REMINDER: The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds (and all state and municipal offices) will be closed this coming Monday, April 18, 2016, for...

The city of Lowell has scheduled a tax lien auction for April 27, 2016 at 10 am in the city council chamber at Lowell City Hall. In tod...

Massachusetts General Laws chapter 183, section 5B states  Subject to section 15 of chapter 184, an affidavit made by a person clai...

The Massachusetts Registers and Assistant Registers of Deeds Association met on Tuesday at the Worcester Registry of Deeds to begin the task...

Here are some statistics for electronic recording for the first three months of 2016: In January, 49% of all documents (2130 of 4378) were...

Here is our recording volume of certain document types for March 2016 compared to March 2015, followed by the same comparison for the first ...

A homeowner came to the registry today looking for a subdivision plan that shows his property. I helped him find it, and his deed. He pointe...

The Community Preservation Act was signed into law in Massachusetts about 15 years ago. The purpose of the law was to encourage and to a...

In my preceding post, I discussed the process of selecting the ACS computer system and how that was intended to become the standard system i...

This is a follow-up to Thursday's post about my involvement in a Real Estate Bar Association (REBA) program earlier this week (I wrote t...

Yesterday I traveled to the new headquarters of the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA) at 295 Devonshire St in Boston to pa...

The Massachusetts Trial Court has closed all courts in Middlesex County due to today's snowstorm. This means the Middlesex North Registr...

The number of documents recorded in all major categories was up in 2015 compared to 2014: Deeds increased 5% from 6561 in 2014 to 6913 in ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court just issued its decision in Moronta v Nationstar Mortgage . The case arose when a borrower whose home had be...

The total number of documents recorded in October 2015 was up 9% from October 2014 (5085 in Oct 2015 v 4915 in Oct 2014); Deeds were up 1%...

Yesterday a person tried to record a Purchase and Sale Agreement for property in this registry district. We had to turn them away for two re...

We've encountered some connectivity problems during the past 48 hours. Yesterday at about noon, the MassLandRecords website became inacc...

Here is an article I wrote for the October 2015 edition of the Merrimack Valley Housing Report, a joint venture of UMass Lowell and the Midd...