Looking for a new home are you? Have you been online and offline, driving all around Coastal Delaware? Been Upstate, Downstate, East of Route 1, West of Route 13 and everywhere in between? Is it any clearer now or have you been driving in circles. Will you know it when you see it but you just havent found it [...]

Everyone agrees the real estate market is back. In a strong real estate market in Coastal Delaware with very low inventory, be prepared to take action if we say

Wow, thats a great price for that home!

Dont say Ok, let me think about it and Ill get back to you. You are bound to be disappointed when you call back in a few days and say What [...]

Find a professional REALTOR to represent you. Dont work with a real estate wannabe. What do I mean?

• DONT use your friend who has a real estate license just so he can help his or her friends buy a house.
• DONT use the retiree who got their license just so they can do a deal or two with people they run into at the clubhouse in between golf
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This morning clients showed up for our meeting with an armful of information. They knew each and every community in Delaware, every model and every floorplan, square feet and all. As we talked however, it became clear that it was all a jumble and they were suffering [...]

Why do we recommend that you use a local mortgage company when buying a home in Coastal Delaware? This month we had several settlements in which our Buyer clients had decided to obtain a mortgage from one of the big banks or mortgage companies. In one case, the clients had maintained a relationship with that BIG BANK for years and felt he [...]

When I have clients coming to town and they ask

Can you recommend a dog friendly hotel?

it tells me a lot about them.

If the dogs come along on our house hunting trips, I know the next question might be whether this community or that allows fences in the back yard. Some new home communities and mostactive adult communities do not allow [...]

In Delaware, the Buyer chooses the settlement attorney and the attorney represents the Buyer, not the Seller. If the Seller wishes to retain their own counsel, they may do so, but you should not give up your right to representation by your own [...]

Now that the market has recovered, what's happening with prices in Coastal Delaware? As we always say -

"All Real Estate is Local"

so the answer depends on what type of property and community we are talking about. The best way to answer this question is to look at what it is people want to buy and then see what's happening with prices. A [...]

Several years ago, I wrote an article entitled Understanding Base Model Pricing. This morning I referred to it once again in a meeting with a new Buyer Client. The questions about new home pricing always comes up when talking about new construction and this article was my attempt to explain how new home pricing [...]

Active Adults Realty is proud to support the National Open House Weekend. For the third year now, REALTORS all over the Country have collaborated on this one weekend by holding Open Houses.

This year Active Adults Realty is hosting an Open House all weekend at the Village of Cinderberry. On Saturday, from 10 am to 4 pm and on Sunday, from 12 [...]