Sole Priced Deed in West Boylston July Filings Set at $25,000

WEST BOYLSTON -- Ten deeds were recorded for West Boylston properties between July 3 and Aug. 1, but only one listed a sale price, limiting what conclusions can be drawn about the town's July housing market.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 10 property transfers involving West Boylston addresses during the period. Of those, only one deed disclosed a consideration amount: $25,000. Because that figure represents a single data point rather than a broad sample, the reported price range ($25,000 to $25,000) and median ($25,000) reflect that one transaction only and should not be read as representative of typical home values in town. The other nine deeds were recorded without a stated sale price, which the registry allows and does not necessarily indicate anything unusual about those transfers. With 9 of 10 deeds lacking price data, the underlying volume of 10 recorded transfers in a four-week span is the only reliable indicator from this dataset, and it is not possible to characterize the period as active or quiet in dollar terms.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a disclosed price was recorded July 9 for a West Boylston property, at $25,000. The seller was listed as Alyssa Letourneau and Drew Gage; the buyer was Guild Mortgage Co. LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. The low figure and the buyer's identity, a mortgage company and MERS, which typically holds deeds in a nominee capacity for lenders, indicate this was likely a mortgage-related filing rather than a conventional owner-to-owner home sale, though the deed data does not specify the transaction's purpose. No other deed in this period disclosed a sale price, so no further ranking by price is possible from the available data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Recorded transfers touched nine identified street addresses plus one entry without a specific address: 16 Oxford St., 63 Lancaster St., 152 Worcester St. Unit 4, 19 Maplewood Ave., 18 Evans Rd., 49 Carol Dr., 351 Maple St., 115 Laurel St. and 24 Winthrop St. No street had more than one recorded transfer during the period, so no street-level clustering is evident in this dataset. Because sale prices were not disclosed for these properties, transfers cannot be grouped into price tiers.

MARKET NOTES Several of the recorded deeds involved mortgage companies or loan-servicing entities as a grantor or grantee rather than individual owners on both sides. These include the July 9 transfer to Guild Mortgage Co. LLC and MERS; a July 6 transfer at 18 Evans Rd. to Clinton Savings Bank; a July 6 transfer at 49 Carol Dr. from MERS to Rocket Mortgage LLC; and a July 6 transfer at 115 Laurel St. from Member Advantage Mortgage LLC. Deed data alone does not indicate why these filings occurred, but the presence of mortgage and lending entities as parties on four of the 10 recorded transfers is a pattern worth noting for readers tracking local deed activity. One transfer, at 63 Lancaster St. on July 7, listed a grantor name (Mark S. Derrah and Mark Derrah) suggesting a transfer within the same individual's or family's holdings; the data does not specify the nature of that transfer. The 152 Worcester St. Unit 4 transfer on July 7 involved a condominium trust as grantor and an individual trustee as grantee, consistent with a condominium-association or trust-related filing rather than a typical resale. No sale prices were available to assess these further. Property types among the identified addresses include at least one condominium unit (152 Worcester St. Unit 4) and multiple single-family-style street addresses, though the deed data does not label property type directly.

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

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