Hardwick Sale Prices Range Widely as Most July Deeds Stay Undisclosed

HARDWICK -- Nine property transfers were recorded in Hardwick between June 26 and July 25, but only two carried a disclosed sale price, ranging from $6,500 to $385,000.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded nine property transfers in Hardwick during the period. Of those, two listed a sale price, disclosed prices ranged from $6,500 to $385,000, with a median of $195,750 based on the two disclosed transactions. The raw count of nine recorded transfers is the only volume measure available; the data does not include comparable figures from other periods, so no conclusion can be drawn about whether activity was higher or lower than usual. With price disclosed on just two of nine transfers, the dataset offers limited visibility into overall market value trends this period.

TOP SALES 603 Upper Church St. sold for $385,000 on June 26. The sellers were Mark D.W. Edington and Judith G. Edington; the buyer was Eastern Bank.

A Hardwick property (specific street address not listed in the deed record) sold for $6,500 on July 13. The sellers were Donald E. Desjardins and Jane M. Desjardins; the buyers were Roy M. St. George and Cynthia M. St. George, as trustees.

The remaining seven transfers recorded during the period did not include a disclosed sale price, so no further price ranking is possible from the available data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Main Street saw two separate transfers within a day of each other: 357 Main St. (seller Kathryn L. White) on July 1, and 357 Main St., Unit 357 (seller Jeannette C. Teal) on July 2, both without disclosed prices. No other street had more than one recorded transfer. The remaining transfers were spread across Hardwick Road, Barre Road, East Street, Greenwich Road, Clapp Road and Upper Church Street. Because only two of nine transfers carried a disclosed price, a price-tier breakdown is not meaningful for this period.

MARKET NOTES Several of the nine recorded transfers involved mortgage servicers or lenders rather than a conventional buyer-seller sale: Wells Fargo Bank NA to Freedom Mortgage Corp. at 2214 Barre Rd.; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Norwich Commercial Group Inc. to Rocket Mortgage LLC at 15 East St.; and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Northpoint Mortgage Inc. to Pennymac Loan Services LLC at 149 Clapp Rd. One transfer, at 2504 Greenwich Rd., moved from Robert J. Witt and Debra A. Witt, as trustees, to Massachusetts Electric Co. The $6,500 transfer noted above also moved to buyers holding the property in trust. The deed data does not indicate property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family) for most entries, apart from the Main Street unit number suggesting a condominium.

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

Jul 13 - Jul 19

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