The Registry of Deeds will be closed on Monday, April 21, 2015 in recognition of the Patriot's Day holiday.

That's what the Boston Globe called the 19-year, $75 million effort of the Massachusetts Trial Court to computerize its operations.  A s...

The month of March continued our streak of electronic recording volume in excess of 40% of all recordings.  Electronically recorded document...

Earlier this year, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office reached a settlement with Bank of America, Chase, Citi and Wells Fargo th...

Today's Globe has a story about how computer hackers were able to insert a virus into the computer system of the nearby Tewksbury Polic...

A query from a major national lender recently found its way to me.  Here's the question posed: Must a Schedule A (property descriptio...

The end of March recording statistics have some good news.  Total document recordings and mortgages are both up substantially over the numbe...

Snowy weather must be conducive to electronic recording.  For 2014, 38% of all documents recorded at Middlesex North came through electronic...

We've received a number of phone calls at the registry of deeds from individuals who own condominiums that have been damaged by water in...

The Trial Court has closed all courts in Middlesex County (among others) for tomorrow, so the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will be clos...

Last evening the Massachusetts Trial Court announced that all courts in the state except those on the Cape and Islands would be closed all d...

A report on CBS Boston yesterday listed Lowell as the hottest town in Massachusetts in terms of an increase in volume of home sales from 2...

Since we began writing this blog back in 2003, we've made a point of doing at least one post devoted to each professional sports champio...

Here are the top five sales, measured by the consideration stated on the deed, that took place in the Middlesex North District during 2014: ...

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds reopened this morning after being closed for two days due to the recent blizzard.  Snow began falling ...

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will be closed all day tomorrow, January 28, 2015, due to the blizzard.  The registry will reopen on T...

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will be closed all day on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 due to the impending blizzard.  No decision has ...

Yesterday was my 20th anniversary as Register of Deeds of the Middlesex North District.  It was on January 5, 1995 that I took the oath of o...

The number of documents recorded electronically dropped in 2014 compared to 2013, but that was a function of the drop in overall reco...

Welcome to 2015.  Here's a look back at our document recording stats for 2014 compared to the 2013 numbers: Deeds were down 2%, from 6...