Sturbridge Deed Data Shows Just One Disclosed Sale Price in August

STURBRIDGE -- Fourteen property transfers were recorded in Sturbridge between Aug. 14 and Sept. 12, but just one of those deeds included a disclosed sale price, limiting what the data can show about the town's price trends this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 14 property transfers in Sturbridge during the four-week period. Only one of the 14 included a disclosed consideration amount: $73,000, for a property sold Aug. 20 by John G. Jolin to Citizens Bank NA. Because just one price was available, the reported price range and median are both $73,000, a figure drawn from a single transaction rather than a broad sample. The other 13 transfers listed no sale price, which is common for many deed types, including mortgage discharges, foreclosure-related transfers and trust transfers. Based on the raw count alone, 14 recorded transfers in a single month represents a notable volume of recording activity in Sturbridge, though with price data missing from all but one transaction, the period cannot be characterized as favoring buyers or sellers.

TOP SALES The only disclosed-price sale of the period was recorded Aug. 20: a property sold by John G. Jolin to Citizens Bank NA for $73,000. No street address, bedroom, bathroom or square-footage figures were included in this record. No other transaction in the dataset carried a disclosed price, so no additional sales can be ranked by price. Other properties that changed hands during the period, listed here without price ranking, include 21 Fiske Hill Road, 26 Woodside Circle, 104 McGilpin Road, 46 Willard Road, 143 Walker Pond Road, 208 New Boston Road, 4 Audubon Way, 10 Blueberry Lane, 34 Bentwood Drive Unit 34, 33 Putnam Road, 364 New Boston Road, 13 Wallace Road and 4 Summit Ridge. Deed records for each of these listed no consideration amount.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN New Boston Road accounted for two of the period's 14 transfers: 364 New Boston Road, recorded Aug. 17, and 208 New Boston Road, recorded Aug. 19. It was the only street with more than one recorded transfer in this period. No other geographic clustering is evident; the remaining 12 addresses were spread across 12 different streets. Because a sale price was disclosed for only one property, grouping sales by price tier is not meaningful for this dataset.

MARKET NOTES Several of the period's transfers listed banks or mortgage-related entities among the parties of record. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc appears in connection with 21 Fiske Hill Road, 26 Woodside Circle, 46 Willard Road and 4 Summit Ridge, alongside Embrace Home Loans Inc, Flagstar Bank FSB, Northpoint Mortgage Inc and Colati Jessica M, respectively. Eastern Bank is listed in connection with 104 McGilpin Road, and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA and Carrington Mortgage Services LLC are both listed in connection with 13 Wallace Road. Two transfers involved matching family names paired with a trustee designation. At 4 Audubon Way, Sharon A. Biondolillo is listed as trustee and as an individual party on the same deed. At 34 Bentwood Drive Unit 34, Gilson R. Krispien and Helen E. Krispien are both listed as trustees. The data does not indicate the reason for either transfer. No sale prices were disclosed for either property. One property, 34 Bentwood Drive Unit 34, is identified in the deed record as a condominium unit. No other address in the dataset includes a unit designation, though the records do not specify property type for the remaining transfers.

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.