Northfield Sale Prices Mostly Undisclosed Despite Twelve Recorded Property Transfers

NORTHFIELD -- Twelve properties changed hands in Northfield between July 17 and Aug. 15, but only one deed recorded a sale price, leaving most of the month's residential market activity without a public dollar figure.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The Franklin County Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transfers in Northfield during the period. Of those, only one, the sale of 459 Millers Falls Road, included a disclosed consideration amount: $470,000. Because that is the only priced transaction in the dataset, it also stands as both the low and high end of the disclosed price range, and the median. With 11 of 12 deeds carrying no sale price, the available figures describe a single transaction rather than the broader market, and no meaningful comparison of pricing trends can be drawn from this period's data. The raw count of 12 recorded transfers in a four-week span reflects a mix of standard sales, bank-related filings and at least one estate transfer, detailed below.

TOP SALES

459 Millers Falls Road sold for $470,000 on Aug. 10. The sellers were Jason Turner and Laura Turner; the buyer was Ariel Dwyer. No bed, bath or square-footage data was available. No other transaction in this period had a disclosed sale price, so no further transactions can be ranked by price. Several other deeds recorded during the period involved lenders or financial institutions as a party but did not disclose a sale amount: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Geneva Financial LLC on the 759 Millers Falls Road deed (Aug. 11); Greenfield Savings Bank, seller, to Stephen F. Shivone and Mary Ann Hastings Shivone at 23 Winchester Road (July 27); and PeoplesBank, seller, to Charles H. Shaw and Virginia R. Toole at 230 Millers Falls Road (July 27).

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Millers Falls Road accounted for three of the 12 recorded transfers during the period: 759 Millers Falls Road (Aug. 11), 459 Millers Falls Road (Aug. 10) and 230 Millers Falls Road (July 27), making it the only street with more than one recorded deed this period. The remaining nine transfers were spread across individual addresses: 217 Birnam Road, 11 Jewett Road, 30 Warwick Road, 77 Old Turnpike Road, 9 Railroad Station Road, 609 Gulf Road, 23 Winchester Road, 45 Pierson Road and an unspecified Northfield address. Because only one sale carried a disclosed price, transfers cannot be grouped into price tiers.

MARKET NOTES

Price-per-square-foot and property-type comparisons are not possible; the deed data does not include square footage, bed and bath counts, or a consistent property-type designation, and pricing is disclosed for only one of 12 transfers. Several deeds show patterns worth noting without speculation on cause. The 77 Old Turnpike Road transfer listed the seller as the estate of Linda Lee Jones, with Courtney V. Hagar as personal representative, an estate-related transfer. The 45 Pierson Road deed lists Lead Bank as buyer with no seller listed in the available data, and the 759 Millers Falls Road deed lists Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Geneva Financial LLC, both entities commonly associated with mortgage or lending transactions rather than a conventional homeowner sale. One deed, for a Northfield address without a specific street listed, shows Erin and David Jaworski as sellers and the Northfield Town Assessors as buyer, a transfer to a municipal entity. Overall, 11 of the 12 deeds recorded in this period did not include a disclosed sale price, a disclosure rate notably lower than would be needed to draw broader conclusions about local price trends this month.

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.