At The Beach – Ocean City Maryland

Real Estate Condo sales activity in November 2006 continue to reflect significant declines from previous years along the Delmarva Coast, including Ocean City Md and the Delaware Seashore Resort Areas. New Construction activity has slowed and some major planned new developments have halted their plans to break ground. At the end of November 2006, year to date condo settlements in Ocean City MD were down 45% compared to the end of November 2005. It’s a buyers market and those sellers who are able and willing to reduce their asking prices may ultimately find a willing buyer at reduced prices.  Selling prices for Nov 2006 show a 7% average lower price than the original asking price of Sellers. You can review the entire November 2006 Condo Sales Activity report for Ocean City MD by visiting the Coastal Association of REALTORS web site..   For Dec 2006 listing and sales data for Condo sales in Ocean City MD real estate CLICK HERE. I encourage you to use a professional real estate agent when selling or buying real estate. You will find many qualified REAL ESTATE agents representing buyers and sellers of Real Estate in Ocean City, Ocean Pines, Berlin Maryland and Delaware Seashore including Fenwick Island, Bethany Beach and Rehoboth Beach by CLICKING HERE: 

Ocean City Maryland – A NorEaster Storm can move sand around very quickly on the seashore. Wind and high wave action, coupled with high tides will create a changed shoreline very quickly. On November 22, the Delmarva Coast was affected by such a NorEasterly storm. High winds out of the North East of high velocity, coupled with high tides bring the realization of it’s power and ability to re-landscape the beach, dunes and cross over’s. This photo was taken mid morning after only a few hours of high winds. Winds gusted to as much as 60 MPH during the evening and throughout the night. I attempted to walk out onto the beach in the early portions of the storm (before it was raining) and the sand blasted my face and body causing me to quickly retreat behind the dune. You can observe in this picture that after only a few hours, the dune walkway path was almot 50 percent full of sand blown there in just a few hours.

Beach Erosion was significant, but the DUNES HELD and prevented any wave action from crossing over the dunes into the city. Two days later, I ventured back to observe the beach and found the dune crossings totally filled with sand. High wave action had also moved much of the existing beach off shore. It will naturally restore itself by springtime, barring any additional major winter storms. The picture on the left shows the dune walkway crossover totally full of sand on the 24th of Nov after the storm had passed. Ocean City MD and Fenwick Island DE are fortunate to have benefited from periodic beach replenishment to maintain sufficient dune sand and natural grasses, thereby protecting homes and condo’s from damage by Ocean Waves during major storms along the Atlantic Coast of Maryland and the Fenwick Island DE beach area.

In the event of major Hurricanes or NorEaster Storms affecting Ocean City Md and the Delaware Seashore area, you can always check here as we will attempt to post up real time situation reports for the beach reports….