Today's new homes offer more benefits than ever before. I find that a large percentage of our Baby Boomer clients absolutely want to purchase a new home. Here's a quick list of the Top 10 reasons why so many home buyers prefer new homes to existing [...]
The role of the Listing Agent and that of the Buyer Agent are very different. The work of a Listing Agent is to be your Sales and Marketing Manager. The goal is to sell your home for the highest price possible in the shortest period of time. Marketing is the key to success because it creates demand and reaches way beyond our own individual [...]
Milton, Delaware 19968 I am a big fan of CNBC. Over the years, certain advice is repeated by big name guests and I think it also applies to real estate.What I hear guests like Warren Buffet and many others say is that the best time to buy (a stock, a home, an investment) is when everyone else is afraid to. Quite a few of our clients who [...]
These have been challenging times for anyone selling a home. We understand, as REALTORS we have had our share of selling our own property during this buyers market and it wasnt [...]
Listing a vacant property is always a challenge. Freshly painted white walls and clean beige carpeting still does not photograph very well. I had heard about Virtual Staging and decided to give it a try when I listed a beautiful but empty condo last [...]
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to search for homes in Delaware. Instead, I will tell you how to search the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) yourself using the real data from the MLS that is always current and [...]
One of the biggest reasons homeowners refinance their mortgage is to obtain a lower interest rate and lower monthly payments. By refinancing, the borrower pays off their existing mortgage and replaces it with a new one. This can often be accomplished with a no-points no-fees loan program, which [...]
Everyone wants to know. As a REALTOR, when I go to a party or the grocery store or a local Happy Hour, everyone wants to know Hows the real estate market? Great, I tell them, and then I explain further remember, all real estate is local, and in Lewes the real estate market is very [...]
Do you ever wonder what all those initials are about? You know that long list of three and four letter abbreviations after Realtors names? If you were to look at mine, you would see Kathy Sperl-Bell, Broker, ABR, CRS, SRES. Most consumers do know what a Broker is, but dont know and probably dont really care about the [...]
