Only One of 10 Ashfield Property Sales Discloses a Price This Month

ASHFIELD -- Ten properties changed hands in Ashfield between June 19 and July 18, according to deeds recorded at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds, but only one transaction included a disclosed sale price, limiting what can be said about the town's overall price trends this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten sales were recorded during the period. Of those, only one -- the June 13 transfer of 1016 West Road for $110,000 -- included a disclosed sale price, so no meaningful price range or median can be calculated across the full dataset. Based on raw transaction count alone, the period saw a comparable-to-typical pace of activity for a small town, though the absence of price data for nine of 10 deeds makes it impossible to characterize the market as active or quiet in dollar terms.

TOP SALES 1016 West Road sold for $110,000 on July 13. Mandi E. Summers and Thomas F. Moore were the sellers; Florence Bank was the buyer. The remaining nine transfers carried no disclosed sale price and cannot be ranked by value. They are, in order of recording: 193 Norton Hill Road (July 15, sellers Ariel Brooks and Nathaniel Brooks); 1180 Hawley Road (July 13, seller Greenfield Savings Bank, buyers Jean A. Cherdack and Robert N. Cherdack); an unaddressed Ashfield property (July 7, seller JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, buyers Raymond P. Szewczyk and Diana F. Szewczyk); 295 Main Street (July 1, sellers Nicholas Von Bujdoss and Martha Von Bujdoss); 527 Main Street (July 1, seller Michael Epstein, buyer Main LLC); 393 Baptist Corner Road (July 1, sellers Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust Inc. and Seth T. Cranston); 46 Brown Road (June 30, sellers Maureen Conroy and Tekla A. McInerney); 261 Main Street (June 29, sellers Philip St. Pierre and Megan Perry); and 892 West Road (June 26, sellers Kyle Walker and Colleen Walker).

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Main Street saw the most activity of any street in the period, with three separate transfers recorded: 295 Main Street, 527 Main Street and 261 Main Street. West Road had two transfers: 1016 West Road and 892 West Road. The remaining five sales were spread across Norton Hill Road, Hawley Road, Baptist Corner Road, Brown Road and one property listed without a street address. With only one disclosed price in the entire dataset, sales cannot be grouped into price tiers.

MARKET NOTES Bank entities appear as a party in three of the 10 transfers: Florence Bank as buyer at 1016 West Road, Greenfield Savings Bank as seller at 1180 Hawley Road, and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA as seller in the unaddressed Ashfield transfer. Deed records do not indicate the nature of these transactions, and no motivation should be inferred. Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust Inc. appears as a grantor party in the Baptist Corner Road transfer. One buyer, Main LLC, is a business entity rather than an individual. Property type -- single-family, multi-family or otherwise -- is not specified in the deed data and cannot be reported. With sale prices disclosed for just one of 10 transactions, no price-per-square-foot or price-trend comparisons are possible this period.

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

Jul 13 - Jul 19

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