South Hadley's Lone Disclosed Sale Tops $725,000 Amid Mostly Undisclosed Deed Activity

SOUTH HADLEY -- The Hampshire County Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transactions in South Hadley between June 19 and July 18, but only one of them disclosed a sale price, leaving most of the period's market activity undocumented in dollar terms.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 12 transactions in South Hadley during the period. Of those, only one — 41 Ashton Lane — listed a sale price: $725,000. Because just one of 12 recorded transfers carried a disclosed price, that figure serves as both the low and high end of the disclosed-price sample, and as the median. The raw count of 12 recorded transactions falls within a typical range for the registry, but with disclosed pricing available for only one transfer, the period cannot be characterized as active or quiet based on price data alone.

TOP SALES 41 Ashton Lane sold for $725,000 on June 22. The N Janeen Resnick Family Trust and Mitchell B Resnick Family Trust sold the property to Mary De Voe and Jay Sachs. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available in deed records. No other transaction recorded in the period disclosed a sale price, so no additional top sales can be ranked by price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN With only one disclosed sale price, no price-tier breakdown is possible. By street, no address recorded more than one transaction during the period. Recorded properties spanned Ferry Street, Ashton Lane, Kimberly Drive, Sunset Avenue, Granby Road, Pittroff Avenue, East Street, River Road, Old Lyman Road, Shadowbrook Estate and San Souci Drive, with no clustering by street or neighborhood evident in the data.

MARKET NOTES Several of the 12 recorded transactions involved financial institutions rather than individual buyers and sellers on both sides of the deed. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. (MERS) appears as a seller in one transaction (19 Ferry St.) and as a buyer in another (86 Sunset Ave.). Bank of America NA, Fleet National Bank, Capital One NA, Discover Bank, Citizens Bank NA, Operative Bank and PeoplesBank each appear as grantors in separate transfers. Individual buyers named in bank-originated transfers include Ronald R. and Jacquelyn L. Barthelette (26 Kimberly Drive), Alicja Reynolds and Anthony W. Reynolds Jr. (38 River Road), and Melissa A. Baker (36 Shadowbrook Estate); none of these transactions disclosed a price.

Not all 12 recorded entries reflect property sales. The dataset also includes an affidavit (136 Granby Road), a declaration of homestead (40 Pittroff Avenue), a decision regarding a special permit (136 East Street), a discharge of assignment of rents (160 Old Lyman Road), and a certificate of compliance with ongoing conditions (58 San Souci Drive) — administrative filings rather than buyer-to-seller transfers. One additional entry recorded a conveyance to the town of South Hadley from Kristin M. Phelan and Danica M. Belber; no street address was listed for that transfer. No square-footage or property-type data was available for any recorded transaction, so no price-per-square-foot or property-type comparisons can be made this period.

Recorded Deeds

Source: Registry of Deeds. Sale amounts shown as recorded; transfers without a disclosed consideration are noted as such.

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.