McKinley Street's $316,000 Sale Leads Wide Price Gap in Adams Deeds

ADAMS -- The Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transfers in Adams between July 3 and Aug. 1, but only three carried a disclosed sale price, led by a $316,000 sale on McKinley Street.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 12 property transfers in Adams during the period. Of those, three disclosed a sale price: $16,000, $25,000 and $316,000, for a full range of $16,000 to $316,000 and a median of $25,000. The remaining nine filings, including deeds, mortgage discharges and a UCC filing, did not disclose consideration amounts, which is common for certain deed record types. Based on the raw count alone, 12 recorded transfers over the four-week period represents a moderate volume of registry activity; the dataset does not include prior-month figures, so the period cannot be characterized as more or less active than usual beyond that count.

TOP SALES The period's highest-priced transaction was 8 McKinley St., which sold for $316,000 on July 7. The sellers were Ethan and Christina Johnston, and the buyer was Catherine Benson. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed record. The second-highest disclosed sale was 1 Albert St., which transferred for $25,000 on July 6. Jordyn Lily Guzman was the seller; the buyers were Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and American Neighborhood Mortgage Acceptance Co. LLC. The third disclosed sale was 12 Clifford Lane, which transferred for $16,000 on July 6. Douglas Marsceill was the seller; the buyer was Greylock Federal Credit Union. No other transfers in the period disclosed a sale price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN All three transactions with disclosed prices fall under $500,000: $16,000 for 12 Clifford Lane, $25,000 for 1 Albert Street and $316,000 for 8 McKinley Street. Three addresses appear twice in the July filings: 12 Clifford Lane, 1 Albert Street and 20 East Street. In each case, the second filing is a related instrument recorded the same day rather than a separate sale -- a second deed book/page entry for 12 Clifford Lane and 1 Albert Street, and a deed followed by a UCC filing for 20 East Street. The remaining addresses -- 4 Edmunds Street, 27 Summer Street, 99 Howland Avenue and 166 Friend Street -- each appear once, with no price disclosed for any of them.

MARKET NOTES The period's filings included a mix of property types beyond single-family homes: 4 Edmunds St. Unit A102 is a condominium unit, and 20 East St. transferred to Hintons Berkshire Homes LLC, a corporate buyer, from Toorak Capital Partners LLC and Servis One Inc. A filing at 99 Howland Ave. listed A Squared Hospitality LLC as seller, with no buyer disclosed in the record. One filing, with no street address given, recorded a transaction between the Town of Adams and Solect Energy Lessee LLC. Financial institutions appear as parties in several July filings: Wells Fargo Bank NA (seller, 4 Edmunds St.), Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and American Neighborhood Mortgage Acceptance Co. LLC (buyers, 1 Albert St.), Greylock Federal Credit Union (buyer, 12 Clifford Lane) and Foundation Finance Co. LLC (buyer, 27 Summer St.). No sale price was disclosed for any of these transactions except the Clifford Lane and Albert Street transfers noted above. Square footage and bedroom/bathroom counts were not available in any of the 12 deed records, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made for this period.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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