Two Disclosed Cummington Sales Span $40,000 To $89,215 In July

CUMMINGTON -- Hampshire County Registry of Deeds records show 13 property-related filings in Cummington over the past month, but only two included a disclosed sale price, limiting how much can be said about the local market's direction this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 13 property-related transfers in Cummington from June 26 through July 25. Of those, only two filings included a disclosed consideration amount: $40,000 and $89,215. Based on those two figures, the median is $64,607. The remaining 11 filings — including three Declarations of Homestead, an easement agreement, a conservation restriction, and several transfers between family members or into family trusts — carried no price, which is typical for those types of recorded instruments. Because price data covers only two of 13 filings, the raw count of 13 is the only volume figure this data set supports; there is no prior-period figure here for comparison, so the month cannot be characterized as active or quiet beyond that count.

TOP SALES 19 Beechwood Rd sold for $89,215 on July 15, the higher of the two disclosed prices. Sellers Corey Delisle and Verna M. Ridel transferred the property to the town of Chesterfield.

77 Shaw Rd sold for $40,000 on July 17. Seller Maureen A. Lavigne transferred the property to Florence Bank.

No other filing recorded this period disclosed a sale price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Bryant Road saw two filings: 33 Bryant Rd, transferred from Florence Bank to Stephen Young on July 23, price not disclosed; and 216 Bryant Rd, where Dylan G. Kenseth is listed as grantor on a Declaration of Homestead recorded July 3, also without a price.

A Fairground(s) Road address also saw two filings recorded the same day, July 2, under slightly different street spellings — "60 Fairgrounds Rd" and "60 Fairground Rd." One is a Declaration of Homestead; the other transfers the property from Peter J. and Betty L. Tessier to themselves as trustees of a family trust. Neither carried a disclosed price.

The remaining nine filings each involve a distinct street — Luther Shaw Road, Shaw Road, Stage Road, Beechwood Road, Porter Hill Road, Main Street, Powell Road, Brown Avenue and Mount Road — with no other street-name overlaps this period.

MARKET NOTES Five of the 13 filings involved a bank as grantor or grantee: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. (MERS) was seller on both 8 Luther Shaw Rd and 8 Brown Ave; Florence Bank appears as both seller (33 Bryant Rd) and buyer (77 Shaw Rd); and BankESB was seller on 200 Stage Rd. None of these five disclosed a price.

Two filings were transfers within the same family into or out of a trust: 47 Main St, where Lyle Hazel and Janeen Romey, as trustees, transferred the property to Lyle Hazel and Lyle M. Hazel individually; and the 60 Fairground(s) Rd trust transfer noted above.

Three filings were Declarations of Homestead (20 Porter Hill Rd, 216 Bryant Rd, 60 Fairgrounds Rd), one was an easement agreement (110 Powell Rd), and one was a conservation restriction (75 Mount Rd) — instruments that are not property sales. No bed, bath or square-footage data was available in any filing 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

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.