One Priced Sale Recorded in Orange as Most August Deeds Await Data

ORANGE -- The Franklin County Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transfers in Orange between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, but sale prices had posted for only one of them by the time of this report, leaving the broader pricing picture for the period incomplete.

MARKET OVERVIEW Twelve property transfers were recorded in Orange during the period. Of those, one carries a recorded sale price: $170,000 for the property at 465 Tully Road. A second entry, at 131 Fairman Road, involved a nominal consideration under $10,000 and is not counted as a market sale. The remaining 10 transfers show no price yet, which is typical for recently filed deeds and generally reflects a reporting lag at the registry rather than withheld information. With only one priced sale on record, there isn't enough price data this period to calculate a meaningful median or assess pricing trends. Based on the raw count alone, 12 recorded transfers is a typical volume of registry activity for a one-month span in a town the size of Orange, though no comparison data is available to characterize the period as active or quiet.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a recorded price is 465 Tully Road, which sold for $170,000 on Aug. 26. The sellers were Leeann Stephanie Pereira and John Christopher Vargas; the buyers listed are Northpoint Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. No other transfers in this period have posted a sale price, so no further ranking is possible until additional pricing data becomes available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street in this period had more than one recorded transfer; the 12 transactions were spread across 12 different addresses, including Tully Road, South Shore Drive, Wheeler Avenue, King Street, Adams Street, Walnut Road, Walnut Hill Road, Main Street, Lake Mattawa Road, New Athol Road, Fairman Road and Mechanic Street. Because only one transfer has a recorded price, a price-tier breakdown is not meaningful this period: the single priced sale, at $170,000, falls under the $500,000 mark, and the nominal-consideration transfer at 131 Fairman Road is excluded from any tier comparison.

MARKET NOTES Seven of the 12 recorded transfers listed a bank, mortgage company or the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems as either grantor or grantee: 465 Tully Road, 56 Wheeler Avenue, 42 King Street, 72 Adams Street, 262 Main Street, 40 Lake Mattawa Road and 53 New Athol Road. That accounts for more than half of the period's filings. The deed data does not specify property type, bedroom count, bathroom count or square footage for any of the 12 transfers, so no per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made this period. One transfer, at 131 Fairman Road, was recorded for a nominal consideration under $10,000 between Robert Bessette and SJTRE LLC; the names on file do not indicate a family, trust or estate relationship, so none is reported.

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.