Yesterday I attended the 2018 Spring Conference of the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood, ...

Today's New York Times business section gives prominent placement to a story informing us that credit card signatures are about to beco...

One of our new initiatives at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds is to utilize online mapping tools to display real estate data. To illus...

Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will open at 10am tomorrow, Wednesday, March 14, 2018 due to snowstorm.

The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds (and all state courts in Mass) will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, due to impending wint...

Due to overnight snowstorm, the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will open at 10am on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Here's the official no...

Next Monday, January 16, 2018, is Martin Luther King Day which is a state and federal holiday. The Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will be...

Last week I wrote a blog post with recording statistics for the entire Middlesex North Registry of Deeds district for all of 2017 and for j...

All deeds recorded at the registry of deeds must state the amount of consideration paid, so the registry has a record of every sale made for...

Just got word via Trial Court Twitter account that all courthouses in Middlesex County will open at 10am tomorrow, Friday, January 5, 2017. ...

Just got word that the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds will be closed all day tomorrow due to impending blizzard. Check back here for up...

Forecasters are calling for a blizzard to arrive in eastern Massachusetts sometime late this evening/early tomorrow morning with an expected...

Here are the number of recordings of major document types at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in 2017 with 2016 totals included for con...

Ten years ago, I composed a document that described the foreclosure process in Massachusetts. Much has changed since then, so I finally go a...

The numbers of deeds, mortgages and total documents recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds in October 2017 were down considerably...

I recently came across a list I made in 2014 titled "Future Capabilities of Registry of Deeds." Here is what it said: Make all s...

The Massachusetts Registers of Deeds Association will release a new version of the Deed Indexing Standards on January 1, 2018. The current 2...

Recently someone asked me if we see many deeds of distribution here at the registry of deeds. We don't. I scrolled through nearly 1500 d...

As September comes to an end, a few holidays start popping up on our calendar. Here is how they will affect hours of operation at the Middle...

The September 2017 edition of the Merrimack Valley Housing Report was just delivered to subscribers by email. This monthly electronic n...