Single Recorded Price Among Five September Deeds Sets New Braintree Benchmark At $143,000

NEW BRAINTREE -- The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded five New Braintree property transfers between Sept. 4 and Oct. 3, but only one carried a sale price by the time the data was pulled, leaving most of the period's activity without a dollar figure to report.

MARKET OVERVIEW Five sales were recorded in New Braintree during the period. Of those, one has a recorded price, $143,000, so the price range and median are both $143,000 based on that single transaction. The other four sales are not yet reflected with a consideration amount in the registry's data, which typically appears within about a week of recording; that is a data lag, not a sign the parties withheld the figure. Based on the raw count alone, five recorded transfers in a month is a modest but not unusual volume for New Braintree, a small town with a limited housing stock.

TOP SALES The only sale with a recorded price was a $143,000 transaction that closed Sept. 28, with Victoria Fay as seller and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc and SoFi Bank NA as buyer. No street address was provided in the deed record. The remaining four sales, a transfer at 1188 West Brookfield Road (sellers John P. and Emma E. McCarthy, recorded Sept. 28), a transfer at 241 No Brookfield Road (seller Paul S. Jackson Sr., recorded Sept. 21), a transfer at 1026 Worcester Road (sellers North Brookfield Savings Bank and John H. Thomasian, recorded Sept. 10), and a transfer at 148 Rutherford Road (seller Camp Putnam Inc, recorded Sept. 8), all have a sale price not yet available. Buyer names were not provided in the registry data for these four.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The five transfers were spread across four different streets, with no street accounting for more than one sale this period. Worcester Road, No Brookfield Road, West Brookfield Road and Rutherford Road each saw a single recorded transfer, and the $143,000 sale's deed listed no street address. With only one price recorded, a price-tier breakdown is not yet possible; that picture should become clearer as more considerations post to the registry.

MARKET NOTES Two of the five transactions involved a bank, mortgage servicer or corporate entity as grantor or grantee rather than two individual parties: North Brookfield Savings Bank appears alongside an individual seller on the Worcester Road transfer, Camp Putnam Inc is the sole seller on the Rutherford Road transfer, and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc and SoFi Bank NA are the buyers on the $143,000 transfer. No bed, bath or square-footage data was available from any of the five deed records, and with only one sale price on file, no price-per-square-foot comparison can be made this period.

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.