Ware's Top June Sale Hits $457,515 as Median Lands Near $127,000

WARE -- A Ware property sold for $457,515 in late June, the top recorded sale of the period, while more than half of the month's recorded deeds carried no disclosed price and several represented transfers to banks and credit unions rather than conventional purchases.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Hampshire County Registry of Deeds recorded 13 property transfers in Ware between June 26 and July 25. Of those, seven listed a disclosed sale price, ranging from $6,802 to $457,515, with a median of $126,806. The remaining six transfers -- including a homestead declaration, a lis pendens notice, and two trust transfers -- did not include consideration amounts, which is common for these instrument types. With fewer than half of the month's recorded deeds showing a price, the available sales data offers only a partial view of market activity in Ware during the period.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was a $457,515 sale recorded June 26, with a specific street address not listed in the deed; Rachael St Cyr sold the property to Country Bank for Savings. At 350 Monson Turnpike Road, Michael J. and Elaine M. Cygan sold to Luso Federal Credit Union for $156,400, recorded June 26. At 238 Monson Turnpike Road, Darrel M. and Jennifer Mulcahy sold to Monson Savings Bank for $153,000, recorded June 29. At 84 West Main Street, Sydney and Oxana Ocran sold to Guild Mortgage Co. LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. for $126,806, recorded June 26. At 20 Beaver Road, Melissa A. and Kelsey Whitham sold to BankESB for $100,000, recorded June 29.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Monson Turnpike Road accounted for two of the month's disclosed sales -- 238 Monson Turnpike Road ($153,000) and 350 Monson Turnpike Road ($156,400) -- both recorded within three days of each other. By price tier among the seven disclosed sales: two fell under $100,000 (136 Eagle Street at $6,802 and 59 Old Poor Farm Road at $50,000); four fell between $100,000 and $200,000 (20 Beaver Road, 84 West Main Street, 238 Monson Turnpike Road and 350 Monson Turnpike Road); and one exceeded $400,000, the June 26 sale with no listed street address. The six transfers without a disclosed price were spread across Chestnut Street, Church Street, North Street, Wildflower Drive, Glendale Circle and Dugan Road.

MARKET NOTES Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records and are omitted here. A notable pattern in the underlying data: six of the 13 recorded instruments list a bank or credit union as buyer -- Monson Savings Bank (twice, at 238 Monson Turnpike Road and 80 Dugan Road), BankESB, Country Bank for Savings, Luso Federal Credit Union, Guild Mortgage Co. LLC, and Spring EQ LLC -- consistent with deed activity that includes lender-related transfers rather than exclusively buyer-to-seller purchases. Three of the 13 recorded instruments were not property sales in the conventional sense: a declaration of homestead at 6 Chestnut Street, a memorandum of lis pendens at 51 Church Street, and a trust transfer at 164 North Street in which Rachael St Cyr conveyed the property to herself and Heather A. Malin as trustees. A separate transfer at 124 Glendale Circle moved from Corby A. Wright alone to Corby A. Wright and Michelle A. Drumm jointly, also without a disclosed price. These patterns reflect the mix of instrument types the registry records, not necessarily arm's-length home sales, and should be read as part of the full picture of recorded activity rather than as market transactions alone.

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

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