Middlefield Deed Prices Range Widely as Most September Sales Stay Undisclosed

MIDDLEFIELD -- Seven property transactions were recorded at the Hampshire County Registry of Deeds for Middlefield between Aug. 14 and Sept. 12, but only two carried a disclosed sale price, leaving most of the period's activity difficult to size up in dollar terms.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded seven transactions in the period. Of those, two disclosed a sale price, ranging from $16,007 to $377,492, with a median of $196,749 based on those two figures. The remaining five transactions, more than half the total, were recorded without a disclosed consideration amount, which is common for trust transfers, homestead filings and mortgage-related registrations. With price data available for only two of seven transactions, the raw count of seven recorded deeds is the most reliable measure of activity this period; overall pricing trends cannot be established from this dataset alone.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was 6 Johnny Cake Hill Road, which sold for $377,492 on Sept. 10. The sellers were Daniel B. Bergeron and Sharon R. Bergeron; the buyers were Mutual of Omaha Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. The second disclosed price was 0 West Hill Road, an unaddressed parcel that sold for $16,007 on Sept. 2. The seller was Alana Kalehua; the buyer was Legacy Land Co LLC. The remaining five recorded transactions, at 85 Chipman Road, 6 Arthur Pease Road, an unaddressed Middlefield parcel, 0 Clark Wright Road and 6 Johnnycake Hill Road, carried no disclosed price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Two entries in this period's data reference the same street under slightly different spellings: 6 Johnny Cake Hill Road, the $377,492 transaction to Mutual of Omaha Mortgage Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. on Sept. 10, and 6 Johnnycake Hill Road, recorded Sept. 8, in which Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and MERS transferred the property back to Daniel B. and Sharon R. Bergeron. The shared address and overlapping parties indicate these two filings are linked records on the same property rather than two separate sales. By price tier, both disclosed sale amounts, $377,492 and $16,007, fall under $500,000. No transaction in this period disclosed a price above $500,000. The remaining addresses, 85 Chipman Road, 6 Arthur Pease Road, 0 Clark Wright Road and an unaddressed parcel, each appear once in the dataset with no shared street pattern.

MARKET NOTES Bed, bath and square-footage figures are not available in deed records and are omitted here. Several of this period's filings are not conventional third-party purchases. At 6 Arthur Pease Road, Elizabeth W. Tanzer, individually and as trustee, is listed as grantor on a Declaration of Homestead rather than a transfer to a new owner. At 0 Clark Wright Road, Diamond and Nancy Kongoletos transferred the property to Diamond Kongoletos and Nancy Kongoletos as trustees, a within-family trust transfer. The unaddressed Middlefield parcel changed hands between two related corporate names, Skyline Water Works Inc. and Skyline Historic Waterworks Inc. At 85 Chipman Road, the seller of record was Westfield Bank, with Barry E. and Meghan J. Bernard as buyers; no price was disclosed. Combined with the paired Johnny Cake Hill Road filings, four of the seven recorded transactions this period involve trusts, homesteads, related corporate entities or mortgage-registration parties rather than a disclosed-price sale between unrelated individual buyers and sellers.

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.