Hancock's Two Disclosed Home Sales Span $165,000 To $375,000

HANCOCK -- Nine property transfers were recorded in Hancock between June 26 and July 25, according to Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds records, but sale prices were disclosed in only two of them.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded nine deed transfers in Hancock during the period. Of those, two listed a sale price: $165,000 and $375,000, producing a price range of $165,000 to $375,000 and a median of $270,000. The remaining seven transfers did not disclose a consideration amount, which is common in deed records and does not necessarily indicate the properties changed hands without payment. Nine recorded transfers is a notable number of instruments for a town of Hancock's small size, though the dataset does not include figures from prior periods for comparison, so the pace cannot be characterized as faster or slower than usual.

TOP SALES

The highest-priced transaction was 6 Lebanon Springs Rd, which sold for $375,000 on June 29. The sellers were listed as Elizabeth K. Weeks and Jeffrey M. Weeks; no buyer was listed on this instrument. The second-highest, and only other disclosed sale, was 37 Corey Rd, which sold for $165,000 on June 29. The sellers were Kevin D. Foote and Nancy L. Foote, both listed as trustees, and the buyer was Duke Homes LLC. No other transactions in the dataset listed a sale price, so no further ranking is possible.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Two street addresses had multiple deeds recorded during the period. Lebanon Springs Road: 6 Lebanon Springs Rd appears twice, once as the $375,000 sale from Elizabeth K. Weeks and Jeffrey M. Weeks recorded June 29, and again in a second instrument recorded the same day listing Jeffrey M. Weeks and Elizabeth K. Weeks as sellers with no price disclosed and no buyer listed. Corey Road: 37 Corey Rd also appears twice on June 29 -- the $165,000 sale to Duke Homes LLC, and a separate instrument listing the Kevin D. Foote Revocable Trust and Kevin D. Foote as trustee as sellers, with no price or buyer listed. By price tier, both disclosed sales fell under $500,000. The remaining seven transfers -- at an unaddressed Hancock parcel, 276 Brodie Mountain Rd, 2832 Hancock Rd, 65 Main St, and 125 Country Inn, plus the second instruments at Lebanon Springs and Corey roads -- carried no disclosed price and cannot be sorted into a tier.

MARKET NOTES

Several transfers in the dataset appear to be trust or family-related conveyances rather than open-market sales, based on matching seller and buyer names sharing a surname or trust designation. A Hancock property with no listed street address transferred from Russell N. Dietz and Patricia E. Yalden to Jonathan P. Dietz and Victoria Regina Dietz on July 1. At 125 Country Inn, the sellers were listed as Kevin Foote and Nancy Foote, both as trustees, with no buyer named. The Corey Road and Lebanon Springs Road properties each show a Foote or Weeks family member as seller on both recorded instruments for that address, consistent with a multi-step or intra-family transfer, though the deed data does not indicate the reason for either transaction. Buyers in the dataset also included non-individual entities: Vacation Village in the Berkshires Owners Association Inc. acquired 276 Brodie Mountain Rd from Patricia A. Harrington and Patricia A. Boisvert, and Christiansen House LLC acquired 65 Main St from Clayton C. Harrington and Brenda B. Harrington. At 2832 Hancock Rd, the seller was listed as Greylock Federal Credit Union and the buyer as Mark A. Gaskill; the deed reference cites an associated mortgage book and page. No bed, bath or square-footage data is available in deed records, and the dataset does not specify whether individual properties are single-family homes, condominiums or multi-family units, so no property-type breakdown can be reported.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 29 - Jul 5

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