Family and Trust Transfers Dominate Mattapoisett's July Deed Filings

MATTAPOISETT -- Eleven property transfers were recorded at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds for Mattapoisett addresses between July 3 and Aug. 1, but only two of those filings disclosed a sale price, and most of the month's activity consisted of owners moving property into family trusts or transferring it to relatives rather than selling on the open market.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The registry recorded 11 property transfers in the four-week period. Of those, only two — 9.1% — listed a consideration amount. The disclosed figures ranged from $160 to $985, producing a median of $572 across the two priced transactions. Because sale prices were absent from nine of the 11 filings, these figures describe only a small slice of the month's recorded activity and should not be read as representative of typical home values in town. Based on raw filing count alone, July was a moderately active month for recorded deeds, though the scarcity of price data limits any conclusion about market conditions.

TOP SALES

Only two transactions carried a disclosed price, so both are listed here rather than the usual three to five.

The highest-priced sale was 2 Winter Hill Rd. Seller-listed deed records show gianna Mackenzie Sylvia and Daniel Joseph Sylvia sold the property to Ryan P. Murphy and Erica L. Murphy on July 14 for $985.

The second disclosed sale was 9 Pine Rd, which sold July 9 for $160. Deed records list Paul F. Forrest as seller and James P. Forrest and Jennifer Forrest as buyers — a transaction between family members based on shared surname.

The remaining nine transactions in the dataset did not include a disclosed consideration amount and are reported here as "price not disclosed": 7 Pinewood Way, 24 Pine Island Rd, 10 Shagbark Cir, 5 Union Ave, 28 Prince Snow Cir, 29 Cove St, 3 Quansett St East, 15 Hereford Hill Rd and 112 Acushnet Rd.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

No street in this dataset had more than one recorded transfer, so there is no street-level cluster to report. Grouped by price tier, only two transactions carry disclosed figures: one at $160 (9 Pine Rd) and one at $985 (2 Winter Hill Rd). The other nine transactions, spread across Pinewood Way, Pine Island Road, Shagbark Circle, Union Avenue, Prince Snow Circle, Cove Street, Quansett Street East, Hereford Hill Road and Acushnet Road, carry no price data and cannot be sorted into tiers.

MARKET NOTES

Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures are not available from deed records and are omitted here.

A majority of July's recorded transfers — six of 11 — moved property from an individual owner into a trust bearing that same owner's name: 7 Pinewood Way (Paul L. and Barbara K. Choquette to themselves as trustees), 5 Union Ave (Scott M.A. and Jeanmarie Hanson to themselves as trustees), 29 Cove St (Sean J. Leary to himself and Gabriella Leary as trustees), 3 Quansett St East (Erik P. and Lori A. Guillette to themselves as trustees), 15 Hereford Hill Rd (Patricia Nicholson to herself as trustee of the Patricia Nicholson Revocable Trust) and 112 Acushnet Rd (Dawn W. Forbes to herself as trustee of the Cora Wedgwood Finch Family Trust). A seventh transfer, 9 Pine Rd, was between family members sharing the Forrest surname. None of these seven filings disclosed a sale price, consistent with the pattern that intra-family and trust transfers in this dataset did not carry disclosed consideration amounts.

The remaining four transactions — 2 Winter Hill Rd, 24 Pine Island Rd, 10 Shagbark Cir and 28 Prince Snow Cir — involved buyers and sellers with different surnames. Of those four, only 2 Winter Hill Rd disclosed a price. The property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family) is not specified in the deed data provided and is not reported here.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

Jul 13 - Jul 19

Jul 20 - Jul 26

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