Chesterbrook is a 28 year old development that is well liked in our area, for more information go to Homes in Chesterbrook on our website for information about developments, shops, restaurants, the Valley Forge Suites Hotel and offices that all make up Chesterbrook.

Chesterbrook has for a while tried to obtain it's own zip code. I don't know what is happening with that right now. Currently it is part of Wayne, which is weird as Wayne is in Delaware County and Chesterbrook is in Chester County, Wayne is Radnor Township and Chesterbrook is Tredyffrin, even the school district is different. Having a new zip code would help solve the confusion in my opinion, what do you think?

This is a great home for someone looking for a home which has new windows and hardwood floors but is willing to do a spot of painting and some other decorative fixes and upgrades. Because this home is an end unit it is bright and airy, with a great wrap around deck. It is directly opposite the Picket Post Swim and Tennis Club and has 4 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms, a great finished basement plus plenty of storage. A second floor laundry makes life simple to enjoy. this home awaits your touches to make it your own, some new carpeting and upgrades to the bathrooms and kitchen over time will give you a home that is one of the best in Chesterbrook.

Location is good with proximity to trails, and the shops of Chesterbrook, Wilson Farm Park, Valley Forge Park, Jenkins Arboretum, King of Prussia Mall, Gateway shops and restaurants as well as being just a few minutes drive from the Route 30 corridor of Wayne, Devon, Berwyn and Paoli giving access to the R5 Septa line for travel to downtown Philadelphia.

Home will be Open from 1-3 PM. From Chesterbrook Blvd turn on Chase at the end of Chase turn right on Heyward to Liberte Ln.

  

The smell of brownies wafts through the house from the eat in kitchen through the dining room to the living room with its wood burning fireplace. You can see designated Open Space from the patio off the living room. A few steps from the front door and you are on one of the many walking trails that wind throughout Chesterbrook. It is only a few minutes walk to Genuardis the local supermarket or Rita's Water Ice although today may be a little chilly and a pizza from Pizzaland more appropriate during the football game. Or maybe you want a meal at either the Chinese or Indian restaurant that are all in the shopping plaza. If you are feeling adventurous you can easily walk up to Valley Forge National Park where Washington and The Continental Army sheletered during a particulalry harsh winter many years ago along the walking trails.

If you take a car it is just a few minutes to King of Prussia Mall where you can get your Holiday Shopping completed in no time at all. With all the major roads nearby the world is literally your oyster as you can reach Philadelphia Airport in about 45 minutes or less.

When you return you can park your car in the garage, enter the hallway and enjoy being home as you walk across the wood floors quietly mount the newly carpeted stairs, and relax in your master bedroom suite with a soak in the tub in the large master bathroom.

If you have children this home is in the award winning Tredyffrin Easttown school district, Valley Forge elementary and middle schools are very close and Conestoga High School is about 5 miles at the most. So you can easily attend all those important events. The upstairs loft is a great fourth bedroom or a study center/office with natural daylight from the skylights.

Priced at $329,900 this home is agressively priced to sell and compares well to other homes on the market. But come and see for your self on Sunday December 2nd between 2 and 4 PM. There is another scheduled Open House for December 16th if it hasn't sold by then, but don't wait, interest rates are low. Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!

After attending a Veteran's Day ceremony in our local town of Berwyn we will be having an Open House at 3 Treaty Drive in Chesterbrook between 2 and 4 PM this afternoon. This is a great home in a wonderful location close to everything. For more information go to http://3TreatyDrive.VandekarTeam.com where you can view details of the home and see plenty of photos and a virtual tour.

 

                                    

When looking for a town home location is everything. 3 Treaty Drive is one of those locations. Very private and NOT near the turnpike. Updated bathrooms, new carpets on the second floor, hardwood floors on first floor 2003, appliances new in 2003, very spacious loft with closet. Can easily be used as 4th bedroom. Very nice breakfast area with bay window. Living room open with the dining room for easy flow to entertain. Patio right outside the living room. There is an entrance hallway and a foyer that could be used for a computer area. Garage entrance from the house. Currently there is leased security system. There is an Open House this weekend October 28th 1-5 PM so we hope to see you there.

                                       

Chesterbrook is a town center development that features offices, a hotel, shops, single family homes, carriage homes, town homes and apartments. These are arranged in different subdivisions/neighborhoods which each have their own home owners association or condominium association depending on how they were originally set up. Each neighborhood has its own style and some are more desirable than others depending on location and floor plans. The Quarters is one of these more desirable neighborhoods located centrally within Chesterbrook. 3 Treaty Drive is close to the shops and Open Space, the homes here have one car garages, and spacious floor plans.

Chesterbrook is close to

Valley Forge Park accessible by walking paths, several shopping areas including King of Prussia Mall, several well known Main Line Restaurants including Nectar, Georges, Margaret Kuo's, Teresas and Christopher's to name a few and close to major routes such as the PA turnpike, 202, 476 for access to Philadelphia airport and the Schuykill Expressway for access to downtown Philadelphia and Manayunk. Paoli, Devon and Wayne train stations are only minutes away as well.

For full details go to http://3TreatyDrive.VandekarTeam.com

Tuesday is our Broker's Open tour day, here on the Main Line, where as a Realtor you can get to see recently listed homes or those homes that have been on the market for a while and the agent is hoping to re-energise and remind you about. Each area has certain times when homes are open so you can plan your route and catch as many homes as possible. Over the summer these times are not always held to by the agents as there are less Realtors out working or so it seems as I see less agents out and about.

I try to view every home in the Tredyffrin and Easttown townships that comes on the market, whether I have a client for it or not. I try to do the same for Radnor as well so that if a client calls on one of these homes I have seen it. Obviously, having your own listings makes this hard to do on Broker's Open and then I make appointments for myself and my wife to go visit so we have seen the homes.

This week I was surprised by how few homes were on tour, plus how many of those on tour I had already seen before.  I ended up going to see 6 homes, from town homes to multi million dollar homes.

The town home was of particular interest as it was in a development where I recently sold a home in Chesterbrook, priced at $374,900 I thought it seemed a little high, and these thoughts were confirmed when I visited. The home was much smaller than the unit I sold and although it shows very well, it is described as a 3 bedroom unit, which it is not, it has two bedrooms plus an open loft area which can be enclosed to make a third bedroom. The unit I sold had a walk out lower level backing to open space, this had a very small yard, backing up to another unit, mine also had a wonderful large deck that wrapped around the unit as it was also an end unit. So it will be interesting to see what develops with this unit over a slow summer season.

I visited two other homes in Berwyn, one on Potter Ave. which was recently re-listed and has a lot of potential but the location leaves a little to be desired, but some work on re-habbing and curb appeal will go a long way, a low offer on the $349,900 asking price may also be needed. The other home on Midland was a new listing by a friend Linda Theuer from Prudential Fox and Roach, nice street, filled with split levels, priced well at $399,900 for a roomy home but with the summer season the timing may be against it, so price may end up dropping to get it sold.

I moved from here to Wayne visiting an old colleague Linda Lee who had just listed a very nice home on Maple Glen Road for $1,250,000, five bedrooms three and a half baths with a very open floor plan which is the result of remodelling and additions. It felt a little choppy where the dining room has been placed, but overall the home felt well looked after. The bathrooms were still a little tired and probably needed some more work on them as well. However, the home lacked a formal sitting room, which I read more and more is a wasted space as less people want it, but there was a member of the public looking at the home whilst I was there who seemed to feel this was important. I always wonder how often people use their formal living room and how much a great or family room attached to a kitchen.

From Maple Glen I went to visit some new construction town-homes on Exeter, the model was lovely but these homes were priced the same as Maple Glen and had only two bedrooms, possibly three if you used a room on the ground floor as a third bedroom. It felt a lot of money for what it was.

My final home of the day was over on the other end of Tredyffrin on Weadley, the home came on the market at the end of last week and was already under offer. This gives me a moment to discuss the new way our MLS lists homes that are under contract. We have removed the Active with Contract designation and homes are either active or pending. Lots of people are still confused by these different designations but simply put if the home can still be shown it is active, if not it is pending. What is declared is that if it is active but has an offer subject to a contingency this is shown more clearly. So a home is active if the listing has received an offer but it has a home for sale contingency attached, or a home inspection or mortgage contingency. The home showed well in the photos, in reality it seemed a little tired, with bathrooms and kitchen needing some freshening up, but was well priced at $619,000.

Well as the weather warms up in these northern climes business is also beginning to pick up. This weekend we listed two homes for sale.

The first priced at $411,000 is in Devon and is a delightful Pennsylvania field stone charmer. 3 beds and 1 1/2 baths it has a great flat lot. You can see more details at 320 Old Lancaster Road. This home has a great location which is perfect for access to all major routes and close to great shopping.

The other home we listed is in Paoli, in Valley Green also a very nice home with a fantastic swimming pool and great landscaping around the home. The inside is not too shabby either with tiled entry way a nice bright kitchen and good size for all the bedrooms. Priced at $609,000 this is great value. Check out the link and come see us at an Open house soon.

We have another listing coming soon in Chesterbrook, a 4 bed 2 full bath and 2 half bath condominium end unit backing up to open space. So if you have a buyer, or if you want a home with a ground floor master keep checking our website for information.