Two Disclosed Sales Bracket Great Barrington Market At $500,000 To $760,000

GREAT BARRINGTON -- Twelve deeds recorded at the Southern Berkshire Registry of Deeds between July 17 and Aug. 15 show property changing hands across town, but sale prices were disclosed in only two of those transactions, limiting what conclusions can be drawn about the broader market.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded 12 property transfers in the period. Of those, only two listed a sale price: $500,000 for 205 Long Pond Road and $760,000 for 36 Silver St. Based on those two figures, the median sale price is $630,000. With price data available for just 2 of 12 recorded transfers, this range and median describe a small slice of the period's activity rather than the full market. The raw count of 12 transfers indicates activity was ongoing during the four-week span, though the scarcity of disclosed pricing makes it impossible to characterize the period as active or quiet in dollar terms.

TOP SALES

36 Silver St sold for $760,000 on July 20. Sellers Robert L. West and Donna P. West transferred the property to buyers David M. Guarducci and Lydia Rollins. This was the highest disclosed sale price of the period.

205 Long Pond Road sold for $500,000 on July 22. Sellers Eric M. Steuernagle and Julie A. Steuernagle transferred the property to Pittsfield Cooperative Bank.

The remaining 10 recorded transfers did not disclose a sale price and cannot be ranked among top sales by dollar value.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Cottage Street had two recorded transfers in the period: 54 Cottage St, sold July 20 by Huiyong Zheng to Huiyong Zheng and Daiying Lin, and 144 Cottage St, sold July 20 with Derek Sanders as seller and no buyer listed in the available data. No other street had more than one recorded transfer. By price tier, the two disclosed sales both fall in the $500,000-to-$1 million range; the price tier of the other 10 transfers cannot be determined from available data.

MARKET NOTES

Beds, baths and square footage were not available in the deed data for any property in this period. Four of the 12 transfers involved a bank or mortgage servicer as a named party: Pittsfield Cooperative Bank acquired 205 Long Pond Road; Greylock Federal Credit Union sold 6 Highland Drive to Richard F. Clarke and Pamela V. Clarke; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Com LLC transferred 34 Crosby St to JPMorgan Chase Bank NA; and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and One Reverse Mortgage LLC transferred 164 Alford Road to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Several other transfers in the period involved trusts, including Hart Street Nominee Realty Trust, Wilcox Richard B TR and Butler Joyce E TR at 59 Blue Hill Road, and Miller Estelle TR at 34 Bridge St Unit 203. The Cottage Street transfer at 54 Cottage St listed Huiyong Zheng as both a seller and a buyer, alongside co-buyer Daiying Lin. No motivations for these trust or estate-linked transfers are indicated in the deed data.

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.