Only two of nine Templeton deeds this month disclosed a sale price

TEMPLETON -- Nine property transfers were recorded at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds for Templeton between June 19 and July 18, but only two carried a disclosed sale price, limiting what the month's filings show about the local market.

MARKET OVERVIEW Nine sales were recorded during the period. Of those, two disclosed a sale price: $30,000 and $700,000, producing a reported median of $365,000. The remaining seven transfers were recorded without a disclosed consideration amount, which is common for certain deed types but leaves most of the month's activity outside price analysis. Based on raw count alone, nine recorded transfers is a moderate volume for a single month in Templeton, but the low rate of price disclosure -- two of nine -- means the numbers should be read with that limitation in mind rather than as a full picture of market pricing.

TOP SALES The only two transactions with disclosed prices were the month's largest and smallest by definition. A property in Templeton (no street address listed in the deed) sold for $700,000 on June 24, transferred from seller Nathan D. Butler and Nathan Butler to buyer GFA Federal Credit Union. At 226 South Rd., a property sold for $30,000 on June 23, from seller Barett Fred Dilling to buyer St Marys Credit Union. No bed, bath or square footage data was available for either transaction. The other seven recorded transfers -- at 21 S. Main St., 131 French Rd., 50 Shore Dr., 200 Farnsworth Rd., 457 Patriots Rd., 522 Barre Rd. and 55 Carruth Rd. -- did not disclose a sale price and cannot be ranked among the month's top sales.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street had more than one recorded transfer this period, so no street-level cluster emerged. By price tier, one sale fell in the $500,000-to-$1 million range ($700,000, no street address given), one fell under $500,000 with a disclosed price ($30,000 at 226 South Rd.), and seven fell in an undisclosed-price tier spanning 21 S. Main St., 131 French Rd., 50 Shore Dr., 200 Farnsworth Rd., 457 Patriots Rd., 522 Barre Rd. and 55 Carruth Rd.

MARKET NOTES Several of the month's recorded transfers list banks, credit unions or mortgage-servicing entities as a grantor or grantee rather than an individual buyer or seller. Freedom Mortgage Corp. acquired the 21 S. Main St. property from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and Total Mortgage Services LLC. GFA Federal Credit Union and St Marys Credit Union appear as buyers in the two disclosed-price sales. Operative Bank appears as a seller at 200 Farnsworth Rd., and Avidia Bank appears as a seller at 457 Patriots Rd. The presence of these institutional parties across roughly half of the month's recorded deeds is a pattern worth noting for readers tracking the local market, though the deed data does not indicate why each transfer occurred. Separately, Nathan D. Butler is listed as a seller in two separate deeds recorded the same day, June 24 -- once for the $700,000 Templeton property and once, with Rochell Butler, for 131 French Rd., which had no disclosed price and no buyer listed in the available data. No square footage or per-square-foot figures were available in this dataset, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons could be made.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

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