Middlefield Deed Data Shows Few Confirmed Home Sale Prices This Month

MIDDLEFIELD -- The Hampshire County Registry of Deeds recorded seven transactions tied to Middlefield addresses between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19, but only two carried a dollar figure, and one of those reflects mortgage financing rather than a home changing hands.

MARKET OVERVIEW Seven deed transactions were recorded in Middlefield during the period. Two of the seven list a price: $16,007 and $377,492, the range for the period. The dataset's calculated median across the period is $196,749. Five of the seven recordings have no price yet; that is typical, since sale prices generally reach the registry's data within about a week of recording. With only two dollar figures available, and one of them tied to mortgage-company parties rather than an individual buyer, the raw price range and median offer limited insight into current sale activity for the period.

TOP SALES Only two entries in the dataset carry a price. 6 Johnny Cake Hill Road recorded a transaction Sept. 10 listing $377,492. The grantors were Daniel B. Bergeron and Sharon R. Bergeron; the grantees were Mutual of Omaha Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. Because the grantees are mortgage-industry entities rather than individual buyers, this recording reflects financing secured against the property, not a purchase. A related recording at 6 Johnnycake Hill Road on Sept. 8, releasing Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.'s prior interest back to the Bergerons, carries no price.

0 West Hill Road recorded a transaction Sept. 2 at $16,007. Alana Kalehua was the grantor and Legacy Land Co. LLC the grantee. The "0" street number indicates a vacant land parcel rather than a house. This is the only entry in the dataset that reflects a conventional sale, from an individual to an unrelated buyer, with a price attached.

No other transactions in the seven-entry dataset have a recorded price yet.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Johnny Cake Hill Road and Johnnycake Hill Road (the dataset uses both spellings): two recordings tied to the same property within two days of each other, Sept. 8 and Sept. 10, both involving the Bergerons and mortgage-industry entities.

Clark Wright Road: one recording, transferring the property from Diamond Kongoletos and Nancy Kongoletos to Diamond Kongoletos and Nancy Kongoletos as trustees, keeping the property within the same family.

Chipman Road, Arthur Pease Road and West Hill Road: one recording each, with no shared street or price-tier pattern among them.

Beyond the Johnny Cake Hill Road repeat, no geographic cluster is evident, and the small sample size, combined with the share of non-purchase recordings, limits any price-tier breakdown for the period.

MARKET NOTES Of the seven recordings, only 0 West Hill Road reflects a straightforward sale, from an individual seller to an unrelated buyer, with a price available now. The Johnny Cake Hill Road and Johnnycake Hill Road pair involves mortgage-industry entities, Mutual of Omaha Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., rather than a change in ownership. The Clark Wright Road recording moves the property from Diamond Kongoletos and Nancy Kongoletos individually to the same two people as trustees. The Arthur Pease Road recording lists "Declaration of Homestead" as grantee, a legal filing rather than a change of ownership, with Elizabeth W. Tanzer, individually and as trustee, as grantor. The Chipman Road recording lists Westfield Bank as grantor, with Barry E. Bernard and Meghan J. Bernard as grantees. The recording with no listed street address transfers the property from Skyline Water Works Inc. to Skyline Historic Waterworks Inc. Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures were not available from the deed records for any property in this period. Given the small sample and the share of recordings that are not conventional purchases, no property-type mix or price-per-square-foot pattern can be drawn from this period's data.

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.