Lee Ann Wilkinson Group offers high-tech home search

As yet another way to bring real estate buyers and sellers together, the Lee Ann Wilkinson Group of Prudential Gallo Realtors has incorporated Microsoft’s Tag in its advertising, among other places, that will direct users to various related websites.

This tag is a type of two-dimensional bar code that, when used with a  mobile application, allows the user to review websites, receive messages, get access to special deals and more from the advertiser. The particular tag in the weekly Cape Gazette ad sends participates to the group’s real estate search page at lewesrealestate.com.

“It’s fascinating that it’s possible to go from medium to medium via mobile phone,” said Wilkinson. “This tag will connect newspaper readers to our website. Its cutting-edge technology that I think will benefit both buyers and sellers.”

Currently, very few real estate companies in the country have implemented this technology, and this is the first in the area.

Get the tag reader by visiting http://gettag.mobi on your mobile phone. Then test it with the tag below.

For more information about that tag application or general information, call (302) 645-6664 or visit lewesrealestate.com. The office is located at 16698 Kings Highway, Suite A, Lewes, DE 19958.

Lewes voted “Best Beach” in Coastal Living Magazine

Lewes was in the press! 

Coastal Living Magazine named Lewes in their special “The Best Little Beach Towns” issue and we’re honored! Coastal Living has featured our town on other occasions too, noting its friendly atmosphere and gingerbread appeal. You should check out the article here

All the best, Lee Ann

Lee Ann Wilkinson named a 5 Star Agent by Delware Today

 I’m happy to report that I was recently awarded the 5 Star Agent award for overall client satisfaction by Delaware Today magazine!

Delaware Today sends out surveys to clients that close during a particular year, in this case 2010, and calculate their anonymous responses. Based on the results they award local agents. I am proud to work with so many wonderful people throughout the community and am thankful to all who responded. I could not do it without you!

All the best,

Lee Ann

Opera at the Beach!

Aprile Millo

Dear Friends,

My family and I have teamed up with Bob Ciprietti at Touch of Italy Salumeria &
Pasticceria to form the  Prudential Gallo, REALTORS – Touch of Italy Foundation.
The foundation was created to benefit worthy organizations in our community.    
 
Viva Italia – An Evening with Aprile Millo is our first benefit concert and will take place
at the new Cape Henlopen High School Theatre on Saturday, September 25, 2010.  
 
Millo and assisting artists will delight the senses, while Touch of Italy and Nourish
will appease your appetite with a pre-performance supper. 

Tickets, priced at $100.00 and $130.00, are on sale now and can be purchased on our website at
 
http://www.operaatthebeach.com

Proceeds from Viva Italia will benefit these local organizations:

• Cape Henlopen Education Fund (CHEF)
• CAMP Rehoboth Community Center
• Autism Delaware
• Lewes/Rehoboth Rotary Club Scholarships for the Arts

Sponsorships range from $100 to $3000.00 with attractive incentives at each level.  

For more detailed sponsorship information click here. 
If you decide to help us sponsor the event, a portion of your contribution will be tax deductible.   

If you’d like to be a part of this fabulous night, please contact my sister Tricia Ratner at 302-745-4131.

I’m confident that the performance will be a sell-out.  Hope to see you all there!

-Lee Ann

J.D. Power Ranks Prudential Real Estate Highest for Seller Satisfaction in 2010 Report

J.D. Power and Associates today announced that the Prudential Real Estate Network ranked “Highest Overall Satisfaction for Home Sellers Among National Full Service Real Estate Firms” in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2010 Home Buyer/Seller Study. This marks the second time in three years that the Network ranked highest in seller satisfaction.

The annual study measures customer satisfaction of home sellers and buyers with major national real estate companies. Overall satisfaction is determined by examining four factors for the home-selling experience: agent (44%); marketing (30%); office (15%); and services (11%). Among home sellers, Prudential Real Estate achieved a score of 760 on a 1,000-point scale and received particularly high ratings from customers in the marketing and agent factors.

PRERS Chairman Jim Mallozzi said the award speaks for the quality and consistency of the Prudential Real Estate Network. “Affiliate to affiliate, our sales professionals are the local-market experts who market and price homes right, while providing attentive service,” Mallozzi said.

Rehoboth Beach Makes Travel and Leisure’s “America’s Best Little Beach Towns” List

Lewes and Rehoboth, Delaware are making it onto an increasing number of “best of” lists these days (go back and look at some of my posts for the last few months, you’ll see that Lewes, DE made it into both People and Fortune Magazine’s “ Best of” Lists ). This most recent article includes Rehoboth Beach as one of “America’s Best Little Beach Towns”. It was posted a online a couple days ago and is in their August Magazine issue.  The other East Coast towns mentioned  include Chincoteague, VA; Lubec ME; Cape May, NJ; Tybee Island, GA; Ogonquit, ME; Duck, NC; and Santa Rosa, FL

Best Beach Towns Article

Blenheim Homes owners Jay and Kashmira Sonecha Honored by the Small Business Council

The Small Business Council of America recently honored Jay and Kashmira Sonecha for their outstanding achievements as small business owners and for their charitable and humanitarian efforts.

The Sonechas are the owners of Blenheim Builders, developers of many Delaware cmmunities including locally our own Reserve at Pilottown (inside Lewes city limits off New Road and Pilottown Road) and Bay Crossing’s 55 Plus Community, also in Lewes (just off Route 1 between where Kings Highway joins Route 1 and the Midway Shopping Center). See article below:

CapeGazette.com – SBCA honors Blenheim Homes owners

Delaware Makes Forbes Magazine’s “Top Ten States for Retirees” List

REALTOR� Magazine-Daily News-States Attract Retirees With Favorable Taxes.

Lewes, Delaware Makes People Magazine “Favorite Destinations” List

Patricia Schultz, author of “1000 Places to See Before You Die” calls Lewes, Delaware  a “must-see”  town in a recent People Magazine article wherein four travel writers and travel series hosts were asked to name a place they consider an American Treasure and great summer travel destination.  (People Magazine’s Special Double Issue”  – 6/28/2010).  

Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass Festival in Lewes Delaware June 26/27th 2010

The 2010 Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival will be held at the Lewes Historical Society Complex on Saturday June 26th from 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday June 27th from 11 am to 4 pm.

The Mid-Atlantic Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival now has advance gate passes available for sale at Sand n Stones at 112 Front Street in Lewes. Passes are $5 and are good for both days of the show as well as allow admission to the speaker series that take place each day; passes will enable the bearer to avoid the lines to enter the events. On Saturday June 26, the speakers will be presenting at St. Peter’s Church Hall at Second & Mulberry Streets and on Sunday at the Zwaanendael Museum at Kings Highway and Savannah Road. The line-up includes:

Saturday, June 26, St. Peter’s
11:00 – Faye Stocum, archaeologist, glass from the Roosevelt Inlet Shipwreck off Lewes
1:00 – Deacon Ritterbush – aka “Dr. Beachcomb” – Collecting Sea Glass
2:00 – Pam George – Shipwrecks of Delaware

Sunday, June 27 Zwaanendael Museum
11:00 – Judith Roales, Lighthouse Lens & How They Work
1:00 – James Diehl, A History of Sussex County

Members of the Sussex County Antique  Bottle Club will be hand to help identify shards and their possible bottles of origin. A shard exhibit and identification session will be held in the Midway School House on the Historic Complex where over 30 sea glass vendors will be hand to display their wares and expertise in combing the beaches searching out these vanishing treasures.

In October 2008 Lewes hosted the North American Sea Glass Festival attracting over 5,000 visitors to the event. The great sea glass artists will be joined by other coastal artists including decoy carvers and other waterfowl artists. This event will also feature a great line-up of speakers, sea glass shard competitions and other fun activities.

Admission is $5.00 per person; a wrist band will be issued allowing entrance both days; the wristband is now available at Sand n Stones on Front Street in Lewes.