Cummington Registry Shows Four Transfers, Only One Carries a Sale Price

CUMMINGTON -- Hampshire County Registry of Deeds records show four residential property transfers in Cummington between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, but pricing data has posted for only one of them so far, limiting what can be said about the month's market.

MARKET OVERVIEW Four property transfers were recorded in Cummington during the period. Of those, only one carries a sale price on file: $39,727 for 12 Brown Ave. Because registry consideration amounts typically post within about a week of recording, the other three transfers, at 17 Clark Rd, 42 Lilac Ave and 83 Porter Hill Rd, have not yet shown a price. With just one priced transaction, there is not enough data to calculate a meaningful median or price range for the month. The raw count of four recorded transfers is in line with a typical month for a small town like Cummington, though price data lagging this far behind makes it difficult to characterize the period as active or quiet.

TOP SALES 12 Brown Ave sold Oct. 9 for $39,727. The seller was listed as Stephen M. Shaw; the buyer was Mission Loans LLC. 17 Clark Rd sold Sept. 30; price not yet available. The sellers were David R. Sprague and Barbara K. Sprague; the buyer was Greenfield Savings Bank. 42 Lilac Ave sold Sept. 24; price not yet available. The seller was Florence Bank; the buyers were Shane T. Wolf and Brenda L. Wolf. 83 Porter Hill Rd sold Sept. 15; price not yet available. The seller was Greenfield Cooperative Bank; the buyer was James Edward Bernhard.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street had more than one recorded transfer during the period, so no street-level clustering emerged. By price tier, only one transfer has a confirmed price, $39,727 at 12 Brown Ave, which falls well under $100,000. The remaining three transfers, on Clark Road, Lilac Avenue and Porter Hill Road, cannot yet be sorted into a price tier because their consideration amounts have not posted to the registry.

MARKET NOTES Three of the four recorded transfers involved a bank as either the grantor or grantee: Greenfield Savings Bank acquired the Clark Road property from the Spragues; Florence Bank sold the Lilac Avenue property to the Wolfs; and Greenfield Cooperative Bank sold the Porter Hill Road property to Bernhard. The fourth transfer, at Brown Avenue, named Mission Loans LLC as buyer. Bed, bath and square-footage figures are not available from deed records for any of the four properties.

Separately, the registry recorded three other documents in Cummington during the period that are not property sales and are not included in the counts above: a loan modification agreement tied to a property at 44 Main St (previous owners of record: Scott B. Keith and Patricia A. Keith); an amended trustee's certificate tied to the Trouble Street Trust at 122 Trouble St; and a declaration of homestead filed at 32 Lyman Flat Rd by Ryan Jeffrey Rida and Marjorie M. Rida. None of these three involved a transfer of ownership to a new buyer.

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.