Sole Disclosed Sale Price in Middlefield Comes in at $195,800 for July

MIDDLEFIELD -- Six property transfers were recorded in Middlefield's Hampshire County Registry of Deeds records between June 26 and July 25, but only one of the six disclosed a sale price, limiting what the month's filings show about the local market.

MARKET OVERVIEW Six deeds were recorded in Middlefield during the period. Of those, one listed a consideration amount: $195,800 for a property on East River Road. The remaining five transactions did not include a disclosed sale price, which is common for certain deed types, including foreclosure-related transfers, homestead filings, and transfers between family members or related entities. Because only one of six transactions carries a price, a meaningful range or median cannot be calculated across the full set of filings. Based on raw count alone, six recorded transfers is a modest but unremarkable volume for a small town over a one-month span.

TOP SALES 191 East River Road sold for $195,800, recorded July 22. The seller was listed as Begin Your Stay LLC, and the buyers were Verus Residential Loanco LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. This is the only transaction in the period with a disclosed price.

The other five recorded transfers did not include a sale price. On July 24, a Declaration of Homestead was recorded at 9 Alderman Road, with Nathan Myers listed as the associated party. On July 23, Berkshire Bank transferred a property at 24 Chester Road to Jane M. Peirce. On July 22, the same day as the priced sale above, Ernest J. and Elizabeth A. Begin transferred 191 East River Road to Begin Your Stay LLC -- the entity that appears as seller in the priced transaction recorded the same day. On July 6, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. transferred 116 Skyline Trail to Daniel Cimini. On June 30, Joan Wright transferred 75 West Hill Road to Carl A. and Laura H. Lafreniere.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN East River Road accounted for two of the six recorded transfers, both dated July 22 and both tied to the same address: a transfer from the Begin family to Begin Your Stay LLC, followed by a recorded transaction involving that LLC, Verus Residential Loanco LLC, and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. No other street had more than one recorded transfer in this period. Alderman Road, Chester Road, Skyline Trail, and West Hill Road each had a single filing.

By price tier, the data shows one transaction under $500,000 ($195,800, East River Road) and five transactions with no disclosed price, making further tier breakdown by dollar amount not possible for most of the period's activity.

MARKET NOTES Three of the six recorded transfers involved a bank or mortgage-related entity as grantor or grantee: Berkshire Bank as seller on Chester Road, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as seller on Skyline Trail, and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. alongside Verus Residential Loanco LLC as buyer on East River Road. This suggests a portion of this month's recorded activity is tied to lending or loan-servicing transactions rather than conventional buyer-to-seller home sales. Deed records do not include property type, bed/bath counts, or square footage, so no comparison of price per square foot or housing type mix is possible from this data.

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 20 - Jul 26

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