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 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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I am an avid CNBC watcher but not as much as I used to be. They have gone from reporting hard news to advocating for their own positions and favorite companies. If you only evaluated companies based on their stock performance or the comments of a CNBC on air personality, would you end up with the best [...]

One of my absolute favorite expressions is Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose, loosely translated to mean

The more things change, the more they stay the same, in Delaware real estate!

Although the real estate market has been in full recovery mode in Delaware for 2 years now, change is still rearranging the landscape. But then, the only [...]

Real estate experts all across the country were thrilled to hear the latest numbers on the national housing market recently.

Thats because sales of existing U.S. homes showed a slight increase between March and April, reversing a 12-month trend in which home purchases had been dropping.

This wasnt the only good news that the National Association of Realtors had to share, [...]

No More Games: the PRICE needs to be RIGHT or I may not want to list your house!

A previous article on our blog, "Why I may not want to list your home for sale," we talk about the partnership that is necessary to list and sell your home in a reasonable period of time for a good price.

The numbers dont lie: Americans are growing increasingly confident about the overall health of the national real estate market, according to a recent report.

Evidently, a recent Gallup poll showed that 56 percent of Americans expect average home prices in their area to increase, which is up 33 percent from just two years ago.

And its markedly increased from the low point of 21 percent in January [...]

How can you improve Retirement Readiness?

A study from the nonprofit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS) titled, Fourteen Facts About Womens Retirement Outlook aimed at raising awareness of retirement risks that women face in order to affect positive change. "Women can take greater control of their finances," according to Catherine Collinson, president of [...]