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FIRST STATE SIGNAL
The Monday Brief · Sep 1 – Sep 8, 2026
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7
sales recorded
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8
mortgages recorded
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19
permits and filings
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3
board decisions
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3
auctions scheduled
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“This week” means a record that arrived in our copy of the public record between Sep 1 and Sep 8, dated within the last 60 days.
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$450,000 in recorded consideration across Sussex.
New Castle is withheld from that total: its verified prices publish on a recorder lag, so a weekly dollar figure would not be a market reading. Individual New Castle deeds below still print their own amount and the basis it rests on.
Of 7 recorded sales, 0 carry a price verified against the transfer-tax return and 4 carry an amount stated on or read off the deed. The rest post a price with the next transfer-tax release.
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Worth a look
Chosen by rule: of this week's recorded items, the three whose parcel carries the most distinct public-record sources in the last 90 days. Ties go to the larger recorded amount, then to the more recent posting date.
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Transferred · New Castle · 2 distinct sources in 90 days
3401 Lancaster Pike · Ap Dorjul LLC to Westover Pointe 26 LLC · $13,850,000 (deed face) · Aug 25
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Transferred · New Castle · 2 distinct sources in 90 days
2625 N Market St · Filo Legal Services LLC to L & M 15 Capital Group LLC · $850,000 (deed face) · Aug 6
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Transferred · Sussex · 2 distinct sources in 90 days
parcel 532-20.00-87.07 · buyer Farmers Bank of Willards · $450,000 (stated on deed) · Aug 25
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Recorded sales
verified = consideration on the transfer-tax return · stated on deed = the consideration the deed itself recites · deed face = the amount on the face of the instrument · derived = a transfer-tax stamp read off the deed image.
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New Castle · one deed, 3 parcels
3401 Lancaster Pike and 2 more parcels
Ap Dorjul LLC → Westover Pointe 26 LLC
$13,850,000 deed face
deed dated Aug 25; recording date not yet in our record · NCC parcel sales layer · Property record → |
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New Castle
2625 N Market St
Filo Legal Services LLC → L & M 15 Capital Group LLC
$850,000 deed face
deed dated Aug 6; recording date not yet in our record · NCC parcel sales layer · Property record → |
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Sussex
parcel 532-20.00-87.07
buyer Farmers Bank of Willards
$450,000 stated on deed
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New Castle
34 Gordon St
buyer Wilmington Hope Commission Inc
$25,000 deed face
deed dated Jul 31; recording date not yet in our record · NCC parcel sales layer · Property record → |
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New Castle
2514 Cedar Tree Dr
Christiana Properties LLC → Cedar Tree Apartments LLC
price posts with the next transfer-tax release
deed dated Aug 31; recording date not yet in our record · NCC parcel sales layer · Property record → |
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New Castle
7441 Lancaster Pike
seller Chuckles LLC
price posts with the next transfer-tax release
deed dated Aug 10; recording date not yet in our record · NCC parcel sales layer · Property record → |
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New Castle
2001 W Seventeenth St
seller Mach 5 Enterprises LLC
price posts with the next transfer-tax release
deed dated Aug 20; recording date not yet in our record · NCC parcel sales layer · Property record → |
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Mortgages recorded
Each line is a recording, not a balance. The amount is the maximum principal the instrument states, where the index or the document carries one.
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Sussex
20569 Rodney St.
Capital One National Association · borrower Homestead Georgetown MHP LLC
$3,369,000 maximum principal stated in the instrument
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Sussex
26380 Seaford Rd
Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company · borrower Little Sprouts Properties LLC
$1,700,000 maximum principal stated in the instrument
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Sussex
9087 Elm St
Community Bank Delaware · borrower Sherman Dean W Agt West Elm Street LLC
$1,450,000 maximum principal stated in the instrument
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Sussex
33212 Coastal Hwy
Farmers Bank of Willards The · borrower Dtn Properties LLC
$1,068,470 maximum principal stated in the instrument
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New Castle
1407 Gilpin Ave
Fulton Bank N A · borrower Nz-1407 Gilpin Properties LLC
amount posts when the document is read
New Castle index carries no amount; posts when the document is read
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Sussex
21035 Dupont Blvd
Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB · borrower Dcb Georgetown LLC Fulton Bank National Association
amount posts when the document is read
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New Castle
2012 Brackenville Rd
Popular Bank · borrower Delaware Pharmacy LLC
amount posts when the document is read
New Castle index carries no amount; posts when the document is read
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New Castle
801 Darley Rd
Citadel Federal Credit Union · borrower Iron Faith Fellowship Inc
amount posts when the document is read
New Castle index carries no amount; posts when the document is read
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How complete is the payoff record? A loan is shown as open when we hold the loan and hold no release closing it, so the reading is only as good as our collection of releases. New Castle tests 97.8-100% complete for every month from October 1996 to today (measured 2026-09-02), but its Recorder indexed no payoffs at all before October 1996, so a New Castle loan older than that reads unknown rather than open. Kent is 32-46% complete (measured 2026-08-18), so Kent open-loan counts are an upper bound. Sussex tests 98.0% complete against the county's own payoff references for 1999 to August 2018 (measured 2026-09-04) and is index-contained every month since, but it indexed no standalone payoffs before October 1999, so an older Sussex loan reads unknown rather than open. Separately, and in every county, Delaware law entitles an owner to presume a mortgage satisfied once 10 years have passed since the maturity date the mortgage states — or 40 years since it was recorded, where it states no maturity date — so a loan past either mark is shown as presumed lapsed rather than open (25 Del. C. § 2123). Verify against the recorder before acting.
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What the boards decided
401 S Madison St · variance approved · City of Wilmington Zoning Board of Adjustment · Jul 27
5158 N Dupont Hwy · variance approved · Kent County Board of Adjustment · Jul 16
713 N Market St · design review approved with conditions · City of Wilmington Design Review & Preservation Commission · Jul 15
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In the news, in the record
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Delaware Business Now · Sep 7
Deed · Sussex Recorder 6181/47 · posted Oct 4, 2024
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Newark Post · Sep 4
Deed · New Castle Recorder 202404010019817 · posted Apr 1, 2024
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Sheriff and monition sales scheduled
Commercial parcels only. Schedules change; each line is the listing as of September 8, 2026.
| Oct 13 |
New Castle sheriff sale · 1024 Old Churchmans Rd case 26-008481 · listed as of Sep 8 |
| Oct 13 |
New Castle sheriff sale · 1 Shellcrest Ln case 26-008542 · listed as of Sep 8 |
| Oct 13 |
New Castle sheriff sale · 2132 N Market St · monition sale case 26-008774 · listed as of Sep 8 |
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Next on the calendar
| Sep 10 |
New Castle Board of Adjustment · 2001 Old Coochs Bridge Rd |
| Sep 10 |
New Castle Board of Adjustment · 500 Mckennans Church Rd |
| Sep 14 |
Sussex Board of Adjustment · 19287 Coastal Hwy |
| Sep 15 |
Kent Levy Court · 1798 N Little Creek Rd |
| Sep 24 |
New Castle Board of Adjustment · 850 Mt Lebanon Rd |
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Permits and court filings
The 6 highest-ranked of 19 in the record this week; the rest are on the property pages.
Filed · New Castle
813 W Fourth St · scire facias foreclosure action filed Sep 4 · U.S. Bank Trust N.A. · docket status not in our record
Superior Court docket · Sep 4
Filed · New Castle
813 W Fourth St · scire facias foreclosure action filed Sep 3 · Wilmington Savings Fund · docket status not in our record
Superior Court docket · Sep 3
Permitted · Sussex
22591 Dorman Rd · Temporary cert. of occ/comp, CHAPEL BRANCH - COMMUNITY BUILDING (BLDG 1) 1 ST 3,119 SF OFFICE, EXERCISE RM, COMMUNITY RM · Sep 2
Sussex permits · Sep 2
Permitted · Sussex
22591 Dorman Rd · Temporary cert. of occ/comp, CHAPEL BRANCH - APARTMENT BLDG. 2 3 STORY 21 UNITS use: AG0 · Sep 2
Sussex permits · Sep 2
Permitted · Sussex
22591 Dorman Rd · Temporary cert. of occ/comp, CHAPEL BRANCH - APARTMENT BLDG. 3 3 STORY 21 UNITS use: AG0 · Sep 2
Sussex permits · Sep 2
Permitted · New Castle
270 Polly Drummond Hil Rd · NCC Permit: Commercial Fit-Out, REINFORCE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS TOWER District: TRS3 Area: CHRISTINA · Sep 2
NCC permits · Sep 2
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Coverage
What was searched, and through what date. Each line is the newest record this brief's own layers hold.
| New Castle transfer-tax returns (verified prices) |
Jun 30 · 70 days behind
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| New Castle parcel sales layer |
Aug 31
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| New Castle deed images — newest deed read (backfill lane) |
Dec 20, 2019
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| Kent recorder sales |
Aug 13 · 26 days behind
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| Sussex recorder sales |
Sep 1
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| New Castle mortgages recorded (link-certain) |
Sep 4
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| Kent mortgages recorded (link-certain) Kent's recorder indexes no property data, so every Kent mortgage-to-parcel link is matcher-made and held as uncertain. The loans are in the record; none qualifies for the link-certain layer this section renders. |
no records held
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| Sussex mortgages recorded (link-certain) |
Sep 4
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| Sheriff and monition sales listed through |
Oct 29
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| Board decisions recorded |
Sep 3
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Lagging, and it affects what this brief can say:
New Castle transfer-tax returns (verified prices) stops at Jun 30; Kent recorder sales stops at Aug 13.
A price that has not published yet is not a price of zero, and a source that has not been re-read is not a quiet market.
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Every figure above is a stored public record with the citation printed beside it. Labels — verified, stated on deed, deed face, derived — say which record produced the number.
How we source this →
Public records only; no consumer use.
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