Sole Priced Sale in Holden Closes at $400,000 as Most Deeds Omit Price

HOLDEN -- Just one of the 12 property transfers recorded in Holden this period included a disclosed sale price, a $400,000 transaction between trustees and a bank, leaving most of the period's deed activity without pricing data available to assess.

MARKET OVERVIEW Twelve real estate transactions were recorded in Holden between Aug. 14 and Aug. 17, 2026, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds filings. Of those, only one listed a recorded consideration amount: $400,000. That single transaction sets both the price range and the median for the period at $400,000, since it is the only figure available. Twelve recorded transfers within a four-day filing window is a notable clustering of activity by raw count, but with disclosed pricing available for just 1 of 12 filings, the data does not support a characterization of the period as active or quiet based on price. Most of the period's filings involved lenders, mortgage servicers or trustees rather than price-disclosed sales between individual buyers and sellers.

TOP SALES The period's only priced transaction also leads the list. A Holden property sold for $400,000 on Aug. 17, with sellers Kathleen A. Belair and Paul J. Belair, both listed as trustees, transferring the property to Middlesex Savings Bank. The deed record for this filing does not include a specific street address. No other filing in the period included a recorded consideration amount, so no additional transactions can be ranked by price. Among the price-not-disclosed filings, transfers were recorded at 192 Reservoir St., 96 Paxton Road, 195 Twinbrooke Drive, 126 Brattle Street, 66 Winthrop Lane, 1467 Main Street, 885 Main Street, 26 Hultin Circle, 27 Country Hill Road, 111 Flagler Drive and 30 Colonial Road.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Main Street had two recorded transfers in the period, at 885 Main St. and 1467 Main St., neither with a disclosed sale price. No other street had more than one recorded filing. The remaining nine price-not-disclosed transfers were spread across nine separate streets: Reservoir Street, Paxton Road, Twinbrooke Drive, Brattle Street, Winthrop Lane, Hultin Circle, Country Hill Road, Flagler Drive and Colonial Road. Because a sale price was disclosed for only one property, transfers cannot be meaningfully grouped by price tier this period.

MARKET NOTES Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records and are omitted here. Property type, single-family, condominium or multi-family, cannot be determined from deed records alone, so no breakdown by type is possible. Several filings named Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as a party, in transactions also involving Total Mortgage Services LLC, GMAC Bank and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp, as well as a separate filing involving Prestige Home Mortgage LLC; the registry data does not specify the purpose of these transfers. One filing, at 27 Country Hill Road, moved a property between two trustees sharing the surname McCullough, William J. McCullough Tr. to Leslie G. McCullough Tr.; the available data does not indicate the reason for the transfer. The filing at 30 Colonial Road lists only a seller, Chloe DiMarzio, with no buyer named in the data provided. The filing at 96 Paxton Road lists only buyers, U.S. Bank Trust N.A. Tr. and New Roots N Trust, with no seller named.

Recorded Deeds

Source: Registry of Deeds. Sale amounts shown as recorded; transfers without a disclosed consideration are noted as such.

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