Shelburne home prices stay hidden as only one of 10 July sales disclosed

SHELBURNE -- Ten property deeds were recorded in Shelburne between July 6 and July 27, according to Franklin County Registry of Deeds records, but only one of those transactions disclosed a sale price, leaving most of the month's market activity undocumented in dollar terms.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deeds were recorded during the period reviewed, covering properties on eight different streets plus one transaction listed with no street address. Only one of the 10 sales disclosed a sale price: $100,000 for a property on Smead Hill Road. Because nine of the 10 transactions did not include a consideration amount, the data does not support a meaningful price range or median for the month's overall market -- the $100,000 figure reflects a single disclosed transaction, not a representative sample of what Shelburne property is selling for. Based on deed volume alone, 10 recorded transfers is a moderate count for a four-week span in a town the size of Shelburne, though no prior-period figures are available in this dataset for comparison, so it is not possible to say whether the period was more or less active than usual.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a disclosed price was 97 Smead Hill Road, which sold for $100,000 on July 10. The sellers were Justin R. Norman and Asha G. Cahillane; the buyer was Greenfield Cooperative Bank. No other recorded deed in the period included a sale price, so the remaining nine transactions -- spanning Colrain Shelburne Road, Shelburne Center Road, Dragon Hill Road, Bardwells Ferry Road, Main Street and Old Greenfield Road -- cannot be ranked or compared by dollar value with the available data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Main Street had two recorded transfers: 137 Main St., which sold July 13 with Suntrust Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as sellers and Kevin D. Parsons as buyer; and 110 Main St., which sold July 9 with Peter C. Mead as seller. Dragon Hill Road also had two recorded deeds, both dated July 20 and tied to the same address: 38 Dragon Hill Road, with seller Florence Meleo Meyer Tr., and a condominium unit at that address, 38 Dragon Hill Road Unit 38 Dragon Hill Condo, with sellers Dragon Hill Condo and Florence M. Meyer and buyer Florence Meleo Meyer Tr. -- a transfer of the unit into the same owner's trust. The remaining six sales were each on separate streets: 108 Colrain Shelburne Road (July 27, sellers Matthew and Alexandra Sieffert); 304 Shelburne Center Road (July 22, seller T Bank, buyer Arke Realty LLC); 297 Bardwells Ferry Road (July 16, seller Operative Bank, buyers John W. and Christopher N. Richardson); 278 Old Greenfield Road (July 6, seller Tara C. Mason, buyer Edward R. Whitaker); and one deed recorded July 27 listing only "Shelburne, MA," with seller John Nicholas Waynelovich and no street address or buyer given.

MARKET NOTES Four of the 10 recorded deeds listed a bank or mortgage-related entity as either grantor or grantee: T Bank as seller on Shelburne Center Road, Operative Bank as seller on Bardwells Ferry Road, Suntrust Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as sellers on Main Street, and Greenfield Cooperative Bank as buyer on Smead Hill Road. That means four in 10 transactions this period involved a lender or loan-servicing entity on one side of the deed. The Dragon Hill Road transfer was the only sale identifiable as a within-family or trust transaction, with Florence Meleo Meyer appearing as both a related seller and as the buyer's trust. No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data is available from deed records, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made, and property type -- single-family versus condominium -- can only be confirmed for the Dragon Hill Road condo unit. With just one of 10 deeds disclosing a price, this month's dataset offers limited insight into actual market values in Shelburne, and readers should treat the $100,000 figure as a single data point rather than a town-wide benchmark.

Recorded Deeds

Source: Registry of Deeds. Sale amounts shown as recorded; transfers without a disclosed consideration are noted as such.

Jul 6 - Jul 12

Jul 13 - Jul 19

Jul 20 - Jul 26

Jul 27 - Aug 2

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