Shutesbury Sale Prices Span $10,000 To $415,000 In October

SHUTESBURY -- Nine properties changed hands in Shutesbury between Sept. 25 and Oct. 24, according to Franklin County Registry of Deeds records, but sale prices have been recorded for only two of those transactions so far, limiting a full read on the month's market.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Nine deeds were recorded in Shutesbury during the period. Of those, two listed a consideration amount: $10,000 and $415,000, producing a median of $212,500 across the available price data. The remaining seven transactions, about 78% of the month's total, have not yet had sale prices posted to the registry, which typically appears within about a week of recording. Based on the raw count alone, nine recorded transfers in a four-week span represents a moderate level of deed activity for Shutesbury, though without comparable prior-month figures the pace cannot be characterized further.

TOP SALES

134 Leonard Road sold for $415,000 on Oct. 13, the highest recorded price of the period. Kurt J. Marchl was the seller; Florence Bank was the listed buyer. The only other transaction with a recorded price was a $10,000 transfer with no street address specified in county records, sold Oct. 8, with Stephen J. Puffer and Janet M. Puffer as sellers and David A. Puffer as buyer, an intrafamily transfer involving shared surnames. The remaining seven sales recorded during the period, at 230 Leverett Road, 51 Pelham Hill Road, 9 Round Hills Road, 98 January Hills Road, 145 Lakeview Road, 104 Lake Drive and 288 Leverett Road, have not yet had prices posted and cannot be ranked among top sales at this time.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Leverett Road accounted for two of the nine transfers, at 230 Leverett Road (sold Oct. 9) and 288 Leverett Road (sold Sept. 28), though neither has a recorded price yet. No other street had more than one recorded transfer during the period. By price tier, the two sales with available figures fall at opposite ends of the spectrum: the $10,000 transfer sits well under $500,000, while the $415,000 Leonard Road sale also falls under the $500,000 mark, meaning all currently priced sales in Shutesbury this period were below that threshold. No sales with recorded prices exceeded $500,000.

MARKET NOTES

Banks appear as a party in three of the nine transactions: Greenfield Savings Bank as seller at 230 Leverett Road, Citizens Bank NA as seller at 9 Round Hills Road, and Florence Bank as buyer at 134 Leonard Road. Two transfers involved estates as sellers, at 98 January Hills Road (Palmer John D Estate) and 145 Lakeview Road (Carey Robert W Sr Estate). Two others involved trustees, at 51 Pelham Hill Road (Van Emmerik and Worthington as trustees) and 9 Round Hills Road (Lovley as trustees, on the buyer side). The $10,000 Puffer-to-Puffer transfer also shares a family surname between seller and buyer. Deed records for this period do not include property type, bed/bath counts or square footage, so no distinction between single-family, condominium or multi-family properties, nor any price-per-square-foot comparison, can be made from the available data.

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.