Lakeville Records Zero Priced Sales as Family Transfers Dominate Deeds

LAKEVILLE -- Plymouth County Registry of Deeds records show seven property transfers in Lakeville between Aug. 28 and Sept. 26, but all seven were nominal-consideration transfers rather than market sales, leaving no price data to report for the period.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Because none of the seven recorded transfers carried a market sale price, no sales count, price range or median can be calculated for this period. All seven entries in the registry data were nominal-consideration transfers, meaning they recorded a token amount, typically $1 or $10, rather than a negotiated sale price. The data does not support characterizing the period as active or quiet in terms of market activity, since no arm's-length sales were recorded.

TOP SALES

No top sales section can be reported this month. None of the seven recorded transfers carried a sale price; each was a nominal-consideration transfer, so none qualifies as a sale under the registry's pricing data.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

The seven transfers clustered on four streets. Two transfers involved Montgomery Street (22 and 26 Montgomery St.), both naming Kitchen family members as sellers and buyers. Two transfers involved Nelsons Grove (0 and 15 Nelsons Grove), both naming Robert C. Dow as a seller and the Dow Family Irrevocable Trust, with Kaitlyn R. McCarty as trustee, as buyer. The remaining transfers were recorded at 11 First Ave., 77 Southworth St. and an additional unaddressed Lakeville parcel tied to the Kitchen family names.

MARKET NOTES

All seven transfers in the period show patterns consistent with transfers among family members or into trusts, based on shared surnames or trust designations in the grantor and grantee names. The Congdon Street transfer (77 Southworth St.) moved property from Laura B. Congdon and Raymond H. Congdon Jr., as trustees, to themselves as trustees. The Kitchen family is tied to three separate transfers (22 Montgomery St., 26 Montgomery St. and one unaddressed parcel), each moving property to Blaine L. Kitchen Jr. and Nancy Kitchen as trustees. The Dow family transfers (0 and 15 Nelsons Grove) moved property from Robert C. Dow, and in one case Cindy Lou Dow, into the Dow Family Irrevocable Trust. The First Avenue transfer involved Sandra I. Newman and Francis J. Lucey Jr. as sellers and Robert A. Lucey as buyer, a shared Lucey surname. No property type, square footage or bedroom/bathroom data was available for any of the seven transfers, and because none carried a sale price, no price-per-square-foot or price-tier analysis is possible this month. Readers interested in actual market pricing for Lakeville should watch for sales that post consideration amounts in the registry in the coming weeks, since sale prices typically appear within about a week of recording for transactions that do include a price.

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.