Dartmouth home prices span wide range as luxury sales lift market median

DARTMOUTH -- A late-summer stretch of Bristol County deed recordings shows Dartmouth property sales ranging from $170,000 to $2.85 million, with the registry's priciest transaction of the period, a $2.85 million sale on High Street, anchoring a month that also included large numbers of family and trust transfers.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 69 deed transfers in Dartmouth between Aug. 21 and Sept. 19. Of those, 30 carried a recorded sale price, 31 were nominal-consideration transfers recorded for $10,000 or less, and eight had no price yet listed, which typically reflects a lag in the registry's data rather than withheld information. Among the 30 priced sales, prices ranged from $170,000 to $2,850,000, with a median of $582,625. With 30 confirmed market sales over roughly four weeks, deed activity appears active by raw count, though the large share of nominal transfers means outright market sales made up less than half of all recorded deeds.

TOP SALES The highest-priced sale was 23 High St., which sold for $2,850,000. Seller HWHL Wyoming Holdings LLC transferred the property to buyer Raymond F. Armstrong. Second was 47 Faunce Corner Rd., which sold for $2,440,000; Federal Realty OP LP sold to North Dartmouth Faunce Corner Mall Road LLC. Third was 58 Naushon Ave., which sold for $2,350,000, with seller Kathleen McQuiggan, trustee, transferring to buyer Sarah Engebretsen. Fourth was 665 Horseneck Rd. at $1,603,000, sold by Edward J. Reilly, trustee, to Duncan McFarland. Fifth was 87 Sol-E-Mar St. at $1,250,000, sold by Fernando J. Barcelos to William Silverstein. Bedroom, bathroom and square-footage figures are not available from deed records.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN No single street dominated the period's sales, but a few streets saw repeat activity. Tenley Avenue had two transfers: a nominal-consideration transfer at 28 Tenley Ave. between two parties sharing the Dacunha name, and a $551,000 sale at 8 Tenley Ave. Medeiros Lane also had two transfers: a nominal transfer at 17 Medeiros Lane and an $849,900 sale at 42 Medeiros Lane. The Faunce Corner corridor produced two of the period's larger transactions, the $2,440,000 sale at 47 Faunce Corner Rd. and a $178,200 sale at 78 Faunce Corner Mall Rd., both involving limited liability companies as buyer or seller. By price tier among the 30 confirmed sales: 11 sold below $500,000, 14 sold between $500,000 and $1 million, and five sold above $1 million.

MARKET NOTES Several of the period's transactions involved limited liability companies rather than individual buyers or sellers, including the Faunce Corner Road and Faunce Corner Mall Road sales noted above, as well as 3 Jacintho St. (sold to State Road Partners LLC), Gaffney Road (sold to GCB Properties LLC), 28 Emmett Ave. (sold to Telegraph Hill Realty Holdings LLC) and 48-4 No Shore Dr. (a nominal transfer to Eranal LLC). These transactions suggest a mix of individual and entity-driven activity in the period's recorded deeds. Separately, 31 of the 69 total deeds, close to half, were nominal-consideration transfers rather than market sales; many listed matching surnames or "TR" and "trust" designations in the grantee name, consistent with transfers within the same family or into a trust, though the data does not indicate why any individual transfer was made. No square-footage data was available in this dataset to assess price-per-square-foot patterns.

Recorded Deeds

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

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