Single Recorded Sale Price Anchors Blackstone's September Deed Filings

BLACKSTONE -- Eleven property transfers were recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds for Blackstone between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26, but only one carried a sale price by the time records were compiled, leaving most of the period's activity without pricing data.

MARKET OVERVIEW Of the 11 recorded transfers, only one, a $675,000 sale, carries a sale price on file so far. Because just a single price point is available, that $675,000 figure stands as both the range and the median; no meaningful read on price movement is possible until more considerations post to the registry, which typically occurs within about a week of a deed's recording. The raw count, 11 transfers over a four-week span, indicates a level of filing activity, but with price data pending on 10 of 11 transfers, the period's overall market strength cannot be assessed from price alone.

TOP SALES The lone transaction with a recorded price is a $675,000 sale in Blackstone that closed Aug. 31, with Linda I. Carter and Bruce A. Carter as sellers and the Federal Housing Commissioner as buyer. No street address was provided for this transfer in the deed data. Price is not yet available for the remaining 10 transfers recorded during the period, including transfers at 45 Roberta Road, 16 Lakeview Street, 259 Main Street, 80 Fox Run Road Unit 1B, 149 Blackstone Street, 19 Union Street, 37 Rayner Street, 280 Blackstone Street, 89 Elm Street and 3 Marcel Lane.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Blackstone Street had two recorded transfers during the period: 149 Blackstone St., recorded Aug. 31, and 280 Blackstone St., recorded Aug. 28. No other street had more than one recorded transfer in this dataset. With price data available for only one of 11 transactions, a breakdown by price tier is not possible for this period.

MARKET NOTES Five of the 11 recorded transfers list a bank or mortgage-servicing entity as a grantor or grantee: 45 Roberta Road (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Federal Savings Bank), 80 Fox Run Road Unit 1B (Shamrock Financial Corp. and Onity Mortgage Corp.), 19 Union Street (Wells Fargo Bank N.A. and Select Portfolio Servicing Inc.), 280 Blackstone Street (Dean Cooperative Bank) and 89 Elm Street (Dean Cooperative Bank). That pattern suggests a number of this period's filings are mortgage-related instruments rather than conventional owner-to-buyer sales. One filing, at 149 Blackstone Street, lists the estate of Roseann P. Lamarche as grantor, an estate transfer. Bruce A. Carter and Linda I. Carter appear as sellers in two separate recorded transactions during the period: at 37 Rayner Street and in the $675,000 sale to the Federal Housing Commissioner. No bed, bath or square footage data was available for any transfer, and no property type distinctions were provided in the deed records.

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.