West Brookfield Deed Prices Mostly Undisclosed as Only One August Sale Reports Value

WEST BROOKFIELD -- Fourteen deeds were recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds for West Brookfield properties between July 31 and Aug. 29, but only one transaction included a disclosed sale price. The rest of the month's activity was dominated by trust transfers, bank-related conveyances and an easement, leaving most of the period's property values unknown to the public record.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Fourteen deeds were recorded during the period. Of those, only one, the Aug. 10 transfer of 170 E Main St., listed a sale price: $22,641. Because 13 of the 14 recorded transactions did not disclose a price, a meaningful price range or median cannot be calculated for the month as a whole; the $22,641 figure is the only price point in the dataset. In terms of raw volume, 14 recorded deeds is the total count of activity for the four-week span; no prior-month figures are available for comparison, so this report cannot characterize the period as active or quiet beyond stating the count itself.

TOP SALES

170 E Main St. sold Aug. 10 for $22,641. The seller was listed as Daniel Sears and the buyer as Urban Development. This is the only transaction in the dataset with a disclosed sale price, so it cannot be ranked against other sales this period. The remaining 13 recorded transfers, listed below by location, did not include a sale price in the deed record.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Three streets each had two recorded transfers this period. On Clearview Drive, deeds were recorded for 48 Clearview Dr. (Aug. 14, seller Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Pennymac Loan Services LLC) and 6 Clearview Dr. (Aug. 11, seller Wells Fargo Bank NA to buyer Gary A. Hebert). On Lakeshore Drive, deeds were recorded for 129 Lakeshore Dr. (Aug. 12, seller Bill LaPlante/LaPlante Construction) and 82 Lakeshore Dr. (Aug. 12, seller Susan Sears to the Gayle A. Hashey estate). On Wickaboag Valley Road, deeds were recorded for 153 Wickaboag Valley Rd. (Aug. 18, seller Cynthia Henshaw to East Quabbin Land Trust Inc.) and 72 Wickaboag Valley Rd. (Aug. 6, seller Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Drew Mortgage Associates Inc.). The remaining recorded transfers were spread across individual streets: Kennedy Road, Snow Road, West Main Street, Shea Road, Atwater Avenue, Cottage Street, and one entry listed without a street address. None of these carried a disclosed price. Because only one of the 14 transactions included a sale price, sales cannot be meaningfully grouped into price tiers this period.

MARKET NOTES

The dominant pattern in this period's deed data was the absence of disclosed sale prices: 13 of 14 recorded transfers, or roughly 93%, listed no consideration amount. Several transfers involved parties commonly associated with non-arm's-length conveyances rather than conventional home sales. Two transactions involved the McCaffrey family name on both the seller and buyer sides: one deed recorded Aug. 18 moved property from Anthony J. McCaffrey and Stephanie S. McCaffrey to the Stephanie S. McCaffrey Trust and Anthony J. McCaffrey as trustee, and a second, also recorded Aug. 18 at 55 Snow Rd., moved property from the Anthony J. McCaffrey Trust to Anthony J. McCaffrey as trustee. Three deeds listed a bank or mortgage-registration entity as seller: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. transferred to Pennymac Loan Services LLC (48 Clearview Dr., Aug. 14) and to Drew Mortgage Associates Inc. (72 Wickaboag Valley Rd., Aug. 6), and Wells Fargo Bank NA transferred to Gary A. Hebert (6 Clearview Dr., Aug. 11). One deed, for 89 Kennedy Rd., transferred property from Kevin Blaine and Melissa J. Morrell to Massachusetts Electric Co. and Verizon New England Inc., consistent with a utility easement rather than a residential sale. A deed for 153 Wickaboag Valley Rd. transferred property from Cynthia Henshaw to East Quabbin Land Trust Inc. One deed, for 82 Lakeshore Dr., listed the buyer as the estate of Gayle A. Hashey. No property-type, square-footage, or bedroom/bathroom data was available in the deed records for any of the 14 transactions, so no per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made this period.

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.