Just Two of 12 October Property Recordings in Florida Carry Disclosed Prices

FLORIDA -- Only two of the dozen property transactions recorded at the Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds for Florida in October carried a disclosed sale price, both for homes on Church Road, leaving most of the month's registry activity without pricing information so far.

MARKET OVERVIEW Twelve deed transactions were recorded for Florida between Oct. 2 and Oct. 31. Of those, two carried a disclosed sale price: $160,000 and $50,000, producing a median of $105,000. The remaining 10 entries include five mortgage recordings, two nominal-consideration transfers between family members, a notice of contract, and two property transfers for which a sale price was not yet available in the registry. With only two priced transactions, the raw count of 12 filings does not, by itself, support a characterization of the month as active or quiet; it simply reflects the total volume of registry activity logged for the period.

TOP SALES 64 Church Road sold for $160,000 on Oct. 28. The seller was June O. Speed; the buyer was Adams Community Bank. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed record. 137 Church Road sold for $50,000 on Oct. 20. The sellers were Robert Barrett and Kaitlin E. Barrett; the buyer was Adams Community Bank. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed record. No other transactions in the October dataset carried a disclosed sale price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Church Road accounted for four of the 12 recordings during the month: three entries tied to 64 Church Road and one tied to 137 Church Road. Adams Community Bank was named as buyer in both of the month's priced transactions, both on Church Road. Tilda Hill Road also appeared twice, with a mortgage recording at 35 Tilda Hill Road and a notice of contract at 42 Tilda Hill Road; neither carried a disclosed sale price. The two priced sales, $160,000 and $50,000, both fall under the $500,000 tier; no transactions in the dataset reached above that threshold.

MARKET NOTES Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available for any property in this month's data, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made. The October recordings were a mix of document types beyond conventional sales: five of the 12 entries were mortgage filings (noted by "MTG" references to book and page numbers), one was a notice of contract, and two were nominal-consideration transfers of under $10,000 between Jeremy K. Dodge and Rebecca J. Dodge, who share a surname, covering a Florida property and 18 Blackstone Road. Those nominal-consideration transfers are not counted as market sales. One entry, at 219 Central Shaft Road, listed Daryl Rougeau and Daryl J. Rougeau as sellers and Sungage Financial LLC as buyer, with no price yet available. Because 10 of the 12 October recordings lack a disclosed price, broader conclusions about the month's price trend in Florida cannot be drawn from this dataset alone.

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.