Just One of Nine Charlemont Deeds Recorded Last Month Discloses a Sale Price

CHARLEMONT -- Franklin County Registry of Deeds records show nine property transfers in Charlemont between July 24 and August 22, but only one deed lists a sale price, leaving most of the period's activity undocumented in dollar terms.

MARKET OVERVIEW Nine deeds were recorded in Charlemont during the period. Of those, only one, a $62,500 transaction that closed August 21, discloses a consideration amount, meaning the disclosed price range and median both sit at $62,500. The other eight transfers carry no sale price in the registry data, which is common for certain deed types but means the overall price level and market value trends for the month cannot be assessed from this dataset. Based on raw count alone, nine recorded transfers is a moderate volume of activity for a small town over a four-week span, though the data does not indicate whether that is higher or lower than a typical month.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a disclosed price was a $62,500 sale that closed August 21, with Virtual Land Club LLC as seller and Gary Kochapski as buyer. Beyond that transaction, no dollar figures are available to rank the remaining eight transfers by price. Among them, several involve commercial or institutional sellers: Olde Willow Inn LLC sold a property at 1463 Route 2 on August 18; Deerfield Valley Farms LLC sold a property at 82 East Hawley Road on July 30; and Berkshire East Ski Resort sold a property at 66 Thunder Mountain Road on July 29. A property at 60 South River Road sold August 11, with Florence Bank and Florence Savings Bank listed as seller and William and Jessica Musiak as buyers; none of these four disclose a price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The nine transfers were spread across eight different roads: Route 2, South River Road, West Oxbow Road, Avery Brook Road, Heath Road, Hawk Hill Road, East Hawley Road and Thunder Mountain Road, plus one listing recorded without a specific street address. No two sales shared the same street, so no street-level clustering appears in the data. By price tier, only one sale, the $62,500 transaction, falls into a known tier; the remaining eight cannot be sorted by price since no consideration amount was recorded.

MARKET NOTES Beds, baths and square footage are not available in deed records, so no size or price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made. Several transfers in the period involve trusts. On August 6, Edward A. Bimbo, as trustee of the Bimbo Investment Trust, was both seller and buyer of record on a transaction involving a property at 24 Avery Brook Road, and a separate deed the same day transferred 24 Heath Road from Edward A. Bimbo individually to Edward A. Bimbo Tr. and the Bimbo Investment Trust. A third transfer, recorded August 3 for a property at 79 Hawk Hill Road, moved ownership from Jonah A. Keane Tr. and the Peter A. Kerr Trust to Jonah A. Keane and Charis W. Keane. A fourth, recorded July 30 for 82 East Hawley Road, transferred from Deerfield Valley Farms LLC to Howard M. Krusz Tr. and the Lawrence A. Krusz Investment Trust. These four deeds fit a pattern of transfers involving trusts or family entities rather than open-market sales between unrelated buyers and sellers. Business entities also appear as sellers in three of the nine transfers: Virtual Land Club LLC, Olde Willow Inn LLC and Deerfield Valley Farms LLC, along with Berkshire East Ski Resort as a fourth commercial seller.

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.