Hopedale Disclosed Sale Prices Span $25,000 To $975,000 In Latest Deeds

HOPEDALE -- Ten property transfers were recorded in Hopedale between June 19 and July 18, but only two of the deeds included a disclosed sale price, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds records, leaving most of the period's real estate activity without a public price tag.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 10 property transfers in Hopedale during the four-week period. Of those, only two disclosed a consideration amount: $975,000 and $25,000, a spread of $950,000. The remaining eight deeds were recorded without a stated sale price, which is common for certain transaction types, including transfers between financial institutions, trustee deeds and transfers among family members. Because price data is available for just two of the 10 transactions -- one-fifth of the total -- a market-wide median or price trend cannot be reliably calculated from disclosed figures alone. Based on the raw count of 10 recorded transfers in four weeks, the period shows a steady volume of deed activity in Hopedale; no prior-period figures were provided for comparison, so whether this represents a faster or slower pace than usual cannot be determined from this data set.

TOP SALES Two deeds disclosed a sale price during the period. The higher of the two was a Hopedale property that sold for $975,000, recorded June 26; the deed did not list a street address. Sellers Jennifer L. McKeon and Kelly J. McKeon transferred the property to buyers Steven Sousa and Lisa Sousa. The second disclosed sale was 1 Cutler St., which sold for $25,000, recorded June 23. Sellers Kailyn Santacroce and Ronald Santacroce transferred that property to Milford Federal Bank. The remaining eight recorded transfers -- properties on Harmony Terrace, Westcott Road, Inman Street, Hopedale Street, Plain Street, Laurelwood Drive, South Main Street and Heron Lane -- did not carry a disclosed sale price in the deed record, so they cannot be ranked by value.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No street had more than one recorded transaction during the period, so no street-level cluster emerged. Of the two disclosed-price sales, one fell below $500,000 (the $25,000 transfer at 1 Cutler St.) and one exceeded $500,000 (the $975,000 sale with no listed address). The eight transfers without disclosed prices were spread across eight separate streets -- Harmony Terrace, Westcott Road, Inman Street, Hopedale Street, Plain Street, Laurelwood Drive, South Main Street and Heron Lane -- each appearing once in the record.

MARKET NOTES Eight of the 10 recorded deeds, or 80%, did not disclose a sale price, a notably high share for the period. Several transactions involved banks or mortgage servicers as a party: Wells Fargo Bank NA transferred a property on Inman Street to Freedom Mortgage Corp; Milford Federal Bank appears both as a seller on Hopedale Street and as the buyer of the Cutler Street property; Rocket Mortgage LLC transferred a Laurelwood Drive property to Mr Cooper; and Newrez LLC transferred a South Main Street property to Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing. These lender-to-lender or lender-involved transfers are a distinct category from typical owner-to-buyer sales. Two other deeds show transfers between parties sharing the same family name -- Nikki Reis Hachicho to Nikki Hachicho on Westcott Road, and Jennifer P. Bourgeois, as trustee, to Jennifer P. Bourgeois individually on Heron Lane -- a pattern consistent with trust or estate-related transfers within a family, though the deed records do not state a reason for either transfer. No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data was available in the deed records for any property in this period.

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.