Beverly Home Sales Cluster Near $800,000 Median in Latest Deed Filings

BEVERLY -- Fourteen property transfers were recorded in Beverly during the period Aug. 14 through Sept. 12, with disclosed sale prices ranging from $30,000 to $920,000 and a median of $784,000 among the 10 transactions that listed a price.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The Essex County Registry of Deeds recorded 14 Beverly property transfers during the period, though the dated entries in this dataset cluster within a three-day span, Sept. 9 through Sept. 11. Of the 14 sales, 10 included a disclosed consideration amount; the remaining four were transfers into or within family trusts and did not list a price. Disclosed prices ranged from $30,000 to $920,000, with a median of $784,000. Whether this represents an active or quiet period cannot be determined from sales count alone without a prior-period comparison, which is not included in this dataset.

TOP SALES

The highest-priced transaction was 6 Gardner St, Lot 4, which sold for $920,000 on Sept. 9; Kevin F. Hobin sold the property to the Jeffrey R. Griswold 2023 Revocable Trust. The next-highest sale was 50 Balch St, Unit 203, at $882,000 on Sept. 11, sold by 50 Balch LLC to John W. Gagnon. At 308 Essex St, the property sold for $850,000 on Sept. 10, with Joseph P. O'Brien, as trustee, selling to Salvatore DeFrancesco. A unit at 50 Balch St, Unit 315, sold for $825,000 on Sept. 10, with 50 Balch LLC selling to Kevin Hobin. Rounding out the top five, 50 Balch St, Unit 305, sold for $793,000 on Sept. 11, with 50 Balch LLC selling to Laura DiChiara, as trustee. Bed, bath and square footage figures were not available in the deed data for any of these properties.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Three units at 50 Balch Street accounted for the largest street-level cluster in the dataset: Unit 203 ($882,000), Unit 305 ($793,000) and Unit 315 ($825,000), all sold by the same entity, 50 Balch LLC, within the same two-day window. By price tier among the 10 disclosed sales, two fell below $500,000: 18 Sturtevant St, Lot 22, at $385,000, and 922 Hale St at $30,000. The remaining eight disclosed sales, spanning 23 Washington Street, 34 Kernwood Avenue, 1 Virginia Avenue, 308 Essex Street, 6 Gardner Street and the three 50 Balch Street units, fell between $500,000 and $1 million. No sale in the dataset exceeded $1 million.

MARKET NOTES

Several transactions in the dataset involved transfers within a family or into a trust bearing the same name as the seller, rather than a sale to an unrelated buyer. These included 23 Washington St, Unit 5 (Jessica DeVito to Anthony DeVito), 12 Warren St, Lot 47 (Mark A. Haberland to the Beth E. Haberland Living Trust), 38 Dunham Rd, Unit 309 (Merelyn Smith to the Smith Dunham Road Realty Trust), 2 Haskell St, Lot 2 (Matthew J. Green to Matthew J. Green, as trustee) and 9 Bancroft Ave, Lot 5 (Christine M. Sciola to Christine M. Sciola, as trustee). All four transactions without a disclosed price fall into this category. Separately, 50 Balch LLC appeared as the seller in three of the period's transactions, all condominium units at the same address. The dataset's addresses frequently included unit or lot designations, consistent with condominium-style filings, though the deed records do not specify property type directly. Square footage was not available for any property, so no price-per-square-foot comparison can be made.

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.