Delaware Real Estate Market Report for Fourth Quarter 2008
U.S. home values continued to slide for the eighth consecutive quarter, declining 11.6 percent from a year ago, and falling 17.5 percent since the market peak in 2006. Additionally, one in five homes sold in the past 12 months was a foreclosure, and one in six of all homeowners have negative equity. Those are the national statistics for the fourth quarter of 2008.
Our Local Market looks to be doing much better than the national average. Newark area was actually able to make a slight gain in value from a year ago.