"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 [...]

Its always a good sign on the national housing market whenUS Home Sales outperform experts predictions!

And thats exactly what happened recently when the latest market activity report was released by the National Association of Realtors in July.

Evidently, contracts to purchase previously-owned properties increased more than expected during [...]

MyIndependence 2nd QTR Review shows, as predicted, the remaining lots in the first half of Independence have been selling quickly. Dust is still flying but the heavy trucks are moving into the next Phase more quickly than predicted.

In my April/May update there were 26 new homes under contract. It now looks like between 43 and 46 new homes [...]

The sluggish housing market over the last several years did not have an impact on Americans desire for bigger and fancier homes, according to a recent report from USA Today.

Size Matters-Bigger is Better!

Evidently, demand continues to grow for these large estates, especially as the housing market across the nation improves. This is a [...]

When I ask a client, where are you from? More times than I can count, my response is,

I lived there too, but I made my last move to Delaware. Let me tell you why.

After being fortunate to have lived in many places (and flying to and from many others in my past life as a flight attendant), I finally found a career that I love and a place [...]

It's summer in Delaware, and according to a recent USA Today article, existing home sales increased for the 2nd straight month - their strongest rate since the fall. It's no wonder why we are all so busy showing Boomer-friendly homes and [...]

SUSSEX, KENT & NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Delaware Real Estate Update from Active Adults Realty

SUSSEX COUNTY NEIGHBORHOODS

Kathy Sperl-Bell, Broker Active Adults Realty, "Southern Delaware, the market is flooded!"

Now that it's warming up, buyers, who ended up holding off because of the bad winter weather along with those who will normally enter [...]

The national housing market is dealing with an issue of supply and demand right now and its impacting both buyers and sellers... the Market needs more homes!

Specifically, the national housing market has too few people selling their homes compared with the number of people who want to buy homes, according to a recent report from Standard & Poors/Case [...]

Quick Delivery Homes: How They Can Speed Up The Move

These days, its hard for some Boomers to carry two mortgages while their existing home sits on the market. They must wait for their house to sell, called a contingency, before buying a new one.

For Quick Delivery Home buyers, the biggest concern is availability looking to avoid short term [...]