Oak Bluffs June Deed Records Show No Confirmed Arm's-Length Home Sales

OAK BLUFFS -- Deed activity recorded at the Dukes County Registry of Deeds for the period of June 6 through July 5, 2026, shows eight instruments filed involving Oak Bluffs properties, but none of the transactions in the dataset appears to represent a conventional arm's-length sale between a private seller and a private buyer.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Eight instruments were recorded during the period, with consideration amounts disclosed on five. However, a review of buyer names and transaction structures indicates the disclosed figures do not represent open-market purchase prices. Three transactions list Martha's Vineyard Bank as grantee, consistent with foreclosure proceedings or deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure. One transaction lists Finance of America Reverse LLC as grantee, consistent with a reverse mortgage instrument. One lists BayCoast Mortgage Company LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as grantees, consistent with a mortgage recording rather than a property conveyance. Two additional transfers show sellers conveying property to themselves or their own family trusts, which is a standard estate-planning mechanism. One instrument lists "Certificate of Municipal Liens" as grantee with no street address, which is a municipal document, not a property sale. Because none of the eight instruments reflects a confirmed market transaction, no meaningful price range, median, or market-activity assessment can be derived from this period's data.
• TOP SALES
• No arm's-length sales with disclosed purchase prices were identified in this dataset. The five consideration amounts present — $1,357,500 at 59 Columbian Ave., $1,113,557 at 13 W. Meadow Lane, $562,500 at 1 Pease Ave., $110,000 at 22 School House Village, and $100,000 at 9 Puritan Drive — are associated with mortgage instruments, reverse mortgage instruments, or bank-grantee transfers and do not represent market sale prices.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• Properties recorded during the period are spread across six addresses: Puritan Drive, County Road, West Meadow Lane, Farm Pond Road, Columbian Avenue, Pease Avenue, and School House Village. The bank-grantee transfers are distributed across Puritan Drive, Pease Avenue, and School House Village. The intra-family trust transfers appear at County Road and Farm Pond Road. The reverse mortgage instrument is recorded at Columbian Avenue.
• MARKET NOTES
• The concentration of three Martha's Vineyard Bank grantee transactions within a single recording period is a data point worth noting; deed records alone do not establish whether these represent contested foreclosures, voluntary deeds-in-lieu, or other bank-related conveyances. Readers seeking market sales data for this period should consult the registry directly for additional recorded deeds that may not have been included in this dataset, or check subsequent recording periods when any pending transactions close.