Most Scituate Deeds Recorded Last Month Lack Disclosed Sale Prices

SCITUATE -- Eight property transfers were recorded at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds for Scituate addresses between June 19 and July 18, but only one included a disclosed sale price, leaving most of the period's market activity without pricing detail.

MARKET OVERVIEW Of the eight sales recorded during the period, only one -- the June 24 transfer of 94 Old Oaken Bucket Rd. -- listed a sale price, at $586. Because a price range and median cannot be meaningfully calculated from a single data point, that $586 figure is the only price on record for the period; it should not be read as representative of Scituate's broader housing market. With seven of eight deeds marked "price not disclosed," the dataset does not support a comparison of this period's activity level, active or quiet, to prior months based on price alone.

TOP SALES Only one transaction in the period carries a disclosed price, so it stands as the sole priced sale: 94 Old Oaken Bucket Rd. sold for $586 on June 24. The deed was recorded from sellers Jonathan J. Davey and Carol Dunphy, both acting as conservator, to buyers Brittany A. Goslin and Garrett F. Goslin.

The remaining seven deeds recorded during the period did not disclose a sale price and cannot be ranked against this transaction or one another by value. They are detailed in the Neighborhood Breakdown and Market Notes below.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The eight recorded transfers spanned eight different locations -- Avas Lane, Sedgewick Drive, Old Oaken Bucket Road, Longmeadow Road, Crescent Avenue, Clapp Road, Lincoln Avenue, and one Scituate address without a street listed in the available record -- with no street producing more than one recorded transfer during the period. Because disclosed pricing is limited to the single $586 transaction, sales cannot be meaningfully grouped into price tiers this month.

MARKET NOTES Three of the eight recorded deeds -- 8 Avas Lane, 87 Sedgewick Drive, and an undisclosed Scituate address tied to the Dias Pride Trust -- transferred ownership from an individual or couple to a trust bearing the same family surname, a pattern consistent with estate planning rather than open-market sales. A fourth transfer, 55 Crescent Ave., moved from seller Barbara Hopey to buyer Susan M. Heitmann, who took title as trustee of the Susan M. Heitmann Trust. The remaining three transfers -- 18 Longmeadow Road, 153 Clapp Road, and 9 Lincoln Avenue -- involved different surnames on both sides of the deed, consistent with arm's-length sales, though none disclosed a price. No bed, bath, or square-footage data was available in the deed records for this period, and property type -- single-family, condominium, or multi-family -- could not be determined from address information alone.

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.