Single Disclosed Sale Price Anchors a Quiet Month of Leyden Deeds

LEYDEN -- Seven property deeds were recorded in Leyden over the past month, but registry data shows a sale price for only one of them so far: $176,000 for a home on Kately Hill Road.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Seven deeds were recorded in Leyden between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10. Of those, one carried a recorded sale price: $176,000, for the property at 39 Kately Hill Rd. Because that is the only price available in the data so far, the recorded price range and the median sale price are both $176,000. Prices for the other six transfers have not yet reached registry data, which typically appears within about a week of recording and does not indicate the parties withheld the figure. Based on the raw count alone, seven deeds is a modest volume for a four-week period, and with six of the seven involving lenders, family members or addresses without a listed buyer, the period reads as a quiet one for arm's-length home sales specifically, separate from the overall deed count.

TOP SALES

The only recorded sale price this period belongs to 39 Kately Hill Rd, which sold for $176,000 on Oct. 8. The sellers were Ashley Barstow and Stephanie Barstow; the buyer was Greenfield Cooperative Bank.

No price has yet reached registry data for the remaining six deeds recorded during the period: 72 Eden Trail (sold Oct. 8, seller NewRez LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., buyers Carlton D. Choiniere and Kayla M. Smith); a parcel listed only as Leyden, MA (sold Oct. 8, seller Luann J. Lamontagne); 164 Greenfield Road (sold Oct. 7, sellers Gregg Kennedy and Marybeth Kennedy); 160 Rolling Lane (sold Oct. 2, seller Karen E. Oneil, buyer Kathleen C. Oneil); 53 South Schoolhouse Road (sold Sept. 29, seller Julia Silverman); and 660 Greenfield Road (sold Sept. 23, seller Freedom Credit Union, buyers Ernest J. Royer and Dianne M. Royer). Sale prices for these transfers are expected to appear in registry data in the coming days.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Greenfield Road accounted for two of the seven recorded deeds, at 164 Greenfield Road and 660 Greenfield Road, making it the only street with more than one transfer this period. The remaining five deeds were spread across five separate locations: Kately Hill Road, Eden Trail, Rolling Lane, South Schoolhouse Road, and one parcel listed only with a Leyden, MA address and no specific street. With only one sale price recorded so far, the data does not support a breakdown by price tier this period.

MARKET NOTES

Three of the seven deeds involved a bank, mortgage servicer or credit union as a party to the transfer: Greenfield Cooperative Bank was the buyer at 39 Kately Hill Rd; NewRez LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. were sellers at 72 Eden Trail; and Freedom Credit Union was the seller at 660 Greenfield Road. One transfer, at 160 Rolling Lane, moved from Karen E. Oneil to Kathleen C. Oneil, a pattern consistent with a transfer within the same family; the registry data does not indicate the reason for that transfer. Two deeds, the Leyden, MA parcel sold by Luann J. Lamontagne and the 164 Greenfield Road property sold by Gregg and Marybeth Kennedy, list a seller but no buyer in the data provided. Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records for any of the seven transfers, and property type is not specified in the 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.