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October was an exciting month for Active Adults Realty in the news!

Delaware Beach Life-October 2014

An article by Pam George in the October edition of Delaware Beach Life, titled, Smart Moves" featured myself and Active Adults Realty clients, Tony and Maggi Gizzi who decided to downsize from a 19-room home in Riverton, NJ and move to [...]

Buyers Returning to the Market for Easier Mortgage Rules and Stable Rates

Why are more and more home buyers returning to the market? because theyre noticing favorable market conditions.

Specifically, buyers are feeling more comfortable about navigating the market thanks to interest rate stabilization and easier mortgage rules, according to a recent article by Reuters.

This is fantastic news for the overall health of the housing market. After all, it suggests that the national real estate market is likely to become more stable over [...]

Food Bank of Delaware Filling 2,500 Thanksgiving Meals

The Food Bank of Delaware Needs Support Filling 2,500 Thanksgiving Meal Boxes

Help make the holiday season bright for families in need this year. To help fill the boxes, theFood Bank of Delaware, the hunger-relief organization, is asking for the publics assistance in making sure that no Delawarean goes without a holiday meal this season.

The FBD asks for the communitys assistance in collecting food items and monetary donations in order to create the 2,500 Thanksgiving meal boxes for families in [...]

Home Sales Rose In September!

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 [...]

Buying A House? Why So Much Paperwork?

"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 [...]

US Real Estate Saw 6-Year High in August

Were breaking records on the U.S. housing market!

Evidently, during the month of August, US real estate saw 6-year high when national home sales reached their highest levels in more than six years, according to a recent report from the Commerce Department.

This is incredible! That means that sales activity has returned to the levels it was [...]

Delaware Tops Kiplingers Most tax-Friendly State List!

Its been no secret that Delaware is one of the most tax friendly states for retirees. In an recent article on Yahoo Finance, Kiplingers Sandra Block lists the top 10 most tax-friendly states in the U.S. and I am proud to say,

Its no small wonder, Delaware remains #1 on the most tax-friendly state list!

These ten states impose some of the [...]

Report: Big Homes Are a Hot Trend on the National Real Estate Market

Big homes are a big deal on the national housing market, according to a recent article in USA Today.

Evidently, big homes are a hot trend and a growing number of home buyers are looking for larger homes to accommodate their every need and desire.

In fact, of the 569,000 homes built last year in the US, about 33 percent (or 188,000 homes) had [...]

DE Fall Foliage Drives and Farmers Markets

Day-tripper Alert: DE Fall Foliage Drives and Fresh Farm Markets are Fabulous!

Our state's Byways are perfect for Fall Foliage Drives to our fabulous Farmers Markets. Being an agricultural state, Delaware offers a bountiful harvest of fruit and vegetables and many Scenic Drives to somewhere and to nowhere, too. Why not take advantage of this [...]

Compare Historic Interest Rates By Decade

Ghosts of Historic Interest Rates Past... as the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."

In this case, the picture below courtesy of Gail Alm, Mortgage Planning Specialist shows thousands of interest dollars paid on mortgages through the decades. Go ahead, take a look and...

Compare historic interest rates from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's and [...]

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