Leverett Sale Prices Range From $90,000 To Nearly $300,000 In Latest Deeds

LEVERETT -- Nine property transfers were recorded in Leverett between June 19 and July 18, but only four listed a sale price, ranging from $90,000 to $293,300, according to Franklin County Registry of Deeds records.

MARKET OVERVIEW Nine deeds were recorded during the four-week period. Of those, four disclosed a sale price, ranging from $90,000 to $293,300, with a median of $161,500 among the disclosed sales. The remaining five transactions did not include a consideration amount in the deed record. Nine recorded deeds is a notable count for a small town like Leverett, though without prior-month figures for comparison, the raw count alone does not establish whether the period was unusually active or quiet.

TOP SALES The highest-priced disclosed sale was 20 North Leverett Road, which sold for $293,300 on July 1. The deed lists Marielle L. Emond as seller and Greenfield Savings Bank as buyer. A second sale, 247 Long Plain Road, sold for $200,000 on July 1, with Patrick J. Geryk as seller and UMassFive College Federal Credit Union as buyer. At 25 Laurel Hill Drive, the property sold for $123,000 on June 29, with Astrid C. Schween as seller and PNC Bank NA as buyer. The lowest disclosed sale, 32 Juggler Meadow Road, sold for $90,000 on July 6; the sellers were James R. Watson and Ann Marie Watson, and the buyer was UMassFive College Federal Credit Union.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Long Plain Road saw three separate transfers during the period -- at 200 Long Plain Road (July 2), 247 Long Plain Road (July 1) and 309 Long Plain Road (June 25) -- more than any other street in the dataset. Only the 247 Long Plain Road sale disclosed a price. North Leverett Road also had two deeds recorded the same day, July 1: one for 20 North Leverett Road at $293,300, and a second for 20 N Leverett Road, listing the Leverett Affordable Housing Trust and Greenfield Savings Bank as sellers, with no price disclosed and no buyer listed in the record. Among the four disclosed sales, two fell under $150,000 (32 Juggler Meadow Road at $90,000 and 25 Laurel Hill Drive at $123,000), one fell between $150,000 and $250,000 (247 Long Plain Road at $200,000), and one exceeded $250,000 (20 North Leverett Road at $293,300).

MARKET NOTES Five of the nine recorded deeds, or more than half, did not disclose a sale price, limiting how much can be said about overall property values for the period. A bank or credit union appears as buyer in three of the four disclosed-price transactions -- Greenfield Savings Bank, UMassFive College Federal Credit Union (twice) -- and UMassFive also appears as seller in a fourth, undisclosed-price transaction at 88 Shutesbury Road. One deed involved the Leverett Town Assessors as seller, for a property with no street address listed in the record, transferring to Molly Cantor and Evan Duverlie on June 29 with no price disclosed. Bed, bath and square-footage figures are not available in deed records, so no price-per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made from this dataset.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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