Christine Davis

How to choose a REALTOR� when you are out of State

When you are ready to buy or sell a home in your hometown, you probably already know a few REALTORS. You may have worked with a REALTOR once or twice in your past or perhaps you know someone in your circle of friends, neighborhood or church that you think highly [...]

New Castle County Real Estate Update Fall 2014

New Castle County Real Estate Neighborhood News-Fall 2014

By Bill Bell

The northernmost Delaware county is New Castle. It is closest to airports, Amtrak, and Route 95 with easy access to the major cities within the Mid Atlantic Region. A popular choice for people from NJ, PA and MD, it is not where you will find the least expensive homes. [...]

Home Sales Rose In September!

U.S. homes sold at a faster ratein September than any other time this year, a recent reportfrom the National Association of Realtors said.

Evidently, sales of existing homes increased 2.4 percent from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.17 million.

Experts are saying that this increase is a great sign that the housing market is picking up and moving past the slowdown that started in [...]

Kent County Real Estate Update Fall 2014

Kent County Real Estate Neighborhood News-Fall 2014

By Bill Bell

Kent County is home to the state capital Dover, Dover Downs and the Dover Air Force Base. In this area, you will find a good choice of smaller 55+active adult communities and the prices can be significantly lower than in the areas to the north or [...]

Sussex County Real Estate Update Fall 2014

Sussex County Real Estate Neighborhood News-Fall 2014

By Kathy Sperl-Bell

Sussex County, a.k.a. "Coastal Delaware," is where Boomers look to move for not only a primary residence in retirement but often for a second home/vacation home even while they are still working. This is the fastest growing county with the smallest population of the [...]

Compare Buying a Pre-Owned Luxury Car to an existing Luxury Home

New home sales people refer to existing homes for sale as used homes, as in

Why would you buy a used home when you can buy a new home with everything you want?

I always found that reference rather self serving but then I thought about buying a car and realized that I can use the same thought process to favor buying an existing home.

A few [...]

Excellent News for Home Buyers: US Prices Stabilizing

If youve been weighing whether now is the right time to enter the local housing market as a home buyer, we have some news to share with you that will help you decide.

According to a recent report from real estate data provider CoreLogic, U.S. home price gains are slowing down, despite an increase during the month of August.

This is great news for home buyers because it means that you have a fantastic opportunity to get a reasonable price on your next home before prices continue to [...]

Can You Handle The Truth or Should We Tell You What You Want To Hear?

Deciphering Builder Speak: Can we talk?

Homes starting in the Low $300s!

Luxury townhomes in the high $200s!

Does that mean you can buy a new home in that community between $300,000 and $325,000? Probably not.

Can you handle the truth?

If I tell you that you will end up spending 30% or more above the base model price of that new home, will you believe [...]

Buying A House? Why So Much Paperwork?

"I'm getting a Mortgage, why so much paperwork?"

Gail Alm, Mortgage Planning Specialist at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. in Rehoboth Beach offered this information courtesy of Keeping Current Matters.

We are often asked why there is so much paperwork mandated by the bank for a mortgage loan application when buying a home today. It seems that the bank needs to know [...]

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