Only One of Eleven Peru Property Sales Discloses a Price This Month

PERU -- Eleven property transactions were recorded in Peru between July 24 and Aug. 22, but only one carried a disclosed sale price: a $980,000 deal on Haskell Road that stood alone as the month's sole verifiable market data point.

MARKET OVERVIEW Eleven deeds were recorded in Peru during the period. Of those, only one, the sale of 13 Haskell Road, included a disclosed consideration amount: $980,000. Because that is the only price on record, it also serves as both the high and low end of the range, and as the median. The other 10 transactions are listed as price not disclosed, a routine feature of deed records that does not necessarily indicate no money changed hands. With pricing data available for just one of 11 recorded transactions, the raw count alone is not a reliable basis for judging whether the period was active or quiet.

TOP SALES 13 Haskell Road sold for $980,000, recorded Aug. 29 with a transaction date of July 29. The seller was listed as Kopinto Brian, trustee, and Haskell Road Land Trust; the buyers were James Weaver and Twila Weaver. No other recorded transaction in this period disclosed a sale price, so no additional properties can be ranked by price.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN David Drive saw the most recorded activity of any street, with three separate entries: a mortgage discharge from Adams Community Bank to John T. Lewis Jr. at 4 David Drive, a subsequent transfer of that same address from Lewis to the town of Peru, and a separate transaction at 13 David Drive from Stephanie Murphy to All In Credit Union. Greylock Circle recorded two entries, both mortgage discharges from Pittsfield Cooperative Bank to Wallace E. Dolle and Jennifer A. Dolle. East Main Street/Road also recorded two entries involving the Solarz family: a deed referencing Paul J. Solarz Sr. and Paul J. Solarz Jr., and a transfer from Paul J. Solarz Jr. to himself and Jennifer Brunt. Single entries were recorded on Middlefield Road (Ryan David Riopel, seller) and Brookside Road (a formal probate petition through Family Court). One additional entry, an easement agreement involving John P. Munch, was recorded without a specific street address. None of these transactions besides the Haskell Road sale disclosed a price, so no tiered price breakdown by location is possible this period.

MARKET NOTES The period's records reflect a mix of transaction types beyond conventional home sales. Two entries are mortgage discharges tied to the same Greylock Circle address, and a third mortgage discharge appears on David Drive. One transaction records the town of Peru as buyer at 4 David Drive. Two entries, at 61 East Main Road and 61 East Main Street/Road, appear to involve transfers within the Solarz family, based on shared names between seller and buyer; the reason for those transfers is not stated in the deed data. One entry at 8 Brookside Road is listed as a formal probate petition through Family Court rather than a standard sale. The 13 David Drive entry lists All In Credit Union as buyer, with no price disclosed. No beds, baths or square footage figures were available in the deed data for any property this period, and no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made as a result.

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.