Nominal Trust Transfers Dominate Mattapoisett Deed Filings as Market Sales Stay Rare

MATTAPOISETT -- Eleven property transfers were recorded at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds for Mattapoisett between Sept. 11 and Oct. 10, but only two carried market sale prices. The rest moved ownership into family trusts for nominal consideration, meaning actual sales activity in town was limited to a $3.5 million transaction on Daisey Way and a $520,000 sale on Acushnet Road.

MARKET OVERVIEW Of the 11 recorded transfers, two were market sales with recorded prices, ranging from $520,000 to $3,500,000, with a median of $2,010,000 based on those two figures. The other nine transfers used nominal consideration, typically $10 or less, and are not counted in these price figures because they are not market sales. With only two confirmed sales against 11 total deed filings, the raw count shows limited open-market transaction volume for the period, though the dataset does not permit comparison to prior months or other areas.

TOP SALES The highest-priced transaction was 3 Daisey Way, which sold for $3,500,000 on Sept. 18. The seller was Three Daisy Way Realty Trust, with John G. Haggerty listed as trustee; the buyer was Daisey Way LLC. Bed, bath and square footage figures are not available from deed records.

The second transaction was 29 Acushnet Road, which sold for $520,000 on Sept. 16. The seller was Betty L. O'Connor, trustee; the buyers were Jason Lussier and Dana Lewis. No further property details were available in the deed record.

No other transfers recorded in the period carried a market sale price; the remaining nine were nominal-consideration transfers, described below.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Acushnet Road had two recorded transfers in the period: 29 Acushnet Road sold for $520,000, while 88 Acushnet Road changed hands through a nominal-consideration transfer into the Acushnet Road Irrevocable Trust. No other street in the dataset had more than one transfer. By price tier among the two actual sales, 29 Acushnet Road falls in the $500,000-to-$1 million range and 3 Daisey Way falls above $1 million; no sales were recorded in the under-$500,000 tier this period.

MARKET NOTES Nine of the 11 recorded transfers, more than 80% of the total, were nominal-consideration transfers rather than market sales. Each moved a property into a revocable or irrevocable trust, and in every case the grantee's name shared a surname with the grantor or included "TR" or "TRUST," consistent with transfers within the same family: Appleton, Solowey, Dicarlo, Fealy/Recker, Musante, Dawicki and Grace. Sara M. Appleton transferred three separate properties, 19 Hammond St., 58 Ocean Dr. and an unaddressed Mattapoisett parcel, to herself and Samuel P. Appleton on the same date, Sept. 17. Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records for any property listed in this period, and the dataset does not indicate whether any of the transferred properties are single-family homes, condominiums or multi-family dwellings.

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.