Only One of Ten Heath Deeds Carries a Recorded Sale Price

HEATH -- Ten property transfers were recorded at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds for Heath between Sept. 25 and Oct. 24, but only one carried a sale price so far, and six of the ten listed the town itself as the buyer in what appear to be tax title takings rather than market sales.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deeds were recorded in the period, dated between Sept. 28 and Oct. 14. Of those, one has a recorded consideration amount in the registry data: $31,000 for the property at 594 Route 8A. The remaining nine show no price yet, which typically reflects a data lag at the registry of about a week rather than any withholding by the parties involved. With only one priced transaction, a full price range and median cannot be meaningfully calculated beyond that single figure. In terms of raw count, 10 recorded transfers in a month is a notable volume for Heath, though the mix of transaction types, discussed below, means this does not necessarily indicate ten arm's-length home sales.

TOP SALES Because nine of the ten transfers currently show no price, only one transaction can be ranked by sale price at this time. 594 Route 8A sold for $31,000 on Sept. 28. The seller was listed as Treehouse Series Properties V LLC, by attorney, and SN Servicing Corp, attorney; the buyer was William Slavin. The remaining nine recorded transfers, listed below, do not yet have prices available: a parcel with no street address listed (sold Oct. 14, seller Corey Alan and Rice Cynthia Dawn, buyer Heath Town Taxes); 12 Papoose Lake Drive (Oct. 14, seller Martin Kusy, buyer Heath Town Taxes); 3 Chippewa Drive (Oct. 14, sellers Charles Hagist Jr. and Terri J. Hagist, buyer Heath Town Taxes); 32 Navaho Lane (Oct. 14, seller Kevin J. Haas, buyer Heath Town Taxes); 140 Taylor Brook Road (Oct. 14, seller Nello C. Grassetti, buyer Heath Town Taxes); 10 Mohawk Beach Drive (Oct. 14, seller Victoria B. Anderson, buyer Heath Town Taxes); 198 Branch Hill Road (Oct. 9, sellers Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and American Financing Corp, buyer Nicholas C. Tatro); 14 South Road (Oct. 5, seller Edmund Bates, buyer not listed in the data); and 156 Colrain Stage Road (Sept. 30, sellers T Bank and Traders Trust Co., buyers Mark E. Bird and Stephanie J. Bird).

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street in this period had more than one recorded transfer, so there is no street-level clustering to report. By price tier, only one transaction falls into a known bracket: 594 Route 8A, under $500,000, at $31,000. The other nine transactions cannot be sorted into price tiers until their consideration amounts are recorded.

MARKET NOTES The most visible pattern in this period's data is that six of the ten recorded deeds, covering properties on Papoose Lake Drive, Chippewa Drive, Navaho Lane, Taylor Brook Road, Mohawk Beach Drive and one unaddressed parcel, list "Heath Town Taxes" as the buyer. This indicates municipal tax title takings rather than private market sales. Separately, two transactions show lending or mortgage-servicing entities as sellers: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and American Financing Corp at 198 Branch Hill Road, and T Bank and Traders Trust Co. at 156 Colrain Stage Road, both patterns consistent with bank-related transfers. No bed, bath or square footage data was available for any property in this period, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made.

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.