Charlton's Lone Priced Sale Hits $550,000 as Most June Deeds Await Figures

CHARLTON -- The Worcester County Registry of Deeds recorded 11 property transfers in Charlton between June 19 and July 18, but sale prices were available for only one of them by the time this report was compiled, limiting what can be said about pricing trends for the period.

MARKET OVERVIEW Eleven deed transfers were recorded in Charlton during the period. One of those, a transfer of property from Alexandro Rodriguez and McKenzie Belanger to Karen G. Fierro, was made for nominal consideration under $10,000 and is not counted as a market sale. Of the remaining 10 transfers, only one, 102 City Depot Rd, has a recorded sale price so far: $550,000. The other nine properties show "price not yet available" in current registry data, which typically means the figure has not yet posted, not that it was withheld. With only one priced transaction, there is not enough data to calculate a meaningful median or price range for the period as a whole; the $550,000 figure for 102 City Depot Rd stands alone. Based on raw transfer count, 11 recorded deeds is a typical volume for a one-month window in a town of Charlton's size, though the near-total absence of posted prices makes it hard to characterize market direction this period.

TOP SALES 102 City Depot Rd sold for $550,000 on June 23. The seller was Donna M. Bibber; the buyer was listed as Robert F. Lemansky, trustee, and Lare Realty Trust. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in deed records. No other transfer in the period has a posted sale price, so a fuller ranking of top sales is not possible until additional figures post to the registry.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Two transfers involved City Depot Rd: 102 City Depot Rd ($550,000, priced) and 82 City Depot Rd (price not yet available), the latter transferred from Richard Mendard III and Charlton Town Conservation. Two transfers involved Freeman Rd: 191 Freeman Rd, transferred from Henry P. Stelmach III and Sarah Jane Stelmach, and 193 Freeman Rd, transferred from Henry P. Stelmach Jr. and Sherry L. Stelmach; both share the Stelmach surname. Charlton Town Conservation also appears as a party in the transfer of 186 Burlingame Rd, from Nelson Burlingame. Beyond these clusters, the remaining transfers, 62 Bond Rd, 279 Stafford St, 185 Nugget Dr, 20 Hollywood Dr and 39 Carpenter Hill Rd, are not geographically grouped with other sales in this dataset. Because only one transfer carries a posted price, properties cannot be sorted into price tiers this period.

MARKET NOTES Three of the 11 recorded transfers list a bank or mortgage company as grantor or grantee: 279 Stafford St (Capital One NA to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA), 185 Nugget Dr (Daniel J. Vieira and Santander Bank NA as sellers) and 39 Carpenter Hill Rd (Wells Fargo Bank NA to Freedom Mortgage Corp). The deed data does not indicate the reason for these transfers. One transfer, from Rodriguez and Belanger to Fierro, was recorded for nominal consideration rather than a market price and is excluded from all sale figures in this report. No beds, baths or square-footage data were available for any property in this period's dataset, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made. Nine of the 11 recorded transfers, 82%, lack a posted sale price as of this writing; readers should expect updated figures to post to the registry in the coming days.

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.