Templeton Records 12 Property Transfers as Only One Sale Price Surfaces

TEMPLETON -- The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transfers in Templeton between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, but only one of those deeds carries a sale price so far. The single recorded price, $264,550 for a home on State Road, is the only figure available to gauge the month's market.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Twelve deeds were recorded in Templeton during the period, but consideration amounts have posted for just one of them: a $264,550 sale on State Road. Because that is the only priced transaction, it also stands as both the low and high end of the range and the effective median. Sale prices for the other 11 transfers had not yet reached the registry's data as of this report; that is a typical lag and usually resolves within about a week of recording. With 11 of 12 transactions still missing price data, this report cannot characterize the period as especially active or quiet based on price activity alone; the raw count of 12 recorded deeds is the only volume figure available.

TOP SALES

331 State Road sold for $264,550, recorded Aug. 21. The sellers were George J. Bain and Leigh A. Bain; the buyers were Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and PennyMac Loan Services LLC. It is the only transaction in this period with a recorded price, so no further ranking of top sales is possible until additional consideration amounts post to the registry.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

The 12 recorded deeds are spread across 11 different streets or locations, including Depot Road, Pine Street, Brooks Village Road, Barre Road, Morse Avenue, Eagle Lane, White Circle, State Road, Lake Avenue, Ladder Hill Terrace and Fisher Street, plus one transfer listed without a street address. No street had more than one recorded transfer, so no geographic clustering is evident in this dataset. A price-tier breakdown is not meaningful this period since only one of the 12 transfers has a recorded sale price.

MARKET NOTES

Eight of the 12 recorded transfers name a bank, credit union, mortgage company or Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as a grantor or grantee: 111 Depot Road (GFA Federal Credit Union to Kathleen M. Roth), 10 Pine St. (CMG Mortgage Inc. to CMG Financial), 92 Brooks Village Road (Urban Development to Link Corp), 233 Barre Road (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and New Century Mortgage Corp. to U.S. Bank NA), 2 Eagle Lane (Green Tree Servicing LLC to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.), 331 State Road (to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and PennyMac Loan Services LLC), 33 Lake Ave. (Digital Federal Credit Union to Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick) and 28 Ladder Hill Terrace (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Prestige Home Mortgage LLC). That means the majority of this period's recorded deeds involve lenders or loan servicers rather than transfers between individual buyers and sellers.

Two additional deeds appear to be transfers within the same family. A property listed only as Templeton, MA, moved from Daniel F. Richard and Roberta L. Richard to Daniel F. Richard, trustee, and Roberta L. Richard, trustee, on Aug. 25. A 6 Morse Ave. deed recorded the same day lists Daniel F. Richard, trustee, and Daniel F. Richard as the sellers. A third, 17 White Circle, transferred from Wallace J. Scott III, trustee, to Cheryl Scott, trustee. No sale prices are recorded for any of the three. Deed records do not indicate the reason for these transfers, and none should be inferred.

The remaining deed, 9 Fisher St., lists only a seller, Thomas Johns, with no buyer or price recorded as of this report.

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.