New Bedford Home Sales Span $127,000 To $6.7 Million In July

NEW BEDFORD -- New Bedford's Registry of Deeds recorded 147 property transfers between July 3 and August 1, ranging from a $127,000 sale on Query Street to a pair of $6.7 million transactions on Cove Street. The median sale price across the period was $454,950.

MARKET OVERVIEW The registry recorded 147 total property transfers during the period, though only 76 of those deeds disclosed a sale price -- a common pattern in Massachusetts deed filings that does not, by itself, indicate anything about buyer or seller motivation. Among the 76 disclosed sales, prices ranged from $127,000 to $6,700,000, with a median of $454,950. At 147 total recordings, deed activity was active by raw count, though more than half of all transfers carried no disclosed consideration, limiting how much can be concluded about pricing trends from the full dataset.

TOP SALES The month's highest-priced transactions were two adjoining parcels at 81 Cove St. and 91 Cove St., each sold for $6,700,000 on July 23, with WOOBNB LLC selling both to MHC 390 New Bedford MA LLC. The next-highest sale was 25 Homers Wharf, which sold for $2,000,000 on July 31, with NOR-J Trust selling to RMFP25 LLC. At 503-507 No Front St., JCS Realty LLC sold to DAV Properties LLC for $1,430,000 on July 31. At 42 Fair St., Jose Jovel sold to Edgar Jimon Gonzalez for $739,000 on July 9. And at 72-74 Spring St., Eric O. Aguiar Tr. sold to Nativity Preparatory School New Bedford Inc. for $710,000 on July 17.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Acushnet Avenue saw the most repeat activity, with four transfers recorded along the corridor: 4263 Acushnet Ave. sold for $490,000, 1401 Acushnet Ave. sold for $665,000, and 3500 and 3903 Acushnet Ave. both changed hands without a disclosed price. Bolton Street and Grinnell Street each recorded three transfers: on Bolton, 198 Bolton St. sold for $450,000 while 504 Bolton St. and 385 Bolton St. carried no disclosed price; on Grinnell, 156 Grinnell St. sold for $570,000, 195 Grinnell St. sold for $480,000, and 155 Grinnell St. was not disclosed. Davis Street also had three transfers, led by 305 Davis St. at $650,000. By price tier, of the 76 disclosed sales, 48 sold under $500,000, 24 sold between $500,000 and $1 million, and four sold above $1 million -- the two Cove Street parcels, Homers Wharf and the No Front Street commercial property.

MARKET NOTES A notable share of July's recordings were not open-market sales. Fifteen parcels -- including properties on Ash, Ashley, Cox, Delano, Hillman, Manomet, Purchase, Ruth, Union, Washburn and Weld streets -- transferred from the New Bedford City Treasurer to the New Bedford Redevelopment Authority on July 14, all without a disclosed price, consistent with municipal tax-title or redevelopment processing rather than private sales. Separately, dozens of the undisclosed-price deeds list the same name, or a closely related family name, as both grantor and grantee -- for example, Helder Silva to Helder Silva on Briggs Street, or David J. Monteiro to David J. Monteiro on both Belleville Road and Cottage Street -- consistent with transfers into trusts or among family members rather than arm's-length sales. The month's disclosed sales also included several institutional and non-residential transactions: the Roman Catholic Bishop of Fall River sold 283 Mill St. to the Evangelical Church of Jesus Christ Inc. for $540,000; Nativity Preparatory School New Bedford Inc. both bought the Spring Street property and sold 108 School St. for $375,000; and RWE Clean Energy Asset Holdings Inc. transferred an unaddressed parcel to Dartmouth Business Park Solar LLC, with no price disclosed.

Recorded Deeds

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

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