Aquinnah Registry Data Shows One Conventional Sale in a Seven-Instrument June-July Period

AQUINNAH -- Seven instruments were recorded for Aquinnah properties at the Dukes County Registry of Deeds between June 12 and July 11, 2026, a period that includes mortgage recordings and a municipal lien filing alongside a single clearly identifiable arm's-length property sale. The confirmed sale -- 834 State Rd. for $935,500 -- is the period's defining transaction.

MARKET OVERVIEW Five of the seven recorded instruments carry disclosed consideration amounts, spanning from $72,327 to $2,680,000, with a dataset median of $935,500. The filing mix, however, is unusual for a residential sales roundup: at least three entries name banks or mortgage servicers as grantees, which is characteristic of mortgage instruments rather than property transfers, and one filing is a municipal lien certificate with no associated street address. When those entries are set aside, the dataset narrows to a single conventional sale, one trust-to-trust transfer at price not disclosed, and one municipal acquisition. Aquinnah is a small market, and deed volumes this limited in a single month are not uncommon.

TOP SALES The largest consideration in the dataset, $2,680,000, is recorded against 370 Lighthouse Rd., with David Soergel and Erin McDonnell listed as grantors and Bank of America NA as grantee. Because the named grantee is a financial institution, this filing is consistent with a mortgage recording rather than a market-rate property transfer. The second-largest figure, $2,250,000, is associated with 77 Moshup Trl., where grantees are listed as Rocket Mortgage LLC and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. -- a pairing characteristic of a mortgage deed recording. The period's most clearly identifiable property transfer is 834 State Rd., which conveyed June 26 from James Feiner to trustees Walter G. Ricciardi and Clara F. Ricciardi for $935,500.

NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKDOWN Lighthouse Road and Moshup Trail each account for one high-consideration filing, both with financial institutions as grantees. State Road produced the period's confirmed arm's-length sale at $935,500. Sand Castle Lane recorded a $500,000 instrument on June 15 in which Martha's Vineyard Bank is the named grantee, with Sandcastle Lane Nominee Trust and trustee Coogan Geoghan as grantors -- a pattern consistent with a mortgage recording rather than a property sale. Skye Lane saw the dataset's lowest consideration: a $72,327 conveyance recorded June 12 from the Barbara A. Bassett Revocable Trust to the Town of Edgartown, indicating a municipal acquisition. Old Harvest Way recorded a trust-to-trust transfer on June 29, with Louis F. Reuter IV as grantor and Kari E. Roberts and Jason E. Roberts as trustees of the receiving trust; no consideration was disclosed.

MARKET NOTES The composition of this period's recorded instruments limits straightforward market analysis. Three filings -- 370 Lighthouse Rd., 77 Moshup Trl., and 4 Sand Castle Ln. -- name financial institutions as grantees, and their stated consideration amounts most likely reflect loan values rather than sale prices; including them uncritically in a price range or median calculation overstates market transaction activity. One entry, naming a Certificate of Municipal Liens as grantee against a James Feiner property with no street address recorded, is a lien instrument rather than a deed transfer. The Skye Lane transaction, in which the Town of Edgartown is the grantee at $72,327, may reflect a negotiated acquisition or an eminent domain taking; the deed record alone does not indicate which. The Old Harvest Way transfer between a named grantor and a trustee pair carries no disclosed price, which is common in estate or trust reorganizations. Buyers and sellers seeking to gauge Aquinnah market conditions should give substantially more weight to the 834 State Rd. closing than to the other filings in this period.

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

Jun 29 - Jul 5

Jul 6 - Jul 12

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