Recorded Scituate Sale Prices Stay Nominal As Most Deeds List No Value

SCITUATE -- Eight property transfers were recorded in Scituate between July 3 and Aug. 1, but only three listed a sale price, and those recorded considerations were unusually low, limiting what the data shows about the town's broader housing market this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Plymouth County Registry of Deeds recorded eight property transfers in Scituate during the period, with recording dates running from July 6 to July 9. Three of the eight listed a recorded consideration -- $700, $887 and $929 -- for a median of $887 among disclosed sales. Those figures are far below typical residential sale prices and do not reflect fair market value; low, round-number considerations of this kind are consistent with transfers among family members, trusts or entities rather than open-market sales. The remaining five transfers listed no price at all, which is common in deed records and does not necessarily indicate anything unusual about those transactions. With only three of eight transfers carrying any recorded price, and those prices appearing nominal, the data does not support a reading on overall market activity, price trends or typical home values in Scituate for this period.

TOP SALES 20 Rebecca Rd. carried the highest recorded consideration, $929, in a sale dated July 8. Sellers Sarah J. Peifer and Sarah J. Kugler transferred the property to buyers Frank M. Sannella and Kristin Sannella. Bed, bath and square-footage figures were not available in the deed record.

24 Merritt Ln. sold for $887 on July 6. The property passed from David S. Frank, trustee, and MD Trust to buyers William Thomas Purdue and Reilly M. Carey.

19 Pennfield Rd. sold for $700 on July 7. Richard K. Anderson Jr., individually and as trustee, transferred the property to S Realty Trust Partnership LLC.

The remaining five transfers -- at 44 Central Ave., 55 Tilden Rd., 14 Christopher Ln., 17 Ocean Ave. and one Scituate property listed without a street address -- had no price disclosed in the deed record.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN The eight transfers were spread across eight different addresses -- Central Avenue, Tilden Road, Rebecca Road, Christopher Lane, Pennfield Road, Ocean Avenue, Merritt Lane and one entry recorded without a street address -- with no two sales sharing the same street. Because five of the eight transfers listed no price, and none of the three disclosed figures resembles a conventional home value, grouping sales by price tier is not meaningful for this period.

MARKET NOTES Five of the eight transfers named a trust or limited liability company as grantor, grantee or both: 44 Central Ave. (Dilorenzo Family Realty Trust), 55 Tilden Rd. (Kirby Trust), the Scituate property listed without a street address (Duane E. Page and Eileen M. Page transferring to themselves as trustees), 24 Merritt Ln. (MD Trust) and 19 Pennfield Rd. (S Realty Trust Partnership LLC). Beds, baths and square footage are not captured in deed records and are omitted here, and the dataset does not specify property type -- single-family, condominium or multi-family -- for any of the eight transfers.

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.