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Delaware home listings on the rise — see the current median price here

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February 10, 2024

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Delaware home listings on the rise — see the current median price here

Median home prices in New Castle and Kent counties are on the rise.

The median home in New Castle County listed for $409,978 in January, up 2.5% from the previous month’s $400,000, while the Kent County median listed for $412,250 in January, up 0.7% from the previous month’s $409,250, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

The median home price in Sussex County was listed for $529,999 in January, down 1.8% from the previous month’s $539,700.

The statistics in this article pertain only to houses listed for sale in Delaware not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.delawareonline.com.

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Listings in Sussex County moved slowly, at a median of 78 days listed compared with the January national median of 69 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 64 days on the market. Around 418 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 3% increase from 406 new listings in January 2023.

Listings in New Castle County moved briskly, at a median of 50 days listed compared with the January national median of 69 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 41 days on the market. Around 366 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 5.7% decrease from 388 new listings in January 2023.

Listings in Kent County moved steadily, at a median of 68 days listed compared with the January national median of 69 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 58 days on the market. Around 130 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 27% decrease from 178 new listings in January 2023.

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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 $337,375, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,530 square feet, at a list price of $214 per square foot.

In Delaware, median home prices were $477,450, a slight increase from December. The median Delaware home listed for sale had 2,071 square feet, with a price of $230 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $409,500, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,823 square feet, with a price of $221 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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MERR responds to dead humpback whale washed up near Bethany Beach

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January 9, 2026

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MERR responds to dead humpback whale washed up near Bethany Beach

A dead humpback whale washed up near Bethany Beach on Jan. 8, according to the nonprofit Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute.

The juvenile male was first seen Jan. 6, floating at sea about 2 miles off the Indian River Inlet, a MERR Facebook post said. The bloated 30-foot whale ultimately beached near a private community in the early afternoon of Jan. 8, the post said.

MERR is attempting to coordinate with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to get equipment to move the whale out of the water and onto the beach to perform a necropsy, the post said. Right now, there isn’t enough information to determine a cause of death.

Delaware saw at least three dead whales last year, in the Indian River Bay, at Delaware Seashore State Park and at Pigeon Point. The first two were humpbacks, while the Pigeon Point whale was a fin whale.

A necropsy on the Delaware Seashore whale found blunt force trauma across its back, indicating it may have been struck by a ship, MERR Director Suzanne Thurman said.

Recently, on Jan. 4, a dead fin whale was found on the bow of a ship at the Gloucester Marine Terminal in New Jersey, which is located in the Port of Philadelphia on the Delaware River.

Shannon Marvel McNaught reports on southern Delaware and beyond. Reach her at smcnaught@gannett.com or on Facebook.

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Pa. man accused of stealing more than 100 skeletons from Delco cemetery

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January 8, 2026

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Pa. man accused of stealing more than 100 skeletons from Delco cemetery

A Pennsylvania man is accused of stealing more than 100 skeletons from a cemetery in Delaware County.

Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, is charged with abuse of corpse, criminal mischief, burglary and other related offenses, Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse revealed on Thursday, Jan. 8.

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Between November 2025 and Jan. 6, 2026, 26 mausoleums and underground burial sites had been burglarized or desecrated at Mount Moriah Cemetery, which stretches from Yeadon Borough, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia, investigators said.

As police investigated the thefts, they caught Gerlach desecrating a monument at the cemetery on Tuesday, Jan. 6, according to officials. Gerlach was taken into custody and investigators executed a search warrant at his home in Ephrata.

During the search, investigators recovered 100 human skeletons from Gerlach’s home as well as eight more human remains inside a storage locker, according to Rouse.

“Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life the other night guys,” Rouse said. “This is an unbelievable scene that no one involved – from myself to the detectives to the medical examiners that are now trying to piece together what they are looking at, quite literally – none of them have ever seen anything like this before.”

Rouse said some of the stolen skeletons are hundreds of years old.

“We are trying to figure out exactly what we are looking at,” Rouse said. “We quite simply at this juncture are not able to date and identify all of them.”

Rouse also said some of the skeletons are of infants and children.

“It is truly, in the most literal sense of the word, horrific,” Rouse said. “I grieve for those who are upset by this who are going through it who are trying to figure out if it is in fact their loved one or their child because we found remains that we believe to be months old infants among those that he had collected. Our hearts go out to every family that is impacted by this.”

Sources also told NBC10 the thefts are related to a similar case in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Investigators said they are looking at Gerlach’s online community — including his social media groups and Facebook page — to determine if people were buying, selling, or trading the remains.

Gerlach is currently in custody at the Delaware County Prison after failing to post $1 million bail. Online court records don’t list an attorney who could speak on his behalf.

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