Only Sale Price Recorded in Ashfield This Period Holds at $200,000

ASHFIELD -- Seven property deeds were recorded in Ashfield between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, but only one of those transactions has a sale price on file so far. The Franklin County Registry of Deeds shows a $200,000 transfer on Cummington Road as the sole priced sale of the period, with the remaining six still awaiting price data.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded seven property transfers in Ashfield during the four-week period ending Sept. 19. Of those seven, one carries a sale price: $200,000, for a property on Cummington Road recorded Sept. 18. Because that is the only transaction with a price on file, it stands as both the low and high end of the range and as the median for the period. Prices for the other six transactions had not yet reached the registry as of Sept. 19. That is normal: sale prices for recorded deeds typically post within about a week, so several of this period's figures may still appear in the registry's records. Based on the raw count alone, seven recorded property transfers over four weeks reflects a modest but steady pace of activity for a small town the size of Ashfield; the data does not support characterizing the period as either especially active or especially quiet beyond that count.

TOP SALES 297 Cummington Road sold for $200,000, recorded Sept. 18. The sellers were Matthew Robert Bousquet and Liza Bousquet; the deed lists CrossCountry Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as grantee, a pairing of entities commonly seen in mortgage financing recordings. Bedroom, bathroom and square footage figures were not available from the deed record. No other transaction recorded in Ashfield during this period has a sale price on file yet, so no further transactions can be ranked among the period's top sales at this time. Once additional prices post, later coverage will reflect the full range of the period's sales.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The seven deeds recorded during the period touched seven different locations: Cummington Road, Buckland Road, an unspecified Ashfield address, Creamery Road, Bug Hill Road, Lilliput Road and Apple Valley Road. No street had more than one recorded transaction, so no street-level cluster emerged this period. Because a sale price is available for only one of the seven properties, a breakdown by price tier is not yet possible for the remaining six; that breakdown may become feasible in a future roundup once more prices post.

MARKET NOTES Two of the seven transactions list a lending institution as the seller: PeoplesBank on Creamery Road and UMassFive College Federal Credit Union on Lilliput Road, a pattern sometimes seen when a bank has taken title to a property before it passes to a new owner. Two other transactions list mortgage-industry entities as the buyer: CrossCountry Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. on Cummington Road, and Rocket Mortgage LLC on Apple Valley Road. That pairing typically indicates a mortgage-related recording rather than a change in who occupies the property. One transaction, at 222 Buckland Road, lists the same two names, Cariel Klein and Stacy Klein, as both seller and buyer. Another, on Bug Hill Road, lists George A. Allard Jr. and Karen A. Allard as trustees, with no buyer named in the record provided. Bedroom, bathroom and square footage figures were not available for any property in this dataset, and none of the deed records provided specified property type, such as single-family, condominium or multi-family.

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.