http://blog.davidhillsold.com "THE Real (Estate) World" Delaware County and Chester County, Pennsylvania Real Estate Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:47:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sales of resale single-family homes and condos and co-operatives are expected to drop 4.7 percent this year, to an annual total of 5.39 million sales, according to the Realtor group's latest housing market forecast. That follows a 12.8 percent decline in 2007 and an 8.5 percent decline in 2006. New-home ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/home-prices-will-continue-to-fall-2/ Sales of resale single-family homes and condos and co-operatives are expected to drop 4.7 percent this year, to an annual total of 5.39 million sales, according to the Realtor group's latest housing market forecast. That follows a 12.8 percent decline in 2007 and an 8.5 percent decline in 2006. New-home ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/home-prices-will-continue-to-fall/ Hi , we just finished up our first year of mite travel hockey for the Delco Phantoms, and boy what a busy season it was. I can't believe how far these kids have come from the beginning of spring camp last year. As one of the coaches of the team ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/mite-hockey/ • The median age of home buyers was 37 years old. Among first-time buyers, the median    age was 31. • The 2006 median household income of home buyers was $70000 compared to $74,000 among    all home buyers nationally. • Sixty-five percent of home buyers reported that there were no children under age ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/characteristics-of-home-buyers-in-pennsylvania/ Divorce. Single parenthood. Debt. Bankruptcy. These and a long list of other social behaviors were once stigmatized and kept behind closed doors away from polite society, but are now, if perhaps not completely acceptable, at least openly tolerated and in some cases, even lauded as smart lifestyle choices. Must we now ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/walk-away-homeowners/ The Delaware County Department of Intercommunity Health Coordination wants to alert families that healthy babies should be placed on their backs for safe sleeping. A public health video now airing on 21 (and Comcast digital station 190) reminds parents to place healthy babies on their backs to sleep. The video was produced by ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/safe-sleep-for-babies/ The rate cut by the Fed today is immediately significant for anyone with a line of credit. Also, anyone with an adjustable rate mortgage that is tied to prime will benefit at their next rate adjustment. However, it will probably be a little while before this works its way through ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/will-rate-cut-help/ Do you need to rent out your house? Are you needing to move and don't have the ability to sell now due to the market's price drop? Do you want to become an "Accidental Landlord?"  Book coming soon, but in the meantime, check out the Landlord Protection Agency! They will ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/accidental-landlord/ Here are the top ten ways any seller can practically guarantee their home will expire: Not serious about selling. A sage once quipped, "Money is only important when you don't want something enough." Real estate expert R.L. Brown said that if half of the 58,000 sellers ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/guaranteed-to-expire/ This makes me mad every time I see it. Either the National Association of Business Economists is full of people with no real business experience or fools. This is a headline from a major online Real Estate publication, "Economists See Credit Problems as Bigger Threat than Terrorism." I know they ... http://blog.davidhillsold.com/sensationalism-and-the-housing-bubble/