Single Priced Sale Stands Out Amid Wave of Trust Transfers

MATTAPOISETT -- Of the 10 property transfers recorded at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds for Mattapoisett between June 26 and July 25, only one carried a market sale price, while nine were recorded as nominal-consideration transfers, several involving the same owners moving property into trusts.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deed transfers were recorded in Mattapoisett during the period, but only one, at 91 North St., carried a disclosed sale price: $757,500. The other nine entries were recorded as nominal-consideration transfers, meaning a token amount, often $1 or $10, was listed instead of a market price. Because only one transfer included a price, there is not enough priced data to calculate a meaningful median or price range for the period as a whole; the $757,500 figure for 91 North St. stands as both the low and high end of recorded sale prices this month.

TOP SALES The only transaction with a recorded sale price was 91 North St., which sold for $757,500 on June 26. The sellers were Adam C. Robert and Kaitlin L. Robert; the buyers were Rachael Judge and Peter D. Judge. No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data was available from the deed record. No other transfer in this period included a sale price; the remaining nine were nominal-consideration transfers, which are not counted as sales for pricing purposes.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN North Street saw two recorded transfers: the $757,500 sale at 91 North St. and a nominal-consideration transfer at 151 North St. involving Charles and Nancy Diehl as sellers and Blair C. Diehl, as trustee, and Casey E. Heenehan, as trustee, as buyers. All other addresses, including Union Avenue, Cove Street, Quansett Street East, Hereford Hill Road, Acushnet Road, Oakland Street and Winter Hill Road, each had a single transfer recorded, with no other street-level clustering evident in the data.

MARKET NOTES Eight of the nine nominal-consideration transfers involved a grantor transferring property to a grantee with a matching surname and a "TR" or "Trust" designation, indicating the properties were moved into trusts rather than sold on the open market. Those included transfers at 5 Union Ave. (Hanson to Hanson, as trustees), 29 Cove St. (Leary to Leary, as trustees), 3 Quansett St. East (Guillette to Guillette, as trustees), 15 Hereford Hill Rd. (Patricia Nicholson to herself as trustee of the Patricia Nicholson Revocable Trust), 112 Acushnet Rd. (Dawn W. Forbes to herself as trustee of the Cora Wedgwood Finch Family Trust), 9 Oakland St. (Bonney to Bonney, as trustees), 1 Winter Hill Rd. (Sullivan to Sullivan, as trustees) and 151 North St. (Diehl to Diehl and Heenehan, as trustees). One nominal-consideration transfer, an unspecified Mattapoisett address, listed sellers Patrick M. and Sharon J. Costello and buyer Cheryl Marie Gammell; the names do not share a surname or trust designation, so no family or trust pattern can be confirmed from the data. No property-type information, such as single-family versus condominium or multi-family status, was available from any of the deed records this period.

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.