Single Recorded Price Anchors Otherwise Price-Pending Hardwick Deed Month

HARDWICK -- Nine property transfers were recorded in Hardwick between June 26 and July 25, but just one listed a sale price in the registry, leaving most of the month's deed activity without a dollar figure to report.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded nine Hardwick transactions during the period. Two of those were nominal-consideration transfers, recorded for token amounts and not counted as market sales. Of the remaining seven property transfers, only one, at 603 Upper Church St., carries a recorded price so far: $385,000. Because that is the only price available, the price range and median sale price both stand at $385,000 for now. The other six property transfers show "price not yet available," which typically means the figure has not yet reached the registry, not that a price was withheld. A raw count of nine recorded transfers does not, on its own, indicate whether the period was active or quiet without additional historical comparison.

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. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available from the deed record. No other transaction in this period has a recorded sale price; 822 Hardwick Road, 2214 Barre Road, 357 Main St. Unit 357, 15 East St., 357 Main St. and 149 Clapp Road all show price not yet available.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Main Street saw two separate transfers in the period, at 357 Main St. and 357 Main St. Unit 357, both with sellers listed (Jeannette C. Teal and Kathryn L. White, respectively) but no recorded prices yet. No other street had more than one recorded transfer. With only one priced sale available, a price-tier breakdown is limited: the single recorded sale, at 603 Upper Church St., falls under $500,000. The remaining six priced-pending transfers cannot yet be sorted into tiers.

MARKET NOTES Several transfers in this period involved mortgage-industry entities rather than individual buyers or sellers. Wells Fargo Bank NA transferred 2214 Barre Road to Freedom Mortgage Corp.; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Northpoint Mortgage Inc. transferred 149 Clapp Road to PennyMac Loan Services LLC; and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Norwich Commercial Group Inc. transferred 15 East St. to Rocket Mortgage LLC. These transfers lack sale prices in the current dataset. The two nominal-consideration transfers included a transfer from Donald E. and Jane M. Desjardins to Roy M. and Cynthia M. St. George, listed as trustees ("TR"), and a transfer from Robert J. and Debra A. Witt, also listed as trustees, to Massachusetts Electric Co. at 2504 Greenwich Road. Deed records did not include bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data for any property in this period, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made.

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.