Plainfield Sees No New Sale Prices Despite Nine Recorded Deed Filings

PLAINFIELD -- Nine documents were recorded at the Hampshire County Registry of Deeds affecting Plainfield properties between Sept. 18 and Oct. 17, but only four represent actual property transfers, and none carried a sale price in the data as of this report.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded nine documents touching Plainfield properties during the period, but only four reflect a change of ownership through sale or estate distribution: 80 River Road, 248 South Central Street, 234 South Central Street and 37 West Hill Road. The remaining five entries are administrative filings rather than sales: two separate estate tax documents tied to 334 South Central Street, and declarations of homestead at 24 South Union Street, 296 Main Street and 208 West Hill Road. None of the four identified property transfers has a sale price available in the registry data yet, so a price range and median cannot be calculated this period.

TOP SALES No sale prices were available for any transaction recorded in this period, so transfers cannot be ranked by price. The four identified property transfers were: 80 River Road, transferred Oct. 14 from Joseph Henderson and Joseph Mara to Greenfield Savings Bank; 248 South Central Street, transferred Oct. 6 from TruNorth Bank to William L. Bundy and Paula C. Bundy; 234 South Central Street, transferred Oct. 1 from Freedom Credit Union to Matthew Ingellis and Payton Atwell; and 37 West Hill Road, transferred Oct. 2 from the estate of Susan C. Donoghue, with Deborah Slaven serving as personal representative, to Deborah Slaven and Lori Reese Deyo. Price not yet available for all four transfers. Beds, baths and square footage were not available in the deed data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN South Central Street saw the most recorded activity, with three documents during the period: the bank-to-buyer transfer at 248 South Central Street, the bank-to-buyer transfer at 234 South Central Street, and two linked estate tax filings tied to 334 South Central Street. West Hill Road had two entries: the estate transfer at 37 West Hill Road and a homestead declaration at 208 West Hill Road. The remaining documents, at 80 River Road, 24 South Union Street and 296 Main Street, were single entries on their respective streets.

MARKET NOTES Two of the four identified property transfers, at 248 and 234 South Central Street, involved financial institutions, TruNorth Bank and Freedom Credit Union, as sellers, indicating those properties had been bank-owned before being conveyed to individual buyers. One transfer, at 80 River Road, moved in the opposite direction, from individual owners, Joseph Henderson and Joseph Mara, to Greenfield Savings Bank. The transfer at 37 West Hill Road followed an estate settlement, with the personal representative also named among the buyers. Five of the nine recorded documents were homestead declarations or estate tax filings rather than property sales, a reminder that not every registry entry reflects market activity. No sale prices were available for any of the four identified transfers as of this report; prices for actual sales typically appear in registry data within about a week of recording.

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.