Conway's Two Priced Sales Both Close at $80,000 in October

CONWAY -- Ten property transfers were recorded in Conway between Sept. 25 and Oct. 24, but only two carried a sale price in the registry data so far, both for $80,000 and both involving a bank as the buyer.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Franklin County Registry of Deeds recorded 10 property transfers in Conway during the period. Of those, two have a sale price listed: both at $80,000, making the recorded price range $80,000 to $80,000 and the median $80,000. The other eight transfers have no price yet in the data, which is typical for recently filed deeds and usually reflects a reporting lag rather than a withheld figure. Based on raw count alone, 10 transfers is a measurable volume of activity for the town, though with price data available for only two of them, the period's actual dollar activity cannot be fully assessed yet.

TOP SALES 2966 Shelburne Falls Road sold for $80,000 on Sept. 29. Seller was Jeremy C. Sinkus; buyer was Greenfield Cooperative Bank. Bed, bath and square footage figures are not available from deed records. 354 Hart Road sold for $80,000 on Sept. 28. Seller was Ben E. Barnhart, trustee of the Lorinser Investment Trust; buyer was Greenfield Savings Bank. The remaining eight transfers, listed below by street, do not yet have recorded prices: 42 North Hill Drive, 281 Old Crickett Hill Road (also recorded as 281 Old Cricket Hill Road), 288 Truce Road, 55 Ashfield Road, an address in Conway without a street listed, 287 Williamsburg Road, and 2930 Shelburne Falls Road. Because no price is available, these cannot be ranked against the two above.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Shelburne Falls Road had two transfers in the period, at 2930 and 2966, one of which carries the $80,000 recorded price. The Old Crickett Hill Road address at 281 appears twice in the data, once spelled "Crickett" and once "Cricket," both tied to the same seller, Marguerite C. Gump, trustee of the Marguerite C. Gump Revocable Trust; this may reflect a single transfer recorded with a spelling variation rather than two separate sales. The remaining transfers, on North Hill Drive, Truce Road, Ashfield Road, Williamsburg Road and Hart Road, are each single transactions on their respective streets. With only two of 10 transfers priced, a price-tier breakdown is not meaningful for this period.

MARKET NOTES Several sellers and buyers in this period are financial institutions rather than individual owners: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Guild Mortgage Co. LLC appear as sellers on Truce Road, Florence Bank and Florence Savings Bank as sellers on Ashfield Road, Greenfield Cooperative Bank as seller on Williamsburg Road and as buyer on Shelburne Falls Road, and Greenfield Savings Bank as buyer on Hart Road. That pattern, banks appearing on both sides of multiple transfers, is common in deed data tied to mortgage servicing or bank-owned property sales. Two transfers, at North Hill Drive and Old Crickett Hill Road, involve sellers and trusts sharing the same names, consistent with a within-family or estate-related transfer; the data does not indicate why. No bed, bath or square footage figures were available for any transfer this period, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons could be made.

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.