When you retire and buy your last home, you want it to be perfect. Why not, you worked hard all these years and now is time for the reward.

Many of you want a new home, one where you can make all the selections and have everything you always wanted. You may have heard, there is a lot of new construction in Delaware, especially in Southern [...]

Is your purchasing heavily influenced by advertising? Be careful of that when you are dealing with home builders when buying a new construction home.

Real estate broker, Kathy Sperl-Bell of Active Adults Realty in Delaware explains the ways home builders try to influence you to buy one if their homes. But when they do that, the pressure is [...]

Homeownership among single women continues to rise as women arent waiting for marriage before taking on a mortgage.

According to the National Association of Realtors data, the percentage of homebuyers who are single women has increased over the past three years from 11 percent in 1981 to 18 percent in 2017. When I read [...]

How do Delaware home builders measure up?

What qualities make the best home builders? What happens when they don't measure up? Broker/Owner Kathy Sperl-Bell discusses what makes a builder a favorite and what some home builders do that cause them to not make the [...]

Delaware agriculture produces thriving farmers markets up and down the state bringing organic fruits and vegetables to those shopping locally.

"Farm-to-table" is defined as the food on the table comes directly from a specific farm, without going through a store, market, or distributor. By shopping one of the numerous Delaware farmers market [...]

See just how Pet-Friendly it is here in Coastal Delaware

Where can you dine out with your dogs? Broker/Owner Kathy Sperl-Bell highlights many of the great restaurants you can bring out beloved pet along with you to eat.

Where can I dine with my dogs at the beach in Delaware? It's all about the dogs isn't it? People wanna take their dogs [...]

Clearing up confusion on agency relationships. especially about Dual Agency in Delaware.

When you buy a home, be very aware of who represents you when in a real estate transaction. Is Dual Agency even Legal? Who looks out for your best interest? Watch below to find out [...]

Now is that rare time when you can sell your home and buy anew home and win on both ends.

Where do our buyers come from? More every year are moving here to Delaware from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and even more are planning to do so when they retire.

When the housing market crashed in 2007/2008, plans changed. People planning for [...]

Are there differences in closing costs between new homes and resales? Kathy Sperl-Bell, of Active Adults Realty in Delaware, discusses the different fees that make up the closing costs when you buy a home. Would you save more if you buy resale? The answer may shock [...]

Its important to set the expectations for working with your REALTOR and understand your agents obligations.

One of the first questions many sellers ask when interviewing Listing Agents is Do you have buyers for our home?

A better question to ask is What will you do to market our home so every agent with a potential buyer for our home will want to show [...]