Only One Of Fifteen Amherst Sales Shows A Price So Far

AMHERST -- Hampshire County Registry of Deeds records show 15 property transactions recorded in Amherst between Sept. 25 and Oct. 24, but pricing information has posted for only one so far, leaving most of the period's market activity undocumented by dollar figures for now.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 15 transactions in the period. Of those, only one carries a sale price at this writing: $555,000. Because 14 of 15 entries are still awaiting price data, which the registry says typically posts within about a week of recording, the current reported price range and median are both $555,000, a reflection of the single available figure rather than the full market. Based on raw count alone, 15 recorded entries is a notable volume, though several of them are bank-related or administrative filings rather than conventional owner-to-owner sales, discussed below.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a posted price is 471 Flat Hills Road, which sold Sept. 28 for $555,000. The seller was listed as Margaret McClamroch, trustee of the Margaret McClamroch Declaration of Trust, and the buyer as Sandra K. Ames, with the transfer recorded as a life estate. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available in the deed record. The remaining 14 transactions recorded during the period, including properties on Strong Street, Harris Street, South Mount Holyoke Drive, Greenleaves Drive, Hitchcock Road, Dickinson Street, Amity Street, Pleasant Court, Merrill Science Drive, Ridgecrest Road, East Hadley Road, Plum Tree Road and Trillium Way, do not yet show sale prices in the registry data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street had more than one transaction recorded in this period, so no street-level clustering emerged. By price tier, the one sale with a confirmed price, 471 Flat Hills Road at $555,000, falls in the $500,000-to-$1 million range. The remaining 14 transactions cannot yet be sorted by tier because price data has not posted.

MARKET NOTES Several entries in this period list banks or credit unions as sellers rather than individual owners: UMassFive College Federal Credit Union appears as seller or related party in four separate filings (274 Strong St., 23 S. Mount Holyoke Drive, 24 Greenleaves Drive Unit 412, and 24 Ridgecrest Road), and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., PeoplesBank and TruNorth Bank each appear as sellers in additional filings. The deed data does not specify the nature of these transfers beyond the parties listed. The dataset also includes several entries that are not conventional sales: one buyer field reads "Order of Notice" (24 Greenleaves Drive Unit 412), another "Scriveners Affidavit" (280 Amity St.), another "Notice of Dissolution of Lien" (21 Merrill Science Drive), another "Decision Regarding Special Permit" tied to a zoning appeals matter, and another simply "Rents" (24 Dickinson St.). These appear to be legal or administrative filings recorded alongside property records rather than standard buyer-seller transactions, based on the information provided. The property mix in the period includes at least two condominium units, at 24 Greenleaves Drive Unit 412 and 170 East Hadley Road Unit 55, alongside single-family addresses. No square-footage data was available for any listing, so price-per-square-foot comparisons are not possible this period.

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.