Chilmark Deed Data Clouded by Bank Transfers, Trust Moves in June

CHILMARK -- Deed activity in Chilmark from June 6 through July 5, 2026, produced 11 recorded transfers, but only four carried disclosed sale prices — and two of those involved financial institution buyers rather than conventional residential purchasers, complicating a straightforward read of market conditions.

• MARKET OVERVIEW
• Eleven deeds were recorded during the period, but the data picture is narrow: just four of the 11 transfers listed a consideration amount. Among those four, disclosed prices ranged from $200,000 to $3,650,000, with a median of $575,000. However, two of the four disclosed-price transactions list a bank as the buyer — Goldman Sachs Bank USA at 20 Chappaquoit Rd. and Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank at 15 Marsh Rd. — which means those figures may not reflect conventional open-market sales. With seven of 11 transfers carrying no disclosed price and multiple entries appearing to be trust reorganizations or intra-family conveyances, the period does not yield a reliable picture of arm's-length market activity in Chilmark.
• TOP SALES
• The highest disclosed consideration in the period was $3,650,000, recorded June 17 for 20 Chappaquoit Rd. The seller was Richard L. Kauffman; the buyer of record is Goldman Sachs Bank USA. The nature of this transaction — with a financial institution as grantee — is notable and may indicate a lender-related conveyance rather than a standard residential sale; the deed data does not specify further. The next highest disclosed price was $750,000, recorded June 15 for 13 Cemetery Rd., with Nina Harrison listed as seller; no buyer name was available in the deed record. A transfer of 15 Marsh Rd. recorded June 9 listed a consideration of $400,000, with Brian C. Packish as seller and Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank as buyer — again, a financial institution grantee. The lowest disclosed-price transaction was 0 Meetinghouse Rd., which transferred June 23 for $200,000; seller was Rhys Eppich and the George S.B. Morgan Estate, and the buyers were Prudence Morgan Fitts and Prudence M. Eppich.
• NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN
• Middle Road accounts for the most activity of any single street this period, with three separate deed entries: two undeveloped lots — 0 Middle Rd. Lot 2A and 0 Middle Rd. Lot 3A — transferred June 24 from Douglas P. and Caitlin C. Jones to Middle Road LLC, and a third parcel at 91 Middle Rd. transferred the same day from the Middle Road Nominee Trust, with Jones Everett Noteman listed as trustee, also to Middle Road LLC. None of the three carried a disclosed price. The remaining disclosed-price sales — Chappaquoit Rd., Cemetery Rd., Marsh Rd., and Meetinghouse Rd. — are distributed across separate streets with no secondary clustering.
• MARKET NOTES
• Seven of the 11 recorded transfers appear to be non-arm's-length conveyances: three involve the same individual or family reorganizing ownership into a trust or LLC structure (34 Larsen Ln., 4 Pinweed Ln., 9 Moses West Rd.), three involve Middle Road LLC acquiring parcels apparently tied to the same ownership group, and one lists a municipality — Chilmark Town Appeals — as buyer with no street address recorded. Of the four transactions with disclosed prices, two list banks as grantees. Taken together, the data available for this period reflects a high proportion of structural and financial transfers relative to conventional sales, and the disclosed figures should be interpreted with that context.

Recorded Deeds

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

Jun 8 - Jun 14

Jun 15 - Jun 21

Jun 22 - Jun 28

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