Merrimac Home Prices Span $480,000 To $1.04 Million In Recorded Sales

MERRIMAC -- Fifteen property transfers were recorded at the Essex County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds for Merrimac between June 26 and July 25, with disclosed sale prices ranging from $480,000 to $1,041,000. Eight of the 15 recorded deeds included a sale price; the rest were transfers that did not list consideration, a pattern common with trust and family transfers.

MARKET OVERVIEW Of the 15 deeds recorded in the period, eight disclosed a sale price. Those disclosed prices ranged from $480,000 to $1,041,000, with a median of $690,000. The remaining seven transfers listed no consideration amount, meaning price not disclosed. Based on the raw count alone, 15 recorded deeds in a single month is a notable volume of activity for the town, though more than half involved no publicly recorded price, limiting how much can be said about pricing trends from this period's data alone.

TOP SALES The period's highest-priced transaction was 12 Poplar Hill Cir Lot 6, which sold for $1,041,000 on July 15; the seller was Jonathan Z. MacMartin and the buyer was Daniel P. McDermott. The second-highest sale was 5 W Hadley Rd Lot B2 at $989,000, also recorded July 15, sold by the Lancey Family Revocable Trust to Eric Rajkowski. At 20 Winter St, the property sold for $812,000 on July 8, with Jannine Marie Vaciliou as seller and John A. Welch Jr., listed as trustee, as buyer. 4 Adams St sold for $755,000 on July 15, transferred from the Ton New Irr Tru to J.M. Bertholdt. Rounding out the top five, 20 Freedom Way Un 20 sold for $625,000 on July 15, with Ann Belliveau as seller and Kenneth Kirk as buyer.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Two of the 15 recorded deeds were on Freedom Way: 19 Freedom Way Un 19, a transfer with no disclosed price recorded July 17, and 20 Freedom Way Un 20, which sold for $625,000 on July 15. Both list unit numbers, indicating condominium-style ownership. By price tier among the eight disclosed sales, one fell under $500,000 (39 High St, $480,000), four fell between $500,000 and $1 million (2 North St, 5 Fairfield Ave, 4 Adams St and 20 Freedom Way Un 20, plus 20 Winter St at $812,000), and two exceeded $1 million in combined value when counting the two highest sales at $1,041,000 and $989,000. No other street had more than one recorded transfer in this period.

MARKET NOTES Eight of the 15 recorded deeds this period involved a grantor and grantee sharing a surname or a transfer into or within a trust: 9 Bisson Ln (Calandrella to Calandrella), the record at "SEE RECORD" (Scott K. Ruane to Scott K. Ruane, Tr.), 19 Freedom Way Un 19 (Cynthia A. Estella to the Cynthia A. Estella Trust), 5 Alnette Rd (Shawn P. Nicklas to Shawn P. Nicklas), 19 Willowdale Estates Dr and 4-6 Pleasant St (both David D. Lozier to David D. Lozier, Tr., recorded the same day, July 9), 49 W Shore Rd (Hether Ide, Tr., to Hether M. Ide, Tr.), and 2 North St Pcl B (Marie J. Mahoney to Sean Philip Mahoney, the only one of these eight with a disclosed price, $585,000). None of the deed records in this data set included bedroom, bathroom or square-footage figures, and the data does not distinguish single-family from condominium or multi-family property types beyond unit and lot designations noted above. The lowest disclosed sale, $480,000 for 39 High St, involved the Merrimacport United Methodist Church as seller and Juliann LeBlanc as buyer.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jul 6 - Jul 12

Jul 13 - Jul 19

Jul 20 - Jul 26

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