Two Priced Sales Range From $120,000 To $250,000 So Far

NORTH BROOKFIELD -- Worcester County Registry of Deeds records show 10 property transfers in North Brookfield between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26, but sale prices have posted for only two of them so far, limiting what can be concluded about the month's market.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded 10 deed transfers in North Brookfield during the period. Of those, two carried a sale price at the time of this report: $120,000 and $250,000. Based on those two figures, the price range is $120,000 to $250,000, with a reported median of $185,000. Because eight of the 10 transfers still show price not yet available, that range and median reflect only a fifth of the period's activity and should not be read as representative of the full month. Registry data typically posts sale prices within about a week of recording, so the remaining figures are expected to fill in after this report.

TOP SALES

The highest-priced transfer recorded was for $250,000, sold Sept. 8. The property's street address was not specified in the available data; the seller was listed as Mort Gary, and the buyer as North Brookfield Savings Bank.

The second sale was 18 Arch St., which sold for $120,000 on Sept. 2. The seller was listed as Michael F. Orourke, and the buyer as Salem Five Cents Savings Bank.

No other transfers in the period have a recorded sale price yet, so a fuller ranking of top sales is not yet possible. Bed, bath and square-footage figures are not part of deed records and are not available for any of the 10 transfers.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

The 10 transfers span nine different streets, with no street recording more than one sale: Town Farm Road, King Road, King Street, Summit Terrace, River Road, South Main Street, Arch Street, New Braintree Road and Sylvania Grove, plus one transfer with no street address specified. King Road and King Street are separate streets in the data and should not be conflated. With no street-level clustering evident, the only price-tier grouping possible is by the two recorded amounts: both the $120,000 and $250,000 sales fall under the $500,000 mark. The remaining eight transfers cannot yet be sorted into tiers because their prices are not available.

MARKET NOTES

Several of the recorded transfers list a bank or mortgage-related entity, rather than an individual, as grantor or grantee. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. appears as a seller alongside Texana Bank NA, Rocket Mortgage LLC and Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp on three separate transfers (31 Town Farm Road, 11 Summit Terrace and 103 South Main Street), and North Brookfield Savings Bank appears as both a buyer, in the $250,000 transfer, and a seller, alongside an individual, in the 24 King St. transfer. The 18 Arch St. sale similarly involved a bank, Salem Five Cents Savings Bank, as buyer. That is four of the 10 recorded transfers involving a bank or mortgage-servicing entity on one side of the deed, a notable share of the period's activity. Two other transfers, 57 New Braintree Road and 24 Sylvania Grove, each list two sellers sharing a surname, consistent with a transfer within the same family; the data does not indicate the reason. No sale price, buyer, seller or address beyond what is listed above was available for any transaction. Property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family) is not specified in the deed data provided.

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.