home-finding sites for Delaware (New Castle, Ocean View: for sale, real estate, big house)

[hmarochka]

Hi,

I'm running into a bit of frustration looking for a home in Delaware. I've discussed our criteria for the house with two real estate agents and they both sent me the listings. The interesting thing was that whereas several properties were found on both reports, most of them would appear on one but not the other and vice versa (absolutely the same criteria, mind you). Moreover, as I kept working further with one agent and receiving very little updates on the listings, if I'd tell her the address of a house I drove by with the "For Sale" sign, she was able to immediately pull and send me that listing. I would really like to be able to make that search myself and have the most comprehensive list of properties as soon as they come on the market. The agent said everyone in Delaware works with the trendmls.com site, and only licensed agents have access to it. This is frustrating to me because I'd like to be able to monitor the search instead of getting dosed information from a realtor.

In other states, I knew of sites that provided up-to-date information to public users. These sites pulled information from the same database that realtors used. For example, newjerseymls.com for New Jersey, redfin.com for MD, DC, etc...

The only other sites I know about are zillow.com, realtor.com, and trulia.com but as far as I know they lag behind and don't show all available listings either.

Does anybody know of a site that provides up-to-date real estate information for the state of Delaware? Or can you recommend any other reliable sites?

Thank you!

[jtees4]

Realtor.com used to be pretty good, but I have not used it for awhile. I also find Trulia fairly good, I find searching directly on the Trulia map works nicely.....Zillow used to be better but not as good lately. Good luck.

[doctorjef]

It's really unfortunate that the real estate agency with the best, most user-friendly website apparently went out of business earlier last year. They had all the listings for New Castle Co. and a more limited - but still large - number of listings for Kent and Sussex on their website. I'm not identifying them, even though I believe they have ceased to exist (bought out by another agency maybe), because realtors are the one business that we aren't supposed to recommend by name on this forum, although you can of course DM such info to posters.

I haven't found any alternative website that is easy to use and carries all the MLS.

[rdlr]

Originally Posted by hmarochka

Hi,
Does anybody know of a site that provides up-to-date real estate information for the state of Delaware? Or can you recommend any other reliable sites?
Thank you!

Here's a real estate site which also has a section for public access. Although it has many jurisdictions and areas listed, this particular site mostly focuses on Sussex County Listings.
Sussex County Public Site

or
http://www.delmls.com/sus/pubmain.php


By the way, for less than $275,000 there are some very nice, upscale properties for sale between south of the canal and Ocean View. I've seen some loaded model homes, or builder specs priced near $425,000, sell for less than $300,000, and I mean, having over 3,200 sq.ft.living area. To sell those, many times builders will add other amenities to make a sale. If anybody is waiting to buy, I don't know what they're waiting for.

[hmarochka]

Originally Posted by jtees4

Realtor.com used to be pretty good, but I have not used it for awhile. I also find Trulia fairly good, I find searching directly on the Trulia map works nicely.....Zillow used to be better but not as good lately. Good luck.

Somebody also mentioned ziprealty.com to me, worth checking it out...

[hmarochka]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

It's really unfortunate that the real estate agency with the best, most user-friendly website apparently went out of business earlier last year. They had all the listings for New Castle Co. and a more limited - but still large - number of listings for Kent and Sussex on their website. I'm not identifying them, even though I believe they have ceased to exist (bought out by another agency maybe), because realtors are the one business that we aren't supposed to recommend by name on this forum, although you can of course DM such info to posters.

I haven't found any alternative website that is easy to use and carries all the MLS.

Thank you, yes, that's a shame. Everyone's welcome to DM me!!

[hmarochka]

Originally Posted by rdlr

Here's a real estate site which also has a section for public access. Although it has many jurisdictions and areas listed, this particular site mostly focuses on Sussex County Listings.
Sussex County Public Site

or
Sussex County Public Site


By the way, for less than $275,000 there are some very nice, upscale properties for sale between south of the canal and Ocean View. I've seen some loaded model homes, or builder specs priced near $425,000, sell for less than $300,000, and I mean, having over 3,200 sq.ft.living area. To sell those, many times builders will add other amenities to make a sale. If anybody is waiting to buy, I don't know what they're waiting for.

Thank you. We're looking in the New Castle county in a pretty specific area. We're not interested in new constructions and don't want a big house. It seems like there's a lot available out there, but when we apply our criteria - not so much!

[debbiekr]

Agents do have the ability to set you up for an automatic search. We can easily put your search criteria into our MLS system and set up a search that will automatically email you listings as they come on the market. I hear from buyers all the time about how frustrated they become from outdated information on websites or having to drive around themselves to find homes. Ask the agent you are working with to set you up on an automatic search through Trend. It will make your search a lot easier! Good luck with your home search!

[hmarochka]

Originally Posted by debbiekr

Agents do have the ability to set you up for an automatic search. We can easily put your search criteria into our MLS system and set up a search that will automatically email you listings as they come on the market. I hear from buyers all the time about how frustrated they become from outdated information on websites or having to drive around themselves to find homes. Ask the agent you are working with to set you up on an automatic search through Trend. It will make your search a lot easier! Good luck with your home search!

50 million frenchmen can't be wrong! We do have the automatic search set up. It only shows updates on the market, which is inconvenient if you want one place to look at all of the results that match your criteria.

[James420]

This might sound crazy but for out of state and really in state we use craiglist for a reference point. Tons of house's each day all over the state.