REPORT OF BARNSTABLE COUNTY REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY
FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2008

2008 RECORDING VOLUME CONTINUES SLIDE!  

2008 vs. 2007  

There were 89,470 documents and plans recorded at the Registry of Deeds and Land Court in 2008. This represented a 12.3% drop from 2007, a year that saw 102,065 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 . 2006 saw 112,790 documents and plans recorded.  

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 2008 compared to 2007 was down 8%. The total value of sales was down 19.8% from the previous year. The median individual property sales value was down 10.1% from the previous year.  Mortgage activity dropped 20.8% from last year’s levels.

                           John F. Meade

                           Barnstable Register of Deeds

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