This is a question that most agents and buyers never really have to think about. How often does this happen? I like to raise the question in my ethics classes for these very reasons. Once people do think about it, it can generate a lively theoretical discussion which generates emotion and opinion. I am not sure there is a perfect answer but I think it has so many aspects to it that it is worth discussing. Better now than in an ethics hearing. Let me start w...

Tri-County Suburban REALTORS and Showing Time, using Bright MLS statistics, have released their Local Market Insight report for single family homes in Delaware County Pennsylvania through December 2020. If you would like more information about this or any other County or any specific municipalities in the Delaware Valley, please contact me or visit my web site, AndrewWetzel.com. I am only a phone call, an email or a text away! I respond promptly to all inquiries. The ma...

Tri-County Suburban REALTORS and Showing Time have released their January 2021 Local Market Insight report for single family homes in Delaware County Pennsylvania. The report relies on Bright MLS statistics. If you would like more information about this or any other County or any specific municipalities in the Delaware Valley, please contact me or visit my web site, AndrewWetzel.com. I am only a phone call, an email or a text away! I respond promptly to all inquiries.&...

Showing Time, using Bright MLS statistics, has released their Local Market Insight report for single family homes in Delaware County Pennsylvania through November 2020. If you would like information about this or any other County or any specific municipalities in the Delaware Valley, please contact me or visit my web site, AndrewWetzel.com. I am only a text, email or phone call away! I respond promptly to all inquiries.The overall market continues to be affected by the pande...

The court-ordered Delaware County (PA) reassessment project is nearing its conclusion. When completed, the County will have a total value for all of its over 203,000 parcels of Real Estate. Then they will determine the “millage rate” or tax due per thousand dollars of Real Estate owned needed to generate the tax revenue required to fund the different parts of government including school districts. I served on 1 of 5 auxiliary tax reassessment appeal boards and have repo...

Bright MLS has released their Residential Market Statistics (which they call Local Market Insight) for single family homes in Delaware County Pennsylvania through October 2020. If you would like information about this or any other County or any specific municipalities in the Delaware Valley, please contact me. I am only a text, email or phone call away! I respond promptly to all inquiries.The overall market continues to be affected by the pandemic and resulting economic impa...

Bright MLS has released their Local Market Insight statistics for all single-family homes, meaning both detached and attached, in Delaware County Pennsylvania through September 2020. If you would like more detailed information about Delaware County or any other County or any specific municipalities in the Delaware Valley, please contact me. I am only a text, email or phone call away and I respond promptly to all inquiries.The overall market continues to be affected by the pandemic...

Bright MLS has released their Local Market Insight statistics for single family homes in Delaware County Pennsylvania through August 2020. If you would like more detailed information about this or any other County or any specific municipalities in the Delaware Valley, please contact me. I am only a text, email or phone call away! I respond promptly to all inquiries.The overall market continues to be affected by the pandemic and resulting economic impact. However, gener...

“Data integrity” ensures that reported information is accurate and can be relied upon. In Real Estate this could be the status of a property, the price, the type of property and its features. The importance of accurate information cannot be overstated as people make costly decisions based on what is reported. A seller needs a “ready, willing and able” buyer to complete a sale. Buyers “acquire” Real Estate information from a variety of sources. They expect that all...

Selling Real Estate in and of itself, as an “independent act”, can be interesting enough. Contracts and paperwork aside, it has to be marketed/ exposed, identified as matching someone’s needs, visited, negotiated, inspected and eventually survive several steps proving that both parties can and want to complete the deed transfer. Every one of these steps can be lengthy. I have found that there are really three basic scenarios possible when someone wants to sell a property.&nbs...