For the third time during my tenure as register of deeds I've been able to say "World Champion Boston Red Sox."  That's a ...

The Globe today reports on hearings held yesterday by the state legislature on problems that exist in a new online system for submitting un...

An attorney here today on an unrelated transaction shared an interesting situation.  He represents the seller of a property that lies partly...

The New York Times reports today that a jury in a US District Court in Manhattan found Bank of America liable for bad mortgages that were o...

Yesterday afternoon I received the following press release from the Northeast Association of Realtors.  The topic is recent trends in home s...

Besides maintaining official copies of land records for land located in the registry district, the registry of deeds also collects revenue f...

An attorney who was recording documents this afternoon volunteered that new flood insurance rules and policies that are just now going into ...

Yesterday I was the guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Northeast Association of Realtors at their Westford headquarters.  Advertise...

Last night the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments (NMCOG) celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Westford Regency Hotel.  Consisting ...

Yesterday afternoon Harry Spence, the Court Administrator of the Massachusetts Trial Court, visited Lowell tour the Superior and District C...

Today's Globe has a story about the challenges facing the city of Worcester as it tries to revive its downtown.  Much of the activity i...

Year # of efiles % of all docs Total Recordings 2005 1057 1% 87...

This coming Monday, October 14, 2013, is Columbus Day so the registry of deeds will be closed.  The office will also be closed on Monday, ...

Electronic recording continues to be a big part of our overall volume of document recording.  In September, we recorded a total of 5089 docu...

Today I traveled to the Billerica Council on Aging to talk about the homestead.  More than 30 people attended and we had a lively discussion...

Here are the recording statistics for September 2013 compared to September 2012: There was a 24% increase in the number of deeds recorded,...

The number of key documents we recorded in August was down from both August of last year and from July of this year, so we're keeping cl...

The registry of deeds collects a variety of recording fees, surcharges and taxes and passes them all along to the general fund of the Common...

The Globe yesterday reported on a growing trend in Massachusetts of courthouses imposing outright bans on the carrying of cell phones withi...

Electronic recording continues to be a growing part of registry operations, accounting for 37% of all documents recorded in August (of 5785 ...