Few Sale Prices Recorded In Latest Round Of Williamsburg Property Deeds

WILLIAMSBURG -- Nine deed-related filings were recorded in Williamsburg between Sept. 25 and Oct. 24, but only two carried a sale price in the registry data, led by a $310,000 transfer on Nash Hill Road.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Hampshire County Registry of Deeds recorded nine property-related filings in Williamsburg during the period. Of those, six represent a conveyance of property from one party to another; the remaining three are a declaration of homestead or a certificate of compliance rather than a sale between a buyer and seller. Only two of the nine filings include a recorded sale price: $38,000 and $310,000, producing a price range of $38,000 to $310,000 and a median of $174,000 across those two figures. Because seven of the nine filings have no recorded price yet, typically because pricing data has not reached the registry, the raw count of nine does not by itself indicate whether the period was more or less active than usual.

TOP SALES 18 Nash Hill Rd sold for $310,000 on Sept. 29. The sellers were William P. Rohan Jr. and Christopher J. Rohan; the buyer was Virginia Rohan Hall. Beds, baths and square footage were not available in the deed record.

18 Williams St sold for $38,000 on Oct. 2. The seller was Courteny R. Morehouse; the buyer was UMassFive College Federal Credit Union. Beds, baths and square footage were not available.

The remaining seven recorded transfers, at 2 North St, 7 Depot Rd, 6 Nash Hill Rd, 3 North St, 9 Goshen Rd, 39 Briar Hill Rd and 63 Adams Rd, do not yet have a recorded sale price in the dataset.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN North Street had two filings: 2 North St, a transfer from Rachel Goodenow to the Rachel Eleanor Goodenow Trust, and 3 North St, a transfer from Florence Bank to Neal G. Anderson and Sara R. Wein. Neither has a recorded price.

Nash Hill Road also had two filings: 6 Nash Hill Rd, a declaration of homestead filed by Tobias Nitschke and Gretchen Roberts, and 18 Nash Hill Rd, the period's only sale with a recorded price above $200,000.

The remaining filings, at Depot Road, Goshen Road, Briar Hill Road, Williams Street and Adams Road, each appear once in the dataset, with no shared-street pattern.

MARKET NOTES Three of the nine filings were not property sales in the conventional sense: 6 Nash Hill Rd and 63 Adams Rd were declarations of homestead filed by the current owners, and 9 Goshen Rd was a certificate of compliance involving Jeffrey Ovitt and the Williamsburg Town Conservation Commission. These filings do not carry a sale price and should not be read as reflecting market value.

Two transfers appear to be within the same family: 2 North St moved from Rachel Goodenow to the Rachel Eleanor Goodenow Trust, and 7 Depot Rd moved from John Michael Burrell and Barbara J. Burrell to Amie Christine Burrell and Raven Burrell. At 18 Nash Hill Rd, the buyer, Virginia Rohan Hall, shares a surname with sellers William P. Rohan Jr. and Christopher J. Rohan, suggesting a possible family connection, though the data does not specify the relationship.

Two filings involved financial institutions as a party: 18 Williams St was conveyed to UMassFive College Federal Credit Union, and 3 North St was conveyed from Florence Bank to individual buyers. Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records for any property in this period, 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.

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