Ayer home sales cluster between $500,000 and $1 million in past month

AYER -- Twenty property transfers were recorded at the South Middlesex Registry of Deeds for Ayer between June 26 and July 25, with sale prices ranging from $317,500 to $956,197 among the properties where a price was disclosed.

MARKET OVERVIEW

Of the 20 recorded transfers, 12 included a disclosed consideration amount. Prices among those 12 ranged from $317,500 to $956,197, with a median sale price of $595,000. A raw count of 20 transfers in a four-week window indicates a period of consistent deed activity, though eight of the filings -- 40 percent of the total -- carried no disclosed sale price, limiting how much can be concluded about pricing trends from the full dataset.

TOP SALES

The month's highest-priced transaction was 9 Gaskins Lane, which sold for $956,197 on July 2. Seller Ayer Development LLC transferred the property to buyers Paul Redder and Mary Garber.

71 W Main St. sold for $775,000 on June 30. West Main Street LLC sold the property to Viviane C. Pinto.

36 Norwood Ave. sold for $710,000 on July 8. Sellers Vikram Venkatadri and Sreedevi Srinivasan transferred the property to Bryan A. Yergeau.

5 Juniper Ridge, Unit 16, sold for $680,000 on June 29. Sellers Andrzej Muszynski and Urszula Muszynska sold the unit to Michael and Dianne Sherman.

14 Shaker Pond Road, Unit 14, sold for $655,000 on June 26. Sellers Haroun Hassan and Sarah Buliibwa transferred the unit to Jian Jiang and Xia Man.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN

Two streets saw multiple transfers during the period. Oak Ridge Drive recorded two sales: 117 Oak Ridge Drive sold for $575,000 on July 10, while 135 Oak Ridge Drive changed hands June 29 with no price disclosed, as the seller transferred the property into the Perez Family Trust. Sandy Pond Road also saw two transfers: 44 Sandy Pond Road sold for $590,000 on July 9, and a condominium unit at 23 Arcadia Circle, addressed at 75 Sandy Pond Road, transferred June 30 with no price disclosed.

By price tier among the 12 disclosed sales, one fell under $500,000 -- 18 Westford Road at $317,500, recorded June 30. The remaining 11 disclosed sales fell between $500,000 and $1 million, with no disclosed sales exceeding $1 million. The Gaskins Lane sale, at $956,197, came closest to that threshold.

MARKET NOTES

Six of the 20 recorded transfers were transfers into family trusts, in each case with no sale price disclosed: 3 Whitcomb Ave. (Ford to Ford family trust), 12 Robbins Road (Sousa to Sousa family trust), 55 Littleton Road Unit 8A (Hayes to Hayes Family Trust), 135 Oak Ridge Drive (Perez to Perez Family Trust), 23 Arcadia Circle Unit 20 (Bates to Julie Lebert Bates Revocable Trust) and 28 Mulberry Circle (Andrews to Andrews Family Revocable Trust). These accounted for six of the eight transfers lacking a disclosed price.

The dataset also included four condominium unit sales -- at Arcadia Circle, Littleton Road, Juniper Ridge and Shaker Pond Road -- alongside single-family home transfers, indicating a mix of property types among the month's activity. No square footage or bedroom/bathroom data was available in the deed records, so no price-per-square-foot comparisons can be made.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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