In today's Ask The Broker video, Kathy invites guestPete Green of Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group to discuss if retirees can obtain a mortgage to purchase their retirement home and what they can do to qualify. Learn [...]
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 [...]
Curb Appeal is something we all understand. When you pull up in front of a home do you smile? Does it make you want to see what it looks like inside? Or, do you scratch it off your list before you even see the [...]
In a buyer's market or a seller's market - the best property in the best location at the best price will always sell. Only the actual price at which the home sells is [...]
2011 Ended with a flurry of activity and the opening of our own Brokerage Active Adults Realty. After years of planning, education, finding just the right location, renovating that building, hiring the right team an experienced Office Manager and a couple of great agents, we are ready to start 2012 with enthusiasm and lots of positive [...]
Reality sets in and you realize that $250,000 is a quarter of a million dollars! That's a lot of money but can it buy you the dream home you've worked so hard for all your life? Maybe. Defining your dream home is all about how you want to live and what you are willing to sacrifice to get what you really want - freedom and life without [...]
In this housing market, it's natural for a buyer to want to get the absolute best deal. We are bombarded by news of the large foreclosure problem and the talking heads reading the news rarely mention "all real estate is local" and the statistics they are quoting are national averages. But, if you look, there are short sales and foreclosed [...]
Is now a good time to find a retirement home in Delaware? YES, for many reasons. Not only because prices have come down in response to the economy, and not only because interest rates are absurdly low, the lowest rates EVER, but also because builders don't like year-end inventory. Many builders end their year in September and that means [...]
Who knows your home is for sale? Your neighbors? The people down the street or around town? Where are the prospective buyers? Not next door.
Do you know who they are and where they live now? Ask yourself, who is relocating to Lewes, Delaware, and the surrounding areas like Rehoboth Beach, Milton, Milford, [...]
Five years ago, the White House Conference on Aging was held, as were state conferences and mini-conferences that were sponsored by various organizations like the National Association of Home Builders and AARP. This only happens every 10 years and the focus of this decades conference was on [...]