Basso, Barrett, Lawrence and Labonte transactions, and one transfer -- 1 Frye Hill Road -- moved from the Schodek Family Royalston Trust to an individual trustee of the same name. The registry data does not indicate the reason for these transfers. One filing, for 0 South Royalston Road, involved a transfer between two utility companies, New England Power Co. and Massachusetts Electric Co., rather than a residential buyer and seller.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

Jul 13 - Jul 19

Jul 20 - Jul 26

Jul 27 - Aug 2

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