One Disclosed Price in 14 Sunderland Transfers Leaves Late-Spring Market Largely Opaque

SUNDERLAND -- Fourteen deeds were recorded in Sunderland between May 28 and June 26, 2026, but only one carried a disclosed sale price, limiting what the data can reveal about current market values.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Fourteen transfers were recorded during the period. Of those, just one — 131 Old Amherst Rd., sold June 26 for $175,000 — included a consideration amount. The remaining 13 transfers were recorded without disclosed prices, which is common when transactions involve estates, trusts, foreclosures, lender activity, or intrafamily conveyances. With only one priced sale, a meaningful price range or median cannot be calculated for this period; the $175,000 figure reflects a single data point, not a market average.
• TOP SALES
• 131 Old Amherst Rd. is the only transaction with a recorded sale price for the period. The property sold June 26 for $175,000; the sellers were Matthew B. Vickery and Jennifer C. Vickery, and the buyer of record is UMassFive College Federal Credit Union. The nature of that transfer — to a credit union rather than an individual homebuyer — suggests this may not represent a standard arm's-length residential sale; no further detail is available from the deed record alone.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• Montague Road saw the most activity of any single street, with three recorded transfers: 327 Montague Rd. (June 22, seller William J. Marini Jr. Est.), 173 Montague Rd. (June 11, seller Donald F. Patterson), and 159 Montague Rd. (June 11, also seller Donald F. Patterson). Old Amherst Road had three transfers as well: 131 Old Amherst Rd. (the only priced sale), 7 Old Amherst Rd. (June 16), and 134 Old Amherst Rd. (June 8). Amherst Road recorded two transfers: 243 Amherst Rd., sold June 10 by HUD through a corporate attorney to Gerald and Joanne E. Frazier, and 691 Amherst Rd., sold June 8 from Joseph F. Ranker to Alyssa Ranker. South Silver Lane and Silver Lane each recorded one transfer, both on June 26, with sellers Gerald and Joan M. Cloutier at 358 South Silver Ln. and Paul F. and Pamela S. Spinale at 358 Silver Ln. — two distinct addresses sharing similar street names. Single transfers also occurred at 40 Reservation Rd., 5 Clark Mountain Rd., 61 South Plain Rd., and one parcel recorded without a street address.
• MARKET NOTES
• Several transfers in this dataset carry characteristics distinct from standard residential sales. The June 25 transfer from Sylvia J. Storozuk to Edward A. Storozuk Jr. — recorded without a street address or price — follows a pattern consistent with an intrafamily conveyance. The two Patterson-to-unknown transfers on Montague Road, recorded the same day from the same seller, may reflect a subdivision or multi-parcel estate transaction. The transfer of 5 Clark Mountain Rd. from Sunderland Storage LLC to Greenfield Cooperative Bank, and the transfer of 61 South Plain Rd. from the Shanahans to Greenfield Savings Bank, involve institutional lenders as grantees — a pattern sometimes associated with foreclosure or deed-in-lieu activity, though the deed records do not confirm that. The 40 Reservation Rd. transfer lists UMassFive College Federal Credit Union as seller and William I. and Ilana L. Schmitt as buyers; read alongside the 131 Old Amherst Rd. transfer in which the same credit union appears as buyer, these may reflect related financing arrangements. None of these characterizations can be confirmed from deed data alone.