Only One of Eight Recorded Pelham Property Filings Discloses a Sale Price

PELHAM -- Hampshire County's Registry of Deeds recorded eight property-related documents tied to Pelham addresses between July 10 and Aug. 8, but only one carried a disclosed sale price, limiting what the data can show about current market values in town.

MARKET OVERVIEW Eight documents were recorded for Pelham properties during the period. Only one, the July 21 transfer of 19 South Valley Road, listed a sale price: $60,000. With just one of eight transactions disclosing a price, the recorded range and median both sit at $60,000, a figure that reflects that single transaction rather than the broader market. The raw count of eight recorded documents in a four-week span does not by itself indicate whether the period was active or quiet; no comparable prior-period count was provided to judge against, and the near-total absence of price data further limits any assessment of market conditions.

TOP SALES 19 South Valley Road sold July 21 for $60,000, the only transaction in the period with a disclosed price. Florence Bank acquired the property from Alisa C. Pearson and Geoffrey S. Hudson.

38 South Valley Road changed hands Aug. 6; price not disclosed. UMassFive College Federal Credit Union transferred the property to Judy W. Lizardi and Judy Thornton.

22 Jones Road sold Aug. 4; price not disclosed. Coastal Sunset Capital LLC transferred the property to Gregory Russell.

298 North Valley Road sold July 28; price not disclosed. Florence Bank transferred the property to Alayne Couper and William R. Littlefield.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Valley Road corridor: Three of the eight recorded documents involved addresses on South Valley Road or North Valley Road, 38 South Valley Road, 19 South Valley Road and 298 North Valley Road, the largest street-level cluster in the period.

Harkness Road: Two properties on Harkness Road, 35 and 40, were both recorded July 24, each as a homestead declaration rather than a transfer to a new owner. At 35 Harkness Road, the filing was recorded by Robert Horowitz and Catherine A. Nagel, both listed as trustees. At 40 Harkness Road, it was recorded by Jeffrey L. Kahn, listed both as trustee and individually.

Single filings: One document each was recorded for Daniel Shays Highway and Arnold Road. With price data absent from all but one record, a price-tier breakdown is not meaningful for this period.

MARKET NOTES Of the eight recorded documents, four were property transfers with a named buyer and seller: 38 South Valley Road, 22 Jones Road, 298 North Valley Road and 19 South Valley Road. The remaining four were recorded as other document types: homestead declarations at 35 Harkness Road and 40 Harkness Road, a decision regarding a variance at 47 Arnold Road naming the Pelham Zoning Board of Appeals and Team Sunshine Construction LLC, and a filing at 87 Daniel Shays Highway naming Arleen J. Herlihy and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. with no buyer listed in the record.

Florence Bank appears on both sides of the ledger in the period: as buyer of 19 South Valley Road and as seller of 298 North Valley Road. No bed, bath or square-footage data was available from the deed records, and no property-type designations (single-family, condominium, multi-family) were included in the 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.