Lender Transfers Dominate Easthampton Deed Records, Leaving Market Prices Undisclosed

EASTHAMPTON -- Deed recordings in Easthampton from June 6 through July 5, 2026, were dominated by lender-involved transfers and title instruments, leaving the period's true residential sales activity largely undocumented in public deed data.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Twelve deeds were recorded during the period, but only three carry disclosed consideration amounts, and all three involve a financial institution as buyer or seller rather than a straightforward transaction between private parties. The $861,966 figure attached to 181 East St. reflects a mortgage lender as grantee, consistent with a loan recording rather than a purchase price. The $317,460 at 234 Loudville Rd. similarly lists a mortgage company as buyer. The $50,000 at 14 Fox Run records a transfer to a credit union. None of the three can be treated as a verified arm's-length sale price. With no confirmed market sale prices in the dataset, a meaningful price range, median, or market trend calculation is not possible for this period.
• TOP SALES
• No arm's-length sales with disclosed prices are available in this dataset. The three entries carrying dollar amounts all involve lenders as the buyer or seller of record, which is consistent with mortgage recordings, collateral transfers, or foreclosure-related deeds rather than conventional home sales. The highest figure recorded, $861,966, is attached to 181 East St., with Movement Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. listed as buyers and Kevin Robert Burke and Shannon Leigh Starkweather Burke as sellers.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• East Street appears twice in the dataset — 59 East St. and 181 East St. — both involving lender parties. Lyman Avenue at No. 31 generated two separate recordings on June 9: one tied to a Declaration of Homestead filing and one reflecting a transfer from Stephen W. Konefal individually to the Stephen W. Konefal Family Revocable Trust, a pattern consistent with estate planning. A Declaration of Homestead filing also appears for 10 First Ave. on the same date. Bank-to-individual transfers — consistent with REO or post-foreclosure sales — appear at 91 Torrey St. (Florence Bank to Tammy L. and David A. Brakey), 8 Emily Lane (Florence Bank to Erwin J. and Marilyn M. Brandt), 20 Reservation Rd. (BankESB to John A. and Margaret A. Holbrook), and a no-address entry (Greenfield Savings Bank to Christopher and Michelle Thompson).
• MARKET NOTES
• The concentration of bank-to-individual transfers — four deeds in which a financial institution is the grantor and private buyers are the grantees — is the most consistent pattern in this dataset. These may reflect REO dispositions or post-foreclosure sales, but sale prices were not disclosed in any of those four records. The two Declaration of Homestead filings and one trust transfer are title instruments rather than sales. The dataset as structured does not support conclusions about market pricing, sales volume, or buyer-seller dynamics for the period.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 8 - Jun 14

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