Just Three of Ten Oakham Property Sales Disclose Purchase Price

OAKHAM -- Ten properties changed hands in Oakham between July 10 and Aug. 8, according to Worcester County Registry of Deeds records, but a sale price was disclosed for only three of those transactions, ranging from $100,000 to $239,750.

MARKET OVERVIEW Deed records show 10 recorded sales in Oakham over the four-week period. Of those, three listed a consideration amount: $100,000, $125,000 and $239,750. The median of the three disclosed prices is $125,000. The remaining seven transactions did not include a sale price in the recorded deed, which is common for certain types of transfers and does not necessarily indicate the terms of the sale. Because the dataset does not include prior-month or year-over-year figures, the raw count of 10 sales cannot by itself be characterized as active or quiet relative to Oakham's typical pace.

TOP SALES The highest-priced disclosed sale was 47 Ware Corner Road, which sold for $239,750 on July 10. The seller was listed as E Real Estate LLC; no buyer was named in the record. The second-highest disclosed sale, at $125,000, closed July 28 with a seller listed as Zachary Hunt; the deed record did not include a specific street address, listing only "Oakham, MA," nor a buyer name. The third disclosed sale was 420 Barre Road, which sold for $100,000 on July 29. The seller was listed as Susan M. Adamski, trustee, and the buyer as Allcom Credit Union. Beds, baths and square footage are not available from deed records and are omitted.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Ware Corner Road accounted for two of the month's 10 sales: 47 Ware Corner Road, which sold for $239,750, and 78 Ware Corner Road, sold July 23 with no price disclosed; the seller was listed as Lisa Oliver and the buyer as New England Water Heater Co Inc. No other street name repeated among the 10 recorded transfers, which were otherwise spread across Barre Road, Spencer Road, Dennis Whitney Road, New Braintree Road, Coldbrook Road, Skyline Drive and Old Turnpike Road. Among the three sales with disclosed prices, all fell in the under-$500,000 range, the only price tier represented in the available data.

MARKET NOTES Institutional entities, rather than individual owners, appeared as grantor or grantee in at least five of the 10 recorded deeds. Those include Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc and WMC Mortgage Corp as sellers of 116 Spencer Road (July 20, price not disclosed); Rocket Mortgage LLC and U.S. Bank Trust NA, as trustee, as sellers of 69 Dennis Whitney Road (July 16, price not disclosed); UMB Bank NA, as trustee, and PRL Title Trust I as sellers of 291 Coldbrook Road (July 15, price not disclosed); T Bank alongside Philip J. Bartkus as sellers of 70 Skyline Drive (July 10, price not disclosed); and the Adamski Trust and Allcom Credit Union on the 420 Barre Road sale noted above. Two additional sales, 847 New Braintree Road (July 16) and 2266 Old Turnpike Road (July 10), listed individual sellers, James Dieujuste and Joshua and Allison Lowe, respectively, with no price disclosed for either. With price data available for only three of 10 transactions and no square-footage or property-type data in the records, further market analysis, including price-per-square-foot comparisons, is not possible from this dataset.

Recorded Deeds

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

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