Closing early on Tues, Feb 18, 2014

Due to heavy snow, all courts in Lowell will close today at 3pm.  This includes the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds.  We will be open at 8:30 am tomorrow for normal operations.

Busiest days of 2013

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds recorded 67,001 documents in 2013 which was 6% fewer than the 71,596 recorded in 2012.  Of the 2013 documents, 38% were recorded electronically which was an increase from the 34% rate of electronic recording in 2012.

What about individual days?  In terms of the number of documents recorded, here are the five busiest days of 2013:

1. June 28, 2013 (Friday) - 643 docs
2. April 16, 2013 (Tuesday) - 548 docs
3. July 1, 2013 (Monday) - 477 docs
4. May 31, 2013 (Friday) - 475 docs
5. September 30, 2013 (Monday) - 460 docs

Fore electronic recording, here are the five days with the highest number of documents recorded electronically (the percentage shown in parenthesis indicates the percentage of all documents recorded that day represented by the e-files).

1. June 28, 2013 (Friday) - 223 docs (35% of total for day)
2. April 16, 2013 (Tuesday) - 208 docs (38% of total for day)
3. February 11, 2013 (Monday) - 175 documents (58% of total for day)
4. January 28, 2013 (Monday) - 171 documents (38% of total for day)
5. July 1, 2013 (Monday) - 165 documents (35% of total for day)

Middlesex North Registry of Deeds closed today

Due to today's snowstorm, all courts in Massachusetts are closed today, February 5, 2014.  Since the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds is located within a courthouse, we will be closed too.  Here is the link to the Massachusetts Trial Court page with this announcement.

January recording statistics

Here are the numbers for major document types recorded in January 2014 compared to January 2013:

The number of deeds recorded in January 2014 was up 3% from January 2013, rising from 450 to 462.

The number of mortgages was down 59%, dropping from 1384 to 570.

The number of foreclosure deeds was down 47%, dropping from 19 to 10.

The number of orders of notice was down 81%, dropping from 74 to 14.

The overall number of documents recorded was down 35%, dropping from 6064 to 3919.