REPORT OF BARNSTABLE COUNTY REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY
FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2007

2007 RECORDING VOLUME CONTINUES SLIDE!  

2007 vs. 2006  

There were 102,065 documents and plans recorded at the Registry of Deeds and Land Court in 2007. This represented a 9.5% drop from 2006, a year that saw 112,790 documents and plans recorded at the registry of deeds and Land Court . This past year saw a continuation of a trend that began to materialize in 2004. After setting record recording numbers in 2003 (over 200,049 documents and plans recorded), 2004 saw a significant drop in the volume of recordings (138,119).  2005 saw a total of 124,763 documents and plans recorded at the registry and in the Land Court .  

2003, 2002, 1998, 2004 and 1986 (in that order) remain the five busiest years in our 300+ year history.  

For all transactions over $50,000 the volume of real estate sales for 2007 compared to 2006 was down 1.2%. The total value of sales was down 6% from the previous year. The median individual property sales value was down 5.5% from the previous year.  Mortgage activity dropped 17% from last year’s levels.

                           John F. Meade

                           Barnstable Register of Deeds

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