Two $25,000 bank transfers anchor a mostly price-undisclosed July in Chesterfield

CHESTERFIELD -- Hampshire County Registry of Deeds recorded 11 property transfers in Chesterfield between June 26 and July 25, but only three carried a disclosed sale price, ranging from $25,000 to $160,000. Eight of the 11 recordings were not traditional buyer-to-buyer sales at all, but administrative filings such as tax liens, estate documents and a homestead declaration.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Of the 11 recorded transactions, three included a disclosed consideration amount: $25,000, $25,000 and $160,000. The median of those three disclosed sales is $25,000. With only 3 of 11 entries showing a price, the raw count of 11 recordings is not a reliable signal of buying and selling activity in Chesterfield this period — most of what the registry logged were bank transfers and administrative filings rather than open-market sales with disclosed prices.

TOP SALES

59 Cummington Rd sold for $160,000 on July 20. The seller was listed as Jesse T. McMillan and Jessica L. McMillan; the buyer was Freedom Credit Union. Beds, baths and square footage were not available in deed records.

48 Mount Rd and 8 Antin Rd each recorded a $25,000 sale price. At 48 Mount Rd, sellers Robert J. Germain and Sarah A. Germain transferred the property to Greenfield Savings Bank on July 20. At 8 Antin Rd, seller Deborah Ginger Dubois transferred the property to Greenfield Savings Bank on July 6. In both cases, the buyer was a lending institution rather than an individual homebuyer, based on the grantee named in the deed.

The remaining eight recorded transfers in the period had no sale price disclosed in county records, so they cannot be ranked among top sales by price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

No two recorded transfers in this period shared a street name; the 11 recordings span Cummington Road, Mount Road, Ireland Street, East Street, Old Chesterfield Road, Antin Road, Damon Pond Road, Indian Hollow Road, Munson Road, Bryant Street and Sugar Hill Road. By price tier, all three disclosed-price transactions fell under $500,000, including two at $25,000 (48 Mount Rd and 8 Antin Rd) and one at $160,000 (59 Cummington Rd). The remaining eight transactions — at 195 Ireland St, 159 East St, 92 Old Chesterfield Rd, 53 Damon Pond Rd, 25 Indian Hollow Rd, 43 Munson Rd, 87 Bryant St and 211 Sugar Hill Rd — had no price disclosed.

MARKET NOTES

The 11 recordings in this period were a mix of transaction types rather than uniformly conventional home sales. Two were transfers from individual sellers to Greenfield Savings Bank (48 Mount Rd, 8 Antin Rd) and one was a transfer from Jesse T. and Jessica L. McMillan to Freedom Credit Union (59 Cummington Rd), with the buyer named as a financial institution in each case. One recording, at 195 Ireland St, moved the property from John D. and Diane A. Cennamo to a trust in both of their names, a within-family trust transfer. Four recordings were administrative filings rather than sales to a new owner: a declaration of homestead at 92 Old Chesterfield Rd, an affidavit regarding estate tax at 53 Damon Pond Rd (filed by a personal representative for the Peter Bradford Banister estate), an agricultural or horticultural land tax lien at 25 Indian Hollow Rd, and an acknowledgment of transfer of real property at 211 Sugar Hill Rd. Only two recordings — 43 Munson Rd (JPMorgan Chase Bank to Timothy J. and Charlotte M. Dugan) and 87 Bryant St (Richard H. and Margaret E. Ladd to Maya Greene) — read as conventional transfers between a seller and an unrelated buyer without a disclosed price. Beds, baths and square footage were not available for any property in this dataset, so no price-per-square-foot comparison could be made.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

Jul 13 - Jul 19

Jul 20 - Jul 26

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