Easthampton Sees Just One Disclosed Home Price Amid Lien Filing Wave

EASTHAMPTON -- Of the 14 documents Hampshire County Registry of Deeds recorded for Easthampton properties between July 24 and Aug. 22, only two represented an actual transfer of property ownership. The rest were estate tax lien releases and an easement filing, not sales.

MARKET OVERVIEW Two property transfers were recorded in the period. One was a sale: 2 Little St. sold for $70,000 on July 27. The other was a transfer among family members at 26 Ashley Circle, recorded July 24, with no price disclosed. The remaining 12 filings were not transfers of ownership: 11 were certificates releasing Massachusetts estate tax liens on properties tied to the estate of Bernard P. Gawle, and one was a solar easement agreement at 5 Nichols Way in Pineview Estates. With only one disclosed sale price in the period, the data cannot support a price range or median, and offers too little basis to characterize the broader market as active or quiet.

TOP SALES 2 Little St. sold for $70,000 on July 27, recorded from seller Michael S. Sargent to buyer UMassFive College Federal Credit Union. It is the only transaction in the period with a disclosed price. 26 Ashley Circle transferred July 24 with price not disclosed; the deed lists sellers Gail M. Canon and Kira A. Goodman and buyers Kira A. Goodman and Colby Canon, a transfer within the same family.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The two actual transfers occurred on different streets, Little Street and Ashley Circle, too few to establish a geographic pattern. The bulk of this period's filings, the estate tax lien releases, touched addresses across several streets but did not involve a change of ownership, so they are not included in a sales-based breakdown.

MARKET NOTES Eleven certificates releasing Massachusetts estate tax liens were recorded July 27, all naming Bernard P. Gawle as the party on record, covering properties on South Street (two addresses), Ward Avenue (two addresses), Loudville Road, Main Street, Lawndale Street (three addresses), Mountainview Street, and one filing with no street address listed. These releases clear a tax lien on record; they do not indicate a sale or transfer of the properties. A solar easement agreement was also recorded July 27 at 5 Nichols Way, Pineview Estates Unit 5, involving Pineview Development LLC as trustee and the Pineview Estates Condominium Trust; this, too, is not a sale. Because only two actual property transfers were recorded, this period's data does not support conclusions about property type mix or per-square-foot pricing.

Recorded Deeds

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

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