Charlemont Records Nine Property Transfers While Nearly All Sale Prices Remain Pending

CHARLEMONT -- Nine property deeds were recorded in Charlemont between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, but sale prices had posted for only one of them as of this writing, leaving most of the period's market activity undocumented in registry data for now.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Franklin County Registry of Deeds recorded nine Charlemont property transfers during the four-week period. A sale price was available for one transaction: 178 Legate Hill Road, which closed at $39,000. Because only one of nine deeds carries a price, that $39,000 figure stands as both the full range and the median for the period; it should not be read as representative of the other eight transfers. Prices for those remaining deeds were not yet available in registry records, which typically post within about a week of recording. Based on raw deed count alone, nine recorded transfers is a typical volume for a small town over a four-week span, though price data are too sparse to characterize the period as active or quiet.

TOP SALES With only one priced transaction, a ranked list of top sales is not yet possible. The sole recorded price: 178 Legate Hill Road sold for $39,000 on Sept. 14. The sellers were listed as Robert P. DiNicolantonio and Jean M. DiNicolantonio; the buyers were listed as Franklin First and Greylock FCU. Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records. The remaining eight transfers, listed below by street, had no price in registry data as of this writing.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN East Hawley Road: Two addresses on this street had recorded deeds. 57 East Hawley Road was recorded twice on Oct. 1, first with Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust as seller and no buyer listed, then with "By Atty; Onity Mortgage Corp Atty" as seller and Alternative Holdings LLC as buyer. Separately, 14 East Hawley Road transferred Sept. 21 from Franklin First Federal Credit Union to Jean M. Brisson.

Legate Hill Road: Two addresses on this street had recorded deeds. 520 Legate Hill Road transferred Sept. 21 from Franklin First Federal Credit Union to Elizabeth A. Bouyea, and 178 Legate Hill Road, the $39,000 sale, closed Sept. 14.

Other streets: South River Road (552 South River Road, transferred Oct. 1 from Fleet National Bank and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to Donna M. Billings and Deane M. Billings), Schaefer Way (62 Schaefer Way, transferred Sept. 18 with Lynden Lyman, trustee of a revocable trust, as seller and no buyer listed), and Mohawk Trail (2055 Mohawk Trail, transferred Sept. 11 with the estate of Roger A. King as seller and no buyer listed). One additional deed, recorded Sept. 17, lists Elizabeth A. Bouyea as seller with no street address or buyer listed in the data provided.

MARKET NOTES Four of the nine recorded deeds list no buyer in the available data, and several transfers name financial institutions as sellers, including Fleet National Bank, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust, Onity Mortgage Corp. and Franklin First Federal Credit Union. One deed names a revocable trust as seller, and one names an estate as seller. These patterns suggest a mix of transfer types beyond conventional market sales, though the data does not indicate the reason behind any individual transfer. Deed records do not include property type, square footage or bed/bath counts, so no price-per-square-foot or housing-type comparisons can be made for this period. With eight of nine prices still pending, a fuller picture of September's Charlemont market will depend on data that has not yet reached the registry.

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.