Sale Prices Remain Pending for All Ten Gardner Property Transfers in August

GARDNER -- Ten property transfers were recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds for Gardner addresses on Aug. 21, but as of this report no sale price had been entered into the registry's records for any of the ten. No additional Gardner property transfers were recorded between Aug. 22 and Sept. 19, the remainder of this reporting period.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Ten deeds were recorded for Gardner properties during the period, all dated Aug. 21. No consideration amount (sale price) was listed for any of the ten transfers as of this report, so a price range and median cannot be calculated. Sale prices typically appear in registry data within about a week of recording, so pricing for these transfers may become available after this report is published. Based on the raw count, all recorded activity for the period was concentrated in a single day, with no deeds recorded across the following four weeks.

TOP SALES

Because no sale prices were available for any of the ten transfers, they cannot be ranked or reported as "top sales" this period. The transfers recorded with full street addresses were: 6 Holly Dr. (seller Theresa Maillet and Ovation Sales Finance Trust); 560 Pleasant St. (seller Movement Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.); 153 Pine St. (seller Corry Duprey and INS Home Buyers Inc.); 61 Lovewell St. (seller Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Robbi Scruggs); and 118 Willis Rd. (seller Nilson Machado and Lorrana Ribeiro Aguiar). Buyer names were not provided in the deed data for these five transfers. Sale prices for all five were not yet available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

The ten transfers were recorded at ten different addresses across Gardner, and no street had more than one recorded transfer this period, so no street-level clustering emerged. Because no sale price data is available for any transfer, sales also cannot be grouped into price tiers this period.

MARKET NOTES

One of the ten transfers, 96 Pinewood Dr. Unit 4B, was recorded as a condominium unit; the deed data does not specify property type for the other nine addresses. Three of the ten transfers show grantor and grantee names indicating a within-family or trust restructuring rather than a sale to an outside party: a Gardner property (no street address given) transferred from Rene J. and Jill M. Cormier to Rene Cormier and Jill Cormier as trustees; 35 Water St. transferred from the Jill Cormier Revocable Trust to Rene Cormier as trustee; and 112 Greenwood Pl. transferred from Thomas D. and Louise M. Pare to Thomas D. and Louise M. Pare as trustees. The deed data does not indicate the purpose of these transfers, and none should be read as an arm's-length sale.

Three other transfers listed a mortgage-servicing or mortgage-registration entity as a party: 560 Pleasant St. (Movement Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.), 61 Lovewell St. (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Robbi Scruggs), and 44 Yale St. (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Total Mortgage Services LLC transferring to Carrington Mortgage Services LLC). The presence of these entities is more consistent with a mortgage assignment, discharge or servicing transfer than a typical owner-to-buyer property sale; the deed data does not specify which.

One transfer, 96 Pinewood Dr. Unit 4B, listed the same individual as both grantor and grantee under two spellings of her name (Valerie Victoria Javier Rojas and Valerie V. Javier Rojas), which the deed data does not further explain.

With no sale price recorded for any of the ten transfers, this period's data does not support conclusions about price levels, price-per-square-foot, or market tone in Gardner. A fuller picture, including sale prices, may be available once registry data is updated.

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.