Lone Priced Sale in Middlefield Closes at $315,000 This Month

MIDDLEFIELD -- Hampshire County Registry of Deeds records show three property transfers in Middlefield between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, but only one carried a recorded sale price by the time this report was compiled.

MARKET OVERVIEW Three sales were recorded in the period. Of those, one, the Sept. 24 recording for 95 Town Hill Rd., lists a consideration amount: $315,000. Price not yet available for the other two. With only one priced transaction, the price range and median sale price both stand at $315,000; a meaningful range and median will require additional data to post to the registry, which typically happens within about a week of recording. Three recorded transfers is a low count for the month in a small town like Middlefield, though the raw number alone does not indicate whether buyer or seller conditions favored either side.

TOP SALES 95 Town Hill Rd. sold for $315,000, recorded Oct. 9. The seller was listed as Pieter Loots and Beatriz Sternberg; the buyer was listed as Embrace Home Loans Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. Bed, bath and square footage figures are not available from deed records.

185 East River Rd. was recorded Sept. 24 with a sale from PeoplesBank to Susan E. Schneller. Price not yet available.

259 Skyline Trail was recorded Sept. 22 with a transfer from Derek Gallo to Deane Gallo and Donna Slozak. Price not yet available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The three recorded transfers were spread across three different streets, Town Hill Road, East River Road and Skyline Trail, with no overlap. By price tier: one transaction, the Town Hill Road sale, falls in the under-$500,000 range. The other two have no recorded price and cannot yet be sorted into a tier.

MARKET NOTES Two of the three recorded transfers involved parties other than individual buyers and sellers on both sides. The Town Hill Road transfer listed Embrace Home Loans Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as grantee, and the East River Road transfer listed PeoplesBank as grantor. The Skyline Trail transfer listed Derek Gallo as grantor and Deane Gallo as a co-grantee, parties who share a surname, consistent with a transfer within the same family. No square footage data was available for any of the three properties, so no price-per-square-foot comparison can be made this month. Property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family) is not specified in the deed records provided.

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.