Templeton's three priced sales this period range from $30,000 to $75,000

TEMPLETON -- Worcester County Registry of Deeds records show 11 property transfers in Templeton between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26, but only three carried a recorded sale price by the time this report was compiled. The three prices on file ranged from $30,000 to $75,000, with a median of $38,400.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Eleven deeds were recorded in Templeton during the period, but only three, or roughly 27%, included a consideration amount. Those three prices ranged from $30,000 to $75,000, with a median of $38,400. The remaining eight transfers show price not yet available, which typically means the sale price has not yet reached the registry's data feed. Because most of the period's transactions lack a price, the raw count of 11 deeds should not be read as a signal of market activity on its own; a fuller picture will emerge once outstanding prices post.

TOP SALES

74 Willow St. sold for $75,000 on Sept. 1. The seller was listed as Andrea Parsons; the buyer was recorded as Mutual of Omaha Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.

16 Winter St. sold for $38,400 on Sept. 2. The sellers were listed as Katie C. McGrath and Jonathan McGrath; the buyer was IC Federal Credit Union.

A Templeton property sold for $30,000 on Sept. 4. The seller was listed as Kandi Jean Norton; the buyers were recorded as the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. No street address was included in this deed record.

The remaining eight recorded transfers, at 30 Schoolhouse Rd., 34 Albert Dr., 9 Fisher St., 57 Gardner Rd., 26 Orchard Ln., 331 State Rd., 100 Stone Bridge Rd. and 433 South Rd., show price not yet available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

No two sales in this period shared the same street. One pattern worth noting: Kandi Jean Norton is listed as seller on both the $30,000 transfer recorded Sept. 4 and the 34 Albert Dr. transfer recorded the same day, the latter still showing price not yet available. Beyond that overlap, the 11 transfers were spread across 10 different streets, with no single road accounting for more than one sale.

By price tier, all three sales with recorded figures fell under $100,000: $30,000, $38,400 and $75,000. The remaining eight transfers, which make up the majority of the period's activity, cannot yet be sorted into a price tier since no consideration amount has posted.

MARKET NOTES

Seven of the 11 recorded deeds list a mortgage-related entity, such as Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Rocket Mortgage LLC, Mortgage Master Inc., Cornerstone Bank, Radius Financial Group Inc. or OCMBC Inc., as a grantor or grantee. That pattern suggests a substantial share of this period's recorded activity involves mortgage assignments, discharges or lender-related transfers rather than conventional owner-to-buyer home sales. Bed, bath and square-footage figures are not available from deed records for any of the 11 transfers, so no property-type or price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made this period. One transfer, at 30 Schoolhouse Rd., involved the Sawyer Revocable Trust and Mary A. Sawyer as trustee, an intra-family or estate-planning transfer pattern; the deed record does not indicate the reason for the transfer.

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.