Middlefield Home Sales Show Wide Price Range From $65,000 to $315,000

MIDDLEFIELD -- Six property transfers were recorded in Middlefield's deeds during the past month, but only half carried a sale price at the time records were pulled, leaving the full scope of October's market incomplete for now.

MARKET OVERVIEW Six sales were recorded between Sept. 25 and Oct. 24. Of those, three carried a recorded sale price, ranging from $65,000 to $315,000, with a median of $100,000 among the priced transactions. The other three sales had no price listed, which typically reflects a lag of about a week before the registry updates its records rather than any withholding of information. Based on the raw count alone, six transfers in a month is a typical volume for a small town like Middlefield, though the sample is too small to characterize the market as particularly active or quiet.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was 95 Town Hill Rd, which sold for $315,000. The seller was listed as Pieter Loots and Beatriz Sternberg, and the buyer was Embrace Home Loans Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. The second-highest sale was 90 E River Rd at $100,000, sold by Scott R. Churchill and Michele L. Churchill to Pentagon Federal Credit Union. The third priced sale was a property listed only as "Middlefield, MA" that sold for $65,000; the seller was Michael M. Peros, acting as personal representative of the John Peter Peros estate, and the buyers were Dennis P. Segatti and Sandra Anne Segatti. Beds, baths and square footage were not available from the deed records for any of these transactions.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Three of the six recorded transfers involved addresses on or near River Road: 30 River Rd, 43 River Rd Unit A and 90 E River Rd. Of those, only 90 E River Rd carried a recorded price. The remaining transfers were at 158 Skyline Trail and 95 Town Hill Rd, plus the estate sale with no specific street address listed. By price tier, all three sales with recorded prices fell under $500,000; no sales above that threshold were recorded this period.

MARKET NOTES Two of the three priced transfers list financial institutions, Pentagon Federal Credit Union and Embrace Home Loans Inc./Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., as the buyer rather than an individual. One transfer, at 30 River Rd, lists "Declaration of Homestead" as the buyer with no price recorded; this reflects a homestead declaration filed with the registry rather than a traditional purchase. The 43 River Rd Unit A transfer lists the town of Middlefield as the buyer, with the seller identified as John P. Peros along with the unit designation itself; no price was recorded for this transfer. The estate sale at the unspecified Middlefield address, in which a personal representative of the John Peter Peros estate sold to Dennis P. and Sandra Anne Segatti, is an example of a within-family or estate-related transfer; no further detail on circumstances is available from the deed record. The mix of transfer types this period, estate sale, municipal acquisition, lender-related transactions and a homestead filing, makes direct comparison across sales limited.

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.