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Delaware home listings asked for less money in December – see the current median price here
Bellevue State Park pond draws skaters as ice thickens in cold snap
Skating – or just the novelty of walking on a pond – is back at Bellevue State Park, at least while it remains cold enough for the pond to have thick ice. Officials opened the pond to skating Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 – it might not have officially been open for winter recreation since 2018.
In Delaware, median home prices were $479,940, a slight decrease from November. The median Delaware home listed for sale had 2,048 square feet, with a price of $235 per square foot.
The median home in New Castle County listed for $399,900 in December, down 2.4% from the previous month’s $409,750, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. Compared with December 2023, the median home list price slightly decreased from $400,000.
The median home in Kent County listed for $399,925 in December, slightly up from the previous month’s $399,900. Compared with December 2023, the median home list price decreased 2.3% from $409,250.
The median home in Sussex County listed for $545,300 in December, slightly up from the previous month’s $545,200. Compared with December 2023, the median home list price increased 1% from $539,700.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.delawareonline.com.
Home listings in Delaware
New Castle County’s median home was 1,877 square feet, listed at $212 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 2.4% from December 2023.
Listings in New Castle County moved briskly, at a median 47 days listed compared with the December national median of 70 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 39 days on the market. Around 338 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 5.6% increase from 320 new listings in December 2023.
Kent County’s median home was 2,018 square feet, listed at $207 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 3.1% from December 2023.
Listings in Kent County moved briskly, at a median 54 days listed compared with the December national median of 70 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 49 days on the market. Around 150 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 17.2% increase from 128 new listings in December 2023.
Sussex County’s median home was 2,129 square feet, listed at $259 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 0.9% from December 2023.
Listings in Sussex County moved slowly, at a median 79 days listed compared with the December national median of 70 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 67 days on the market. Around 308 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 13.2% increase from 272 new listings in December 2023.
The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude many, or even most, of a market’s homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.
Across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area, median home prices fell to $358,075, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,551 square feet, at a list price of $226 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $402,502, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,800 square feet, with a price of $222 per square foot.
The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what’s happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price.
The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.
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Delaware Lottery Play 3 Day, Play 3 Night winning numbers for Jan. 26, 2025
Claiming lottery in Delaware
18 states have laws that allow national lottery prize jackpot winners to remain anonymous, but is Delaware among them?
The Delaware Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 results for each game:
Winning Play 3 numbers from Jan. 26 drawing
Day: 9-9-8
Night: 1-3-6
Check Play 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Play 4 numbers from Jan. 26 drawing
Day: 6-0-9-0
Night: 5-1-8-9
Check Play 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Multi-Win Lotto numbers from Jan. 26 drawing
05-06-15-19-25-30
Check Multi-Win Lotto payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Lucky For Life numbers from Jan. 26 drawing
01-10-21-28-40, Lucky Ball: 11
Check Lucky For Life payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Play 5 numbers from Jan. 26 drawing
Day: 8-0-4-5-3
Night: 8-8-7-6-1
Check Play 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results
Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
- Sign the Ticket: Establish legal ownership by signing the back of your ticket with an ink pen.
- Prizes up to $599: Claim at any Delaware Lottery Retailer, in person at the Delaware Lottery Office, or mail your signed ticket and claim form; print your name/address on the ticket’s back and keep a copy/photo for records. By mail, send original tickets and documentation to: Delaware Lottery, 1575 McKee Road, Suite 102, Dover, DE 19904.
- Prizes up to $2,500: Claim in person at Delaware Lottery Retailer Claim Centers throughout Kent, Sussex and New Castle Counties.
- Prizes of $5,001 or more: Claim in person at the Delaware Lottery Office (business days 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) with a photo ID and Social Security card.
- For all prize claims, directions to the Delaware Lottery Office are available online or via mapquest.com for a map.
Check previous winning numbers and payouts at Delaware Lottery.
Can I claim a jackpot prize anonymously in Delaware?
Fortunately for First State residents, the Delaware Lottery allows winners remain anonymous. Unlike many other states that require a prize be over a certain jackpot, Delawareans can remain anonymous no matter how much, or how little, they win.
How long do I have to claim my prize in Delaware?
Tickets are valid for up to one year past the drawing date for drawing game prizes or within one year of the announced end of sales for Instant Games, according to delottery.com.
When are the Delaware Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday.
- Play 3, 4: Daily at 1:58 p.m. and 7:57 p.m., except Sunday afternoon.
- Multi-Win Lotto: 7:57 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
- Lucky for Life: Daily at 10:38 p.m.
- Lotto America: 11:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
Missed a draw? Peek at the past week’s winning numbers.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Delaware Online digital operations manager. You can send feedback using this form.
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Police departments are divided on enforcing the Laken Riley Act
Congress has passed the Laken Riley Act, facilitating the detention and deportation of people in the country illegally when they’ve been charged with crimes. What remains to be seen is how much local police and jails will do to help this effort.
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Delaware Senate leaders and Gov. Matt Meyer face off over control of port
For Meyer and some of his supporters, allowing Hall-Long to make the recommendations would be a repudiation of the voters who chose Meyer over Hall-Long in last year’s Democratic primary by 10 percentage points. Meyer also beat former environmental protection chief Collin O’Mara in that primary, who garnered about 16% of the vote.
“Those who lose elections don’t get to make appointments,” said Nick Merlino, Meyer’s deputy chief of staff.
“I think that it’s unprecedented for someone who lost an election to be able to make nominations as a consolation prize on their way out,” he said. “It just seems wholly unfair, unfair to the voters of Delaware.”
However, in a letter to Meyer, Senate President Dave Sokola, D-Newark, told Meyer that based on legal research, the nominations are “viable.” But he also invited Meyer to submit his own nominees. He did not respond to a request for comment.
Merlino said the Senate leadership told them the chamber was relying on rulings from court cases in Pennsylvania and Wyoming.
Senate Majority Leader Bryan Townsend said Hall-Long duly made the nominations during her time as governor and he doesn’t think which governor’s name is on the nominations has a direct connection to the voters.
Townsend did not clearly answer whose nominations the Senate would take up, but left the door open for the Senate to disregard Meyer’s picks in favor of Hall-Long’s.
“Right now we have Gov. Hall Long’s nominees that are submitted to the Senate. Gov. Meyer sent a letter that we believe presented an inaccurate, to put it mildly, framing of the Delaware Constitution and what its powers are,” he said. “Sen. Sokola responded and we’ll move through the process of considering nominees that are before us, whoever the nominees are and whichever governor submits them, we very much want to see people who are committed to what we believe the future of the port can be.”
Townsend also argued that even if Hall-Long was not elected governor last year, senators were. Sokola was not on the ballot last year, while Townsend and Senate Majority Whip Elizabeth “Tizzy” Lockman ran unopposed.
Meyer will have four cabinet secretaries on the port board — pending expected confirmations by the Senate this month — who are legislatively appointed.
Those include his nominations for Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda, Transportation Secretary Shanté Hastings, Finance Secretary Michael Smith and Department of Safety and Homeland Security Secretary Joshua Bushweller.
In another potential blow to Meyer’s control over the direction of the port, Townsend is sponsoring legislation introduced days before Meyer was inaugurated that would allow the port’s board to elect its own chair without the consent of the Senate. That means the governor would no longer be able to pick the chair, possibly paving the way for former Secretary of State and longtime board chair Jeffrey Bullock to return to the position. He has served on the board since 2009 and has been chairman longer than anyone since the 18th century.
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