Shutesbury June Deed Data Shows Wide Price Gap With Minimal Disclosed Sales

SHUTESBURY -- The Franklin County Registry of Deeds recorded 12 property transfers in Shutesbury between June 6 and July 5, 2026, but pricing data is nearly absent: only two of those transactions carried disclosed consideration amounts, sharply limiting what the period's deed record can reveal about market conditions.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Twelve deeds were recorded during the period. Of those, only two disclosed a sale price — $400,000 for 305 West Pelham Rd and $80,000 for 18 Haskins Way — yielding a midpoint of $240,000. With just two data points, that figure does not constitute a statistically meaningful median and should not be read as representative of typical sale prices in town. The remaining 10 transfers either involved no consideration, were intra-family or trust conveyances, or were bank-related instruments where price was not recorded. The volume of 12 recorded deeds is notable on its face, but the mix of transaction types means arm's-length market sales were likely a fraction of that total.
• TOP SALES
• The highest disclosed sale of the period was 305 West Pelham Rd, which sold June 16 for $400,000. Scott A. Gibson was the seller; Cameron Berg and Andrew Scott Berg are listed as buyers. A separate deed recorded the same day shows Cameron Berg as grantor for the same address, with no buyer named and no price disclosed; the relationship between the two instruments is not clear from deed data alone. The only other transaction with a disclosed price was 18 Haskins Way, which sold June 15 for $80,000. Mare G. Fox and Elizabeth S. Fox are listed as sellers; UMassFive College Federal Credit Union is the buyer.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• Two transfers were recorded on January Hill Road or January Hills Road — the addresses differ slightly between entries, which may reflect a clerical variation — both dated June 10, both with Florence Bank as seller and Ellen S. Waldinger (also listed as Ellen Waldinger) as buyer; these appear to be a single transaction recorded twice and are counted as one here. No price was disclosed. Two other deeds reference the January Hills Rd corridor: an undisclosed transfer dated June 16 with Wells Fargo Bank NA and Onity Mortgage Corp as sellers, and a June 15 entry with Wells Fargo Bank NA and Freedom Mortgage Corp as sellers and no address beyond "Shutesbury, MA." The remaining transactions are spread across Locks Pond Rd, Cooleyville Rd, West Pelham Rd, Beechwood Ln, Haskins Way, Pratt Corner Rd, and Sojourner Way — one deed each, with no street showing multiple distinct arm's-length sales.
• MARKET NOTES
• Several transfers in this period show patterns associated with non-market conveyances. Two deeds — 318 Locks Pond Rd and 34 Cooleyville Rd — transferred property into trusts bearing the same names as the sellers, consistent with estate-planning instruments. At least three deeds list a bank or mortgage servicer as grantor, which can indicate foreclosure or post-foreclosure disposition; no conclusions about property condition or distressed-sale pricing can be drawn from deed data alone. UMassFive College Federal Credit Union appears as both a buyer (18 Haskins Way, June 15) and a seller (6 Beechwood Ln, June 16), suggesting a rapid transfer possibly related to a lending or foreclosure sequence, though the data does not confirm that. Because square footage is unavailable for any property, price-per-square-foot analysis cannot be performed.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 8 - Jun 14

Jun 15 - Jun 21

Jun 22 - Jun 28

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