South Street Property Fetches $1.13 Million in Williamstown's Top June Transaction

WILLIAMSTOWN -- Deed recordings filed with the Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds between June 6 and July 5, 2026, reflect 18 total instruments, but only a handful represent arm's-length property conveyances — with a $1.13 million transfer on South Street standing as the period's sole clearly confirmed market sale.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• The 18 recorded instruments in this period include mortgages, mortgage discharges, bank-related conveyances, and utility transfers alongside property sales, making a standard market summary difficult to render accurately. Of six entries carrying disclosed consideration amounts ranging from $20,000 to $1,130,000, the majority involve financial institutions as buyer or seller — a pattern typical of mortgage recordings, foreclosure-related deeds, and deeds in lieu of foreclosure rather than open-market transactions. One arm's-length sale — 148 South St. at $1,130,000 — was clearly identifiable from the data. Readers should note that deed-recording datasets routinely capture all recorded instruments, not only property sales, and this period's data reflects that mix.
• TOP SALES
• The highest-priced transaction recorded during the period was 148 South St., which sold June 9 for $1,130,000. Olivier Meslay and Laure Meslay conveyed the property to Eileen H. Dowling. A second instrument on the same property, recorded the same day without a disclosed price, lists Dowling as grantor; the nature of that related filing is not determinable from deed data alone.

518 Water St. carried a recorded consideration of $340,000 in a June 11 instrument, but the grantee is listed as Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and TD Bank N.A. — indicating the figure likely represents a mortgage amount rather than a purchase price. Similarly, 321 North St. shows $250,000 recorded June 18 with New American Funding LLC and MERS as grantees, consistent with a mortgage recording rather than a sale.

• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• South Street produced the period's only confirmed open-market transaction at $1,130,000. North Street generated two recorded instruments — a prior mortgage discharge from Adams Community Bank to Christina M. Cummings and a new mortgage filing — both tied to the same property at 321 North St. The Windflower Way corridor accounts for two recordings: 46 Lower Windflower Way (price not disclosed) and 5 Windflower Way, where a $50,000 consideration was recorded with MountainOne Bank as grantee, suggesting a mortgage instrument. Roaring Brook Road, Henderson Road, Simonds Road, North Hoosac Road, Hancock Road, Sand Springs Road, Forest Road, North Hemlock Lane, Cold Spring Road, and Main Street each appear once in the dataset.
• MARKET NOTES
• Several recordings name MountainOne Bank, Adams Community Bank, TD Bank N.A., Bank of America N.A., Guild Mortgage, and Greylock Federal Credit Union as parties, consistent with routine mortgage activity — originations, discharges, and foreclosure-related transfers — rather than market sales. The transfer of 1017 Simonds Rd. from SFB Construction LLC to Tesla Inc., recorded June 16 without a disclosed price, is an outlier by buyer identity; deed records do not indicate the nature or use of that conveyance. A no-address entry recording a transfer from the Pines Lodge Realty Trust to Massachusetts Electric Co. suggests an easement or utility corridor conveyance. These instrument types are standard in registry data but should not be counted as residential market sales.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 8 - Jun 14

Jun 15 - Jun 21

Jun 22 - Jun 28

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