Newbury's disclosed home sales top out at $1.3 million in July filings

NEWBURY -- Fourteen property transfers were recorded in Newbury during the four weeks ending July 25, ranging from a $60,000 lot sale to a $1,295,000 sale, according to Essex County (Southern District) Registry of Deeds records. Exactly half of the filings disclosed a sale price; the other half were transfers among family members or into trusts.

MARKET OVERVIEW

The 14 recorded deeds carried disclosed prices in seven cases, ranging from $60,000 to $1,295,000, with a median of $615,000 among those seven. The registry does not require a stated consideration on every deed, so the remaining seven transfers -- all involving a buyer and seller sharing the same surname -- were recorded without a sale price. With only half of filings reporting a price, the recorded data offers a partial picture of value trends for the period; the raw count of 14 transfers cannot be characterized as active or quiet without a prior-period baseline, which was not provided.

TOP SALES

The period's highest-priced transaction was a property recorded in the deed only as "See Record" in Newbury, which sold for $1,295,000 on July 8; John R. Clifford was the seller and Michael Bilouris the buyer. The second-highest sale was 79 Scotland Rd, Lot 1, which sold for $1,125,000 on July 16, with Alyssa P. Goodson as seller and Erin Olearly as buyer. At 27 Central St, the property sold for $830,000 on July 17, with Harold R. Rogers as seller and Angela Lord as buyer. At 5 Cinder Ave, Lot 18, the sale price was $615,000 on July 15, with George L. Simas III, trustee, as seller and 5 Cinder Avenue CF LLC as buyer. Rounding out the top five, 7 Davoli Way, Lot 55, sold for $590,000 on July 15, with Elizabeth L. Black, trustee, as seller and Phyllis Elizabeth Boot as buyer.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

High Road saw two transfers in the period -- 36 High Rd (July 15) and 239 High Rd (July 9) -- both recorded without a disclosed price and both involving a buyer and seller sharing the same surname. No other street had more than one recorded transfer. By price tier among the seven disclosed sales: one transfer was under $500,000 (27 Old Pine Isl Rd, Lot A, at $60,000); four fell between $500,000 and $1 million (11 Newbury Neck Rd at $580,000, 7 Davoli Way at $590,000, 5 Cinder Ave at $615,000, and 27 Central St at $830,000); and two exceeded $1 million (79 Scotland Rd at $1,125,000 and the July 8 sale recorded as "See Record" at $1,295,000).

MARKET NOTES

A clear pattern separates the two halves of this period's filings. All seven transfers with a disclosed sale price involved a buyer and seller with different surnames: Fowler to Bradley, Rogers to Lord, Goodson to Olearly, Simas to 5 Cinder Avenue CF LLC, Black to Boot, Clifford to Bilouris, and Kehoe to Christopherson. All seven transfers without a disclosed price involved a buyer and seller sharing the same surname or the same individual moving title into a trust: Raimo to Raimo trustee, Lyons to Lyons trustee, Dullea to Dullea Family Trust, Murawski trustee to Murawski, Luedke to Luedke trustee, Barakis trustee to Barakis trustee, and Cockrill to Cockrill. The registry data does not speculate on why these two groups line up this way, but the correlation between disclosed pricing and unrelated buyer-seller names is consistent across the full sample.

Separately, eight of the 14 recorded addresses carry a lot or unit designation (Basin Front Drive, Elm Street, Smith Street, Cricket Lane, Scotland Road, Cinder Avenue, Davoli Way and Old Pine Island Road), suggesting a mix of condominium or subdivided-lot property types alongside standalone single-family addresses such as Newbury Neck Road, Old Rowley Road, Central Street and the two High Road parcels. Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures are not captured in deed records and are not available for this report.

Recorded Deeds

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

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Jul 20 - Jul 26

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