Worthington Deed Filings Dominated by Lender Transfers in June, July 2026

WORTHINGTON -- Of the 11 deeds recorded in Worthington between June 6 and July 5, 2026, only a handful reflect standard property sales to individual buyers, with the majority of filings linked to mortgage assignments, refinance activity, lender transfers, and administrative recordings.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Eleven deeds were recorded in Worthington during the period, but only two carried disclosed consideration amounts: $200,000 and $125,000, producing a median of $162,500 across those two transactions. Nine of the 11 entries listed no sale price. Critically, several entries involve financial institutions as buyers or sellers — including Greylock Federal Credit Union, Wells Fargo Bank, Freedom Mortgage Corp., New American Funding, UMassFive College Federal Credit Union, and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. — indicating mortgage assignments, foreclosure-related transfers, or refinance recordings rather than open-market sales. One entry carried no street address and reflected an agricultural program waiver; another recorded a homestead declaration rather than a deed conveyance. Readers should interpret this period's data with caution: the raw count of 11 overstates market sales activity significantly.
• TOP SALES
• The highest disclosed price in the period was $200,000, paid by Donald Chase to Chester and Susan Kellogg for the parcel at 0 Huntington Road, recorded June 26. The "0" address designation indicates this is likely an unimproved land parcel rather than a residential structure. The only other disclosed price was $125,000 for 4 Capen St., recorded June 15, in a transaction where the buyer was Greylock Federal Credit Union and the seller was David M. Smedley; the involvement of a credit union as grantee suggests this may be a lender-related transfer rather than a conventional purchase.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• Huntington Road accounted for two recorded entries during the period: the $200,000 land sale at 0 Huntington Rd. and a price-not-disclosed transfer at 611 Huntington Rd., where Robert E. and Mary L. Bagg acquired the property from UMassFive College Federal Credit Union. No other street generated more than one entry. Remaining transfers were scattered across Kinne Brook Road, Scott Road, Brown Hill Road, West Street, Adams Road, River Road, Capen Street, and Starkweather Hill Road — a distribution typical of rural single-family inventory rather than any concentrated neighborhood activity.
• MARKET NOTES
• The dataset does not support meaningful price-per-square-foot analysis; no square footage figures are available from deed records. Of the transfers that can be identified by party type, at least five involve a bank, credit union, or mortgage servicer as buyer or seller, which is an unusually high proportion and likely reflects post-pandemic refinance normalization or isolated distress activity in Worthington's small housing stock. One transfer at 29 Brown Hill Rd. involved a revocable trust as seller, a pattern consistent with estate settlement or trust administration. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts appeared as a party in one agricultural-program filing with no associated street address, which is not a property sale and has been excluded from price calculations.