Adams June Deed Filings Dominated by Mortgage Recordings, Obscuring True Sales Volume

ADAMS -- Property records filed with the Northern Berkshire Registry of Deeds between June 6 and July 5, 2026, show 13 deed entries for Adams, but a significant portion appear to be mortgage instrument recordings alongside property transfers rather than conventional arm's-length sales, complicating a straightforward reading of market volume.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Of the 13 recorded entries, eight carry disclosed consideration amounts ranging from $25,000 to $202,500, producing a median of $75,000 among those eight transactions. However, several entries list financial institutions — including Greylock Federal Credit Union, Digital Federal Credit Union, Leader Bank NA, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston — as grantees, which is consistent with mortgage recordings rather than outright property purchases. One entry (50 Greylock Ave) transfers between members of the same family with no price disclosed. Buyers and sellers interested in true sales volume should treat the raw count of 13 as an overstatement of conventional transactions for the period. Five entries carried no disclosed sale price and are reported as price not disclosed.
• TOP SALES
• The highest recorded consideration in the period was $202,500 for 45 East St, where Gileade and Melissa Ribeiro appear as sellers and Digital Federal Credit Union and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. appear as grantees — a recording consistent with a mortgage instrument. The transaction at 16 Anthony St recorded at $132,000, with Cheryl J. Lillie and Cheryl J. DeMarisco listed as sellers and Leader Bank NA as buyer, follows a similar pattern. The period's most straightforward apparent purchase transaction was 2 Kittler Ave, which sold for $119,500; sellers Michael L. Trong and Nathan Trong conveyed the property to DNC Real Estate LLC. At 77 Bellevue Ave, Kamrin J. Levesque sold to Adams Community Bank for $80,000, another institutional grantee. The property at 3 Apremont St recorded a $70,000 transfer from Nicole M. Jannicelli to Greylock Federal Credit Union.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• North Summer Street generated multiple entries: two disclosed-price recordings at $40,000 and one additional entry with no price, all appearing to involve the same property at 99 North Summer St in transactions tied to Cody Raymond and Casey Anne Alvarez as sellers and Greylock Federal Credit Union and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston as grantees; these likely represent a sale and related mortgage recorded simultaneously. East Street and Kittler Avenue each produced one entry. Among lower-priced entries, 34 Upton St recorded at $25,000 and 47 Willow St at $50,000, with institutional lenders as grantees in both cases. One entry carried no street address at all and is not mappable from available data.
• MARKET NOTES
• The most notable data pattern in this period is the prevalence of financial institutions as deed grantees, which is consistent with mortgage recordings being captured in the deed index alongside or instead of the underlying conveyance deeds. Readers should consult the full registry record for any property of interest to distinguish the purchase deed from accompanying mortgage instruments. The one clear non-institutional buyer in the disclosed-price transactions is DNC Real Estate LLC at 2 Kittler Ave ($119,500). The same-family transfer at 50 Greylock Ave — from Russell H. Tatro to Johanna Tatro and Russell H. Tatro — carries no consideration and is consistent with an ownership-restructuring or estate-planning transfer; no price is reported. No square footage or property-type data is available from deed records, so price-per-square-foot analysis is not possible.

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.