The Gallagher Terminal on Thorndike Street, just across the South Common from the Superior Courthouse and the Registry of Deeds, begins a ma...

Today's Globe has a story about how new Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has added a couple of big screen computer monitors to the mayor's ...

Recording stats for the first half of March show that mortgage activity is still extremely sluggish.  For the first two weeks of March in 20...

March 17 is still recognized as a holiday in Suffolk County, I believe, and that holiday is Evacuation Day which has nothing (directly) to d...

The percentage of documents being recorded electronically is down from the same time last year.  I don't think the decline is related to...

The New York Times is reporting that the ranking members of the Senate Banking Committee, Tim Johnson, a Democrat from South Dakota, and Mik...

The New York Times reports today in its business section about litigation brought in a Massachusetts state court by an investment firm agai...

The number of mortgages recorded each month, which had averaged nearly 1,300 from January 2012 through August 2013, suddenly dropped in...

 The following question was posted as a comment to a recent blog post: How does running the daily index work with electronic reco...

We've used electronic recording here with great success since 2005.  Last summer we hit a high point of our volume when more than 38% of...

Sorry for the brief absence from blogging.  I'll try to be more consistent in the coming days. February is always a slow month for rec...

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...

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 do...

Due to today's snowstorm, all courts in Massachusetts are closed today, February 5, 2014.  Since the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds i...

Here are the numbers for major document types recorded in January 2014 compared to January 2013: The number of deeds recorded in January 2...

There are three methods for recording documents available to customers.  They are walk-in recording, electronic recording, and mailed-in rec...

The registry of deeds collects revenue from a variety of sources.  Recording fees and the deed excise tax are the two big ones.  Tracking ho...

Even though we stopped making physical record books in 2001, we still keep track how many "books" we create each year.  In 2013, t...

According to a story in today's Globe, married couples account for 62% of all homes that are jointly owned.  Unmarried couples account f...

The total number of documents we recorded in 2013 (67,001) was down 6% from the number recorded in 2012 (71,596).  A major factor in that ch...