Only One of 10 Wendell Property Transfers Discloses a Sale Price

WENDELL -- Ten property transfers were recorded at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds for Wendell between June 19 and July 18, but only one included a disclosed sale price, limiting what can be said about the town's overall market conditions this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deeds were recorded during the period. Of those, only the transfer of 216 Jennison Road on July 15 listed a consideration amount: $46,000. Because that is the sole disclosed price, it also stands as both the low and high end of the recorded range, and as the median. The other nine transfers were recorded without a stated sale price, which is common for certain deed types, including foreclosure and bank-related transfers, family transfers, and municipal or utility transactions. With price data unavailable for nine of the 10 recorded transfers, the raw count of 10 is the only firm indicator of activity level for the period; whether that represents an active or quiet month cannot be determined without comparable pricing data.

TOP SALES 216 Jennison Road sold July 15 for $46,000, the only transaction in the period with a disclosed price. The sellers were Leah Marie Visconti and Brian W. Easton; the buyer was Country Bank For Savings. The remaining nine transfers recorded during the period did not include a disclosed sale price, so a ranked list of top sales beyond this single transaction is not possible from the available data. Among those transfers were properties at 25 Plain Road (sold July 15, seller Phyllis M. Brooks), 1 Elm Street (sold July 13, seller Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Embrace Home Loans Inc., buyer Craig Morey), and 1 Kentfield Road (sold July 2, seller Workers Federal Credit Union and Member First Mortgage LLC, buyer Jon G. Lyman).

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Jennison Road was the only street with more than one recorded transfer: 216 Jennison Road sold July 15 to Country Bank For Savings, and 281 Jennison Road sold June 26 from Janice R. Doubleday to Niles Bowen Doubleday and Ayla Jan Skorupa. The remaining eight transfers were spread across eight other locations -- Plain Road, Elm Street, Kentfield Road, Locks Village Road, Wendell Depot Road, Bear Mountain Road, Farley Road, and an unaddressed parcel listed only as Wendell, MA -- with no other geographic clustering evident in the period's deed data. Because only one transfer disclosed a price, a breakdown by price tier is not possible.

MARKET NOTES Several of the period's transfers involved lenders or loan servicers as the recorded party, based on the grantor and grantee names in the deed data: 216 Jennison Road (Country Bank For Savings as buyer), 1 Elm Street (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Embrace Home Loans Inc. as sellers), 274 Locks Village Road (North Brookfield Savings Bank as seller), 41 Bear Mountain Road (T Bank as seller), and 1 Kentfield Road (Workers Federal Credit Union and Member First Mortgage LLC as sellers). One transfer, at 281 Jennison Road, involved a shared family surname between seller Janice R. Doubleday and buyer Niles Bowen Doubleday. The July 2 transfer with no street address listed seller as Wendell Town Taxes alongside Lola M. Hess. The June 24 transfer of 222 Wendell Depot Road listed Massachusetts Electric Co. and Verizon New England Inc. as buyers, indicating a utility-related transaction rather than a residential home sale. The June 22 transfer of 351 Farley Road listed Franklin County Regional Housing Authority and a redevelopment entity as seller, with Sandra and Lawrence H. Marlowe as buyers. Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures were not available in the deed data for any transfer, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 13 - Jul 19

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