Here are my choices for the top registry-related events of 2013.  Top Ten Registry Events of 2013 The Registry of Deeds Modernization a...

Continuing our walk down memory lane, here's what I posted back in December 2006 as the Top Ten Registry Events of that year: 10 Sev...

I created this blog on December 23, 2003 making yesterday the tenth birthday of the LowellDeeds blog.  Since December of 2005, I've publ...

Drones - remotely piloted aircraft - have been much in the news these past few years as weapons systems in the war on terror.  However, like...

There are still six recording days left in 2013 but I was curious to see where our total number of documents recorded for this year compares...

With Christmas fast approaching, I wanted to remind everyone that we will be closed on both Christmas and New Years Day but we will be open ...

Chapter 165 of the Acts of 2012 created a Registry of Deeds Modernization and Efficiency Commission that consisted of representatives of the...

Yesterday was a meeting of the Technology Subcommittee of the Registers of Deeds Association.  One of many items discussed was microfilm and...

Each Monday the Merrimack Valley Housing Court comes to the Lowell Superior Court for a session.  The check-in line at 8:30 am is always out...

The decline in the number of refinancings has also dragged down our volume of electronic recording since the majority of mortgages are now r...

Here are the recording statistics for November 2013 compared to the same month in 2012: Deeds were down 9%, dropping from 537 in 2012 to 4...

We've noticed that the number of mortgages being recorded has declined substantially this fall as the refinancing market has slowed.  So...

The Northeast Association of Realtors shared the following report on rising median home prices within its are which stretches from Boxford t...

Even though the local real estate market has slowed considerably since the end of the summer, the number of foreclosures from September 1, 2...

A lawyer recording documents this morning asked about the state of real estate.  I gave my standard reply these days: the market has been le...

Richard P. Howe Sr. is my dad.  Yesterday the city of Lowell and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (by Mass Highway) dedicated a new brid...

Halfway through each month we look at the recording statistics for the first two weeks of the month and compare them to the same period from...

The Globe today has an editorial endorsing a bill pending in the state legislature that would update our public records law.  About once ea...

Monday's Boston Globe had an Op-Ed by Melissa Threadgill, a former State House staffer and current student at the Kennedy School of Gov...

For many years we've explored ways to link the record for a particular property on the local assessor's website to the corresponding...