Price Data Lags in Heath as Bank and Municipal Sellers Dominate September Deeds

HEATH -- Seven property deeds were recorded in Heath between Sept. 4 and Oct. 3, but only one carried a sale price in the registry's data as of this writing: a $31,000 transfer on Route 8A. The other six transactions list "price not yet available," and several of the month's deeds involved banks, a mortgage servicer, or the town treasurer as the seller rather than a private owner.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Seven deeds were recorded for the period. Of those, one has a posted sale price: $31,000 for 594 Route 8A. Because only one of seven transactions has a recorded price, the registry's current range and median both stand at $31,000, a figure drawn from a single transaction rather than the full set of sales. The remaining six prices are expected to post to the registry in the coming days, which is the normal lag for recently recorded deeds. Seven recorded transfers in a four-week span is a modest number in raw count for Heath, a small town where deed activity is typically light.

TOP SALES

The only transaction with a recorded price is 594 Route 8A, which sold for $31,000 on Sept. 28. The seller was listed as Treehouse Series Properties V LLC, by attorney, with SN Servicing Corp also named as attorney on the deed; the buyer was William Slavin. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed data.

The remaining six transfers do not yet have recorded prices and cannot be ranked by sale amount: a property with no listed street address that sold Oct. 1 from T Bank to Dana L. Blackburn and Jonathan P. Diamond; 156 Colrain Stage Rd., sold Sept. 30 from T Bank and Traders Trust Co. to Mark E. and Stephanie J. Bird; 20 Number Nine Rd., sold Sept. 21 from Greenfield Savings Bank to Joseph M. Del Rosso; 1 Shawnee Dr., sold Sept. 21 from the Heath Town Treasurer to Ann S. Pacino and Janet Nolan; 8 Lakeview Dr., sold Sept. 8 from Earl Wickline to Massachusetts Electric Co.; and 144 Branch Hill Rd., sold Sept. 4, with Margaret Boudreau listed as seller and no buyer named in the available data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

The month's transfers were spread across six different streets, with no two recorded sales sharing the same road: Route 8A, Colrain Stage Road, Number Nine Road, Shawnee Drive, Lakeview Drive and Branch Hill Road. One transaction listed no street address. By price tier, only the Route 8A sale can be placed in a bracket, falling under $500,000 at $31,000. The remaining six transfers cannot be sorted into price tiers until their sale amounts post to the registry.

MARKET NOTES

Several of September's recorded sellers were financial institutions or a government entity rather than individual owners: T Bank appears as a seller on two deeds, Greenfield Savings Bank on one, and SN Servicing Corp is named as attorney alongside Treehouse Series Properties V LLC on the Route 8A sale. The Heath Town Treasurer is listed as seller on the Shawnee Drive transfer. One buyer, Massachusetts Electric Co., is a utility company rather than an individual, distinguishing that transaction from the month's owner-to-owner transfers. The Branch Hill Road deed lists a seller but no buyer in the available data. Price-per-square-foot comparisons and property-type breakdowns beyond these ownership patterns are not possible given the limited price and specification data available for this period.

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.