Winchendon Deed Filings Show Wide Price Gaps From $18,380 to $375,000

WINCHENDON -- Sixteen property deeds were recorded in Winchendon between June 19 and July 18, but only three listed a sale price, ranging from $18,380 to $375,000. More than half of the recorded transfers involved a bank, mortgage company, or loan-registration entity as buyer or seller.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 16 Winchendon property transfers during the period. Of those, three disclosed a sale price, ranging from $18,380 to $375,000, with a median of $100,000 among the disclosed sales. The remaining 13 transfers listed no consideration amount, which is common for deed records and does not necessarily indicate the properties changed hands without payment. With disclosed pricing limited to three of 16 transactions, the overall count shows recording activity was steady across the four-week period, but the price data available is too thin to characterize the broader market as strong or weak.

TOP SALES

A property in Winchendon sold for $375,000 on June 24, the highest disclosed price of the period. The seller was listed as Alec Barrows; the buyers were Workers Federal Credit Union and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.

24 Hill St. sold for $100,000 on June 24. The sellers were Tamie L. Charbonneau and Brian J. Charbonneau; the buyer was IC Federal Credit Union.

356 Central St. sold for $18,380 on June 23. The sellers were Brandon B. Cordio and Patricia J. Cordio; the buyer was listed as Urban Development.

No other transactions in the dataset included a disclosed sale price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Two sales during the period were recorded on Winter Street: 71 Winter St. (June 23, price not disclosed, seller Rocket Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.) and 29 Winter St. (June 22, price not disclosed, sellers James Holly and Julie Holly). No other street had more than one recorded transfer. The remaining 14 transfers were spread across 13 different streets, including Hill Street, Beaman Court, Town Farm Road, Central Street, Wendell Drive, Alger Street, North Ashburnham Road, Juniper Street, Elm Street, Benjamin Street, Franklin Street, Old Gardner Road, and Hale Street, plus one transfer with no street address listed. Of the three sales with disclosed prices, all fell under $500,000; no price tier above that threshold is represented in the disclosed data.

MARKET NOTES

Nine of the 16 recorded transfers, more than half, listed a bank, mortgage lender, or Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as either the buyer or the seller. These included transfers involving Wells Fargo Bank NA and Freedom Mortgage Corp. (two separate transactions, at 1 Wendell Dr. and 162 Hale St.), Rocket Mortgage LLC and MERS (at 215 N. Ashburnham Rd. and 71 Winter St.), MERS and Plaza Home Mortgage Inc. (at 202 Alger St.), Allied First Bank SB and ServBank (at 130 Elm St.), and Main Street Bank (at 330 Benjamin St.). Because deed data does not distinguish transaction type, these may reflect refinancing, foreclosure processing, or other lender-to-lender recordings rather than traditional buyer-to-seller home sales; no sale price was disclosed for any of them.

One transfer, at 84 Juniper St., moved property from the Mary Biear Trust to Mary Bieár as trustee, a within-family trust transfer. Another, at 17 Old Gardner Rd., listed the Town of Winchendon as a seller alongside Jean L. Rocheleau. No square-footage, bedroom, or bathroom data was available for any property in this dataset, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons could be calculated. Property type (single-family, condominium, or multi-family) was also not specified in the deed records provided.

Recorded Deeds

Source: Registry of Deeds. Sale amounts shown as recorded; transfers without a disclosed consideration are noted as such.

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.