Plymouth Sale Prices Cluster Tightly Between $645 and $840 in July

PLYMOUTH -- Ten property transfers were recorded in Plymouth over a four-week stretch ending Aug. 1, but only four of the ten listed a sale price, and at least five of the deeds appear to move property within the same family or into a family trust rather than to an outside buyer.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten sales were recorded at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds between July 3 and Aug. 1. Of those, four disclosed a sale price, ranging from $645 to $840, with a median sale price of $777. The remaining six transfers, several of them trust-to-trust or family-to-family transactions, did not list a consideration amount in the deed record. Because price data is available for fewer than half of the month's filings, the total dollar volume of activity in Plymouth cannot be reliably assessed from this data set. Taken purely as a count, 10 recorded transfers over a single month is not on its face an unusually high or low figure for one town, though a full comparison would require prior-month totals not included in this data set. Readers should treat the $645-to-$840 price range as describing only the minority of sales for which a price was recorded, not the full month's market.

TOP SALES The highest-priced sale on record was 2 Gabriel Lane, which sold for $840 on July 7. Sellers Kenneth S. Nunley and Maureen Nunley conveyed the property to buyers Kathryn G. Postma and Jason T. Olimpia. 196 Bourne Road sold for $780 on July 6. The seller, J Graham Properties LLC, transferred the property to buyers Daniel Sullivan and Katina Jack. 7 Clam Pudding sold for $775 on July 7. Edward F. Fitzgerald, as trustee of the Edward F. Fitzgerald Living Trust, sold the property to Henry Mark Closson and Katherine H. Closson, both acting as trustees. 31 Lantern Lane sold for $645 on July 7. Seller Eileen M. Higgins conveyed the property to buyers Michael Dietz and Luke Dagley. These four transactions are the only ones in the period for which the registry recorded a consideration amount; the other six sales in this roundup are listed as price not disclosed, which is common for trust and estate transfers.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No two sales in this period shared a street name, so no single street or cluster stood out geographically. All four sales with disclosed prices fell within a narrow band, from $645 to $840, with no transaction separating itself as a high-price outlier relative to the others. The six sales without disclosed prices were spread across White Horse Road, Brookside Avenue, Marscot Way, Larkspur Lane, Poets Corner, and one parcel identified only by a book-and-page reference, with no street address given in the record. With so many prices undisclosed, a price-tier breakdown of the full 10 sales is not possible from this data.

MARKET NOTES At least five of the 10 recorded deeds involved matching or overlapping family names between grantor and grantee: a Crane-to-Crane trust transfer, a Keating family trust restructuring, a Hoagland-to-Hoagland transfer, a Maresco family trust transfer, and a Griffin family transfer into the Griffin Family Protection Trust. None of these five disclosed a sale price, consistent with the broader pattern in this data set that intra-family and trust transfers tend to omit a stated consideration. One seller, J Graham Properties LLC, was a business entity rather than an individual, the only non-individual party recorded as a seller in the period. Property type -- single-family, condominium or multi-family -- along with bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures, is not available in deed records and is not included in this roundup.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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