West Stockbridge Deed Prices Still Pending for 10 of 12 September Transfers

WEST STOCKBRIDGE -- Twelve deeds were recorded at the Southern Berkshire Registry of Deeds for West Stockbridge properties between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26, but only two carried a sale price by the time this report was compiled, leaving most of the period's activity still to be priced in registry data.

MARKET OVERVIEW Of the 12 recorded transfers, two show a consideration amount: $536,000 and $1,500,000, for a range of $536,000 to $1,500,000 and a median of $1,018,000 based on those two figures. The remaining 10 deeds list no price yet; sale prices typically appear in registry data within about a week of recording, and several of the unpriced deeds here were recorded as recently as Sept. 21 to Sept. 23, so more prices are likely to post soon. Because only two of 12 recorded deeds have a price attached, the raw count of 12 transfers is the only volume measure this data set supports; there is no prior-period figure here to say whether that is more or less active than usual.

TOP SALES With just two priced transactions, both are listed here. The highest-priced sale was 3 West Center Road, which changed hands for $1,500,000 in a deed recorded Sept. 1. Christopher J. Fabino and Heidi P. Fabino are listed as sellers and Adams Community Bank as buyer. The second-highest, and only other priced sale, was 4 Lenox Road, recorded Sept. 17 for $536,000. Brett Essenter is listed as seller and Pittsfield Cooperative Bank as buyer. No bed, bath or square-footage data is available from these deed records.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN West Center Road accounted for two of the period's 12 deeds: the $1,500,000 sale at 3 West Center Road and an unpriced deed at 104 W Center Road, on which Berkshire Bank is listed as seller and Julia Lord and Lee Kalcheim as buyers. No other street had more than one recorded deed in this period. Two deeds recorded the same day, Sept. 1, list Christopher and Heidi Fabino as sellers: one for 3 West Center Road and one with no street address listed in this data set. With only two of the 12 transfers carrying a price, a price-tier breakdown is not meaningful this period; the two known prices fall on either side of $1 million.

MARKET NOTES A bank or credit union appears as buyer or seller in seven of the 12 recorded deeds: Pittsfield Cooperative Bank, TD Bank/TD Banknorth, Berkshire Bank, Adams Community Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Lee Bank and Greylock Federal Credit Union each appear on one or more records. That is a data-driven pattern worth flagging to readers, though the deed data provided does not specify the type of each transfer, so no conclusion is drawn here about why banks are involved. One record, for 88 Pixley Hill Rd Lot 2, lists Massachusetts Electric Co. and Verizon New England Inc. as buyers, consistent with a utility easement rather than a residential property sale. Four of the 12 records, at 3 Cone Hill Road, 2 Woodruff Road, the unaddressed Sept. 1 filing and 26 State Line Road, list no buyer name in the data provided. One buyer, at 48 Swamp Road, is listed with a trustee designation for both named individuals, James B. Tiffin and Samuel D. Perry.

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.