Sale Prices Go Largely Undisclosed Across Brookfield's July Property Transfers

BROOKFIELD -- Eleven property transfers were recorded in Brookfield at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds between July 10 and Aug. 8, but only one included a disclosed sale price, leaving most of the period's market activity undocumented by dollar value.

MARKET OVERVIEW Eleven sales were recorded during the period. Of those, only one, at $14,595, included a disclosed consideration amount, so the price range and median sale price both stand at $14,595, based on that single transaction. The other 10 transfers were recorded without a disclosed price, which is common for deed data but means the period's raw count of 11 transfers cannot be read as an indicator of market value or price trend. By volume alone, 11 recorded transfers in roughly four weeks is a notable amount of activity for a town the size of Brookfield, though the lack of pricing data on all but one deed limits any conclusion about whether that activity reflects a shift in the local market.

TOP SALES Only one transaction in the period carried a disclosed price. That sale, recorded July 23 at $14,595, listed sellers Gavin Torrence Granitto and Gabriella Alice Granitto, with the buyers listed as First Community Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. No street address was included in the deed record for this transaction. Because the sale price was low and the buyers listed are a mortgage company and a mortgage-registration entity rather than individuals, this transfer appears distinct in character from a typical owner-to-owner home sale, though the deed data does not specify the nature of the transaction further.

The remaining 10 transfers recorded in the period, covering addresses on Gay Road, Allen Road, Brunnell Avenue, Pleasant Street, Rice Corner Road, Mockingbird Lane and Fiskdale Road, did not include a disclosed sale price and cannot be ranked by value.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Rice Corner Road accounted for three of the 11 transfers: 4 Rice Corner Rd. and 2 Rice Corner Rd., both recorded July 15 with Yellow Breeches Capital LLC as seller and CEP Real Estate LLC as buyer, and 161 Rice Corner Rd., recorded July 14 with Wells Fargo Bank NA and Dawn L. Gabree, trustee, listed as sellers. Gay Road accounted for 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 listed as sellers. The remaining transfers were single properties on separate streets: 87 Allen Rd. (July 23), 20 Brunnell Ave. (July 22), 14 Pleasant St. (July 21), 4 Mockingbird Ln. (July 14) and 189 Fiskdale Rd. (July 10). None of these had a disclosed sale price.

MARKET NOTES Three of the 11 transfers listed a bank as a seller: Wells Fargo Bank NA appears as a seller on both the 14 Pleasant St. and 161 Rice Corner Rd. transfers, and Citizens Bank NA appears as a seller on the 14 Gay Rd. transfer. None of the three disclosed a sale price. The 4 and 2 Rice Corner Rd. transfers were recorded the same day with the same seller and buyer listed on each, Yellow Breeches Capital LLC to CEP Real Estate LLC, indicating a multi-property transaction between the same two parties. The 20 Brunnell Ave. transfer listed Ronald L. Lacaire Sr., trustee, and Simone C. Lacaire, trustee, as sellers, indicating a trust-held property changing hands. The 189 Fiskdale Rd. transfer listed the Brookfield Town Assessors as buyer, with Jessica L. Booth as seller, meaning that property moved into municipal ownership. No deed record in this period included bed, bath or square footage data, and no property type designation (single-family, condominium or multi-family) was provided in the dataset, so no comparison across those categories is possible.

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.