Cherry Street sale at $435,000 anchors wide price range in North Adams deeds

NORTH ADAMS -- Seventeen property transfers were recorded at the Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds for North Adams between July 10 and August 8, led by a $435,000 sale on Cherry Street. Only six of the 17 recorded documents included a disclosed sale price.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 17 total transfers in the period. Among the six with a disclosed consideration amount, prices ranged from $40,000 to $435,000, with a median of $87,000. The remaining 11 records, including mortgage discharges, trustee certificates and related filings, did not list a sale price, which is standard for that type of document rather than an indication of market conditions. With just over a third of records disclosing a price, the available figures represent a partial picture of actual sale values for the period.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was 82 Cherry St., which sold for $435,000 on July 13. William D. Ackerson and Janice E. Thomas sold the property to Carlos Lluch and Elizabeth Ann Lluch, both listed as trustees. A related certificate of trustee for the same address, tied to the Elizabeth Ann Lluch Living Trust, was recorded the same day without a listed price.

505 Barbour St. sold for $185,000 on July 10. Claire Klammer sold the property to Adams Community Bank. Two additional filings for the same address, an "EX" record from seller Florence A. Lefebvre and a second deed-book record from Klammer, were recorded the same day without disclosed prices.

447 Notch Rd. sold for $124,000 on July 13. Robert Rybarczyk sold the property to Greylock Federal Credit Union. A related deed-book filing for the same address and seller was recorded the same day without a listed price.

7 Ivory St. sold for $50,000 on July 10. Kurtis R. Durocher and Heather A. Durocher sold the property to Adams Community Bank.

679 Ashland St. sold for $41,060 on July 14. Ronald Roy Obrien and Ronald R. Obrien sold the property to Amerisave Mortgage Corp. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Ashland Street had two separate addresses in the record set: 679 Ashland St., which sold for $41,060, and 209 Ashland St., a mortgage-related filing with no disclosed price. Three properties, 82 Cherry St., 505 Barbour St. and 447 Notch Rd., each generated more than one recorded document for the same address, reflecting related filings such as trustee certificates and secondary deed-book entries rather than separate sales. By price tier among the six disclosed sales, three fell under $100,000 (39 Walker St. at $40,000, 679 Ashland St. at $41,060, and 7 Ivory St. at $50,000), and three fell between $100,000 and $500,000 (447 Notch Rd. at $124,000, 505 Barbour St. at $185,000, and 82 Cherry St. at $435,000).

MARKET NOTES Eleven of the 17 recorded documents involved a bank, credit union or mortgage company as either grantor or grantee, including Greylock Federal Credit Union, Adams Community Bank, TD Bank N.A., Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., Amerisave Mortgage Corp., Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., Pennymac Loan Services LLC and FMC Lending Inc. That reflects a mix of sales, mortgage discharges and loan-servicing filings within the same deed dataset, rather than a single category of transaction. The Cherry Street sale involved a transfer to trustees followed by a same-day certificate of trustee for a living trust bearing one of the buyers' names, consistent with a within-family trust transfer. Deed records for the period did not include bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data, and property type, single-family, condominium or multi-family, was not specified in the dataset for any address.

Recorded Deeds

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

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