Blog :: 2015

Delaware's Fabulous Farmers Markets

Who needs Whole Foods when you can find Bounty in every Delaware County!

Whats better than a Whole Foods down the street? The Locals Choice of Delaware's fabulous Farmers Markets. A quick look at the DE Department of Agriculture's Buy Local Guide: Farmers' Markets and you'll see why being "Delaware grown" is growing the state's [...]

Saving Strategies For A Down Payment

Saving for a home can take time for home buyers.

What is the length of time Buyers take to save for a down payment?

What are your saving strategies for a Down Payment? According to at the National Association of REALTORS, "Among recent home [...]

Winter 2015: DE Real Estate Market and Community Update

Looking for information about the DE Real Estate Market, the DE 55 Plus Community and/or New Home Neighborhood news? If you're a Boomer building the next phase of your life and looking toward retirement in [...]

Mortgage: Pre-Approval vs. Pre-Qualification

Before the crash, it used to be easy. You called a loan officer, told them what you made and what you owed and BAM! they sent you a pre-qualification letter.

Then came the CRASH and the huge losses when values plunged and people could not afford the homes they purchased. They could not sell for enough $$ to pay off the mortgage companies [...]

Escaping from or Retiring to somewhere

The Magic Carpet Ride

There are two kinds of people that relocate to another state when they retire -

Escaping from __add your state____ (Maryland, New Jersey, New York)

People that are escaping from high taxes or other negative aspects of where they currently live. They come to Delaware primarily to escape and may never have spent time [...]

Delaware Housing Market 2015 Forecast

My email box is full of economists forecasts for the 2015 housing market. Looking at the housing market as a whole, the consensus is that the market will be even better in 2015 than it was in 2014. Most predict sales and price appreciation to pick up steam this year according to Christopher Thornberg, principal at Beacon Economics. Mark [...]

Middletown Showing Retail Growth in 2015

An article in the News Journal by William H. McMichael, titled "Retail On The Rise In Middletown," is worth reading if you are looking to move to an area convenient to the Northeast Corridor of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New [...]

Lewes, Delaware - Yahoo's #10 Retirement City

Florida is so yesterday, according to Tobias Carroll in an article published on Yahoo Travel titled, Florida is so yesterday, Retirement Destinations Worth Exploring, the article goes on to say, If youre thinking of retirement, the options open are now far more expansive than the traditional choices of Florida and Arizona. Perhaps youre [...]

Buying a new home vs. buying a car

When you decide its time to buy a new car, do you hop in your car and drive to visit a dozen or more car dealers? Do you register with each one, giving them your name, address, cell phone and email address? You do realize they are sales people that work for the dealer, right? If you did give them all of your contact information, how many [...]

Coming Soon: Coastal Club, Lewes, New DE Neighborhood

Update on Coastal Club

Coastal Club - the HOT Delaware Community is Here!

What do we know so far? We know there are 3 builders at the Coastal Club in Lewes: Schell Brothers, NV Homes and Beazer. We know there will be a total of 600 or so homes when complete. It will be a Gated Community

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