Lone disclosed sale sets $250,000 benchmark as most West Stockbridge deeds withhold price

WEST STOCKBRIDGE -- Ten property transfers were recorded in West Stockbridge between June 19 and July 18, but only one deed disclosed a sale price, limiting what can be said about the town's overall market movement this period.

MARKET OVERVIEW Ten deeds were recorded during the period. Of those, one disclosed a sale price: $250,000, for the property at 44 Main St. That single disclosed sale sets both the low and high end of the known price range at $250,000, and the median sale price is also $250,000. With price data available for only one of 10 transactions, the raw transaction count is the only reliable indicator of activity level this period, and it does not by itself indicate whether the market was active or quiet compared with typical local volume.

TOP SALES 44 Main St sold for $250,000 on June 30. Sellers were Alistair Black and Cameron Black; the buyer was Dominick Luchi Jr. No other recorded deed in this period disclosed a sale price, so no additional transactions can be ranked by price. The remaining nine transfers are listed below by address and date, each with price not disclosed: 276 Great Barrington Rd (July 9, seller Citizens Bank NA, buyers Jon and Kristin Piasecki); 6 Washington Sq Lot 5 (July 9, seller Carrie Negrini); 9 Silver Mine Ln (July 8, seller Jerri H. Buehler, individually and as trustee); 5 Samantha Ln (July 7, seller Sharon M. Picard, buyer Sharon M. Picard as trustee of a revocable trust); 15 Cross Rd (July 2, sellers Kim Ruffing and Thomas Ruffing, as trustees); 3 Van Schaack Rd (July 2, sellers Brittany Roy and Jesse Roy); 44 West Alford Rd (July 2, seller Marie Rudden, individually and as trustee); 16 Swamp Rd (July 1, sellers Embrace Home Loans Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., buyers Jeanne A. Bill and Ronald E. Bill); and 139 W Center Rd (June 24, sellers Stephanie Sestito Bista and Ujjwul Bista, buyer Everbright LLC).

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No two sales in this period shared a street name, so no street-level cluster emerged. By price tier, only one transaction — 44 Main St at $250,000 — falls into a known tier, in the under-$500,000 range. The remaining nine transactions cannot be sorted into a price tier because no consideration amount was disclosed on the recorded deeds.

MARKET NOTES Several of the period's transfers involved trusts: sellers at 9 Silver Mine Ln, 15 Cross Rd and 44 West Alford Rd were listed as trustees, and the deed at 5 Samantha Ln moved the property from an individual owner into a revocable trust in her own name. Two deeds involved lending or loan-servicing entities as sellers — Citizens Bank NA at 276 Great Barrington Rd and Embrace Home Loans Inc. together with Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. at 16 Swamp Rd — a pattern consistent with bank-related property transfers, though the deed data does not specify the circumstances. One buyer, Everbright LLC at 139 W Center Rd, is a limited liability company rather than an individual. No bedroom, bathroom or square-footage data was available in the deed records for any property, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons could be made, and property type (single-family, condominium or multi-family) was not specified in the dataset.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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