Two Disclosed Sales Anchor Deerfield's Otherwise Price-Silent Housing Month

DEERFIELD -- Twelve properties changed hands in Deerfield between June 26 and July 25, according to deeds recorded at the Franklin County Registry of Deeds, but only two of those transactions disclosed a sale price, limiting what can be said about the town's overall market conditions this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Of the 12 recorded deeds, only two carried a disclosed consideration amount: $123,812 and $141,000, producing a median of $132,406. The other 10 transfers -- including bank-to-owner conveyances, a family trust transfer, two municipal tax-title transfers and several straightforward seller-to-buyer deeds -- listed no sale price, which is common in deed records and does not necessarily indicate the properties had no value or were transferred without payment. With price data available for only two of 12 transactions, the raw sales count of 12 suggests notable deed activity for the town, but there is not enough disclosed pricing to characterize the broader market as active or quiet.

TOP SALES

340 Greenfield Road sold for $141,000, recorded July 6. The sellers were Joseph E. Carey and Kristin M. Carey; the buyer was Holyoke Credit Union.

155 North Main Street (also recorded as 155 N Main St.) sold for $123,812, recorded June 26. The sellers were listed as Aaron J. Clark and Aaron Clark; the buyers were Freedom Mortgage Corp. and Dart Collateral Manager LLC.

No other deeds in this period disclosed a sale price. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available in the deed records for any property.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

North Main Street saw two separate deeds recorded within the period at the same address: the June 26 transfer from Aaron J. Clark to Freedom Mortgage Corp. and Dart Collateral Manager LLC for $123,812, followed by a July 2 transfer of the property from Capital One NA and Dovenmuehle Mortgage Inc., acting as attorneys, to Aaron J. Clark and Amie Lynn Clark, with no price disclosed. That is the only street with more than one recorded transfer in this data set.

Beyond that, the remaining nine sales were spread across individual streets with no other overlapping addresses: Sand Gully Road, Steam Mill Road, River Road, Conway Road, Conway Street, Sugarloaf Street, Hillside Road, Mathews Road, and one unaddressed parcel. Because only two of the 12 deeds disclosed a price, sales cannot be meaningfully grouped into price tiers for this period.

MARKET NOTES

Two deeds recorded July 6 show the Deerfield Town Treasurer conveying property -- one unaddressed parcel and 14 Steam Mill Road -- to the same buyers, Carl G. Burwick and Angela F. Burwick, consistent with a tax-title transfer pattern rather than a typical open-market sale.

A July 1 deed for 41 Conway Street shows William J. Ciulewicz and Janet E. Ciulewicz transferring the property to William J. Ciulewicz, trustee, and Janet E. Ciulewicz, trustee -- a within-family trust transfer rather than a sale to a new owner.

A July 2 deed for 281 Conway Road shows Joan Grzybowski, acting through an attorney, transferring the property into a joint trust with Douglas C. Cooney as trustee, another transfer that keeps the property under related control rather than moving it to an unrelated buyer.

The 155 North Main Street property's two transfers within the period -- first from the Clark family to mortgage-related entities, then from bank-affiliated sellers back to a member of the Clark family days later -- reflect a pattern visible in the deed sequence, though the records do not indicate why the transfers occurred in that order.

No square-footage or property-type data was available in this data set, so no price-per-square-foot or single-family-versus-condo comparisons can be made this period.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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