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Dover & Kent County, Delaware Top 5 Home Sales: A New Cattail Creek Home Leads the Week

A newly built coastal contemporary, a lakeside home with a heated pool and a Cape Cod on more than an acre were among the week's top sales.

Dover & Kent County, Delaware Top 5 Home Sales: A New Cattail Creek Home Leads the Week

These are the highest-priced home sales reported in Dover & Kent County, Delaware for the week ending November 8, 2026, and together the five came to $3.17 million. Two of the homes are in Frederica, two are in Dover and one is in Felton, and every one of them has four bedrooms.

The group runs from a home finished in 2025, the only new construction among the five, to a Cape Cod built in 2000. Pools, finished basements and wooded settings turn up again and again, and two of the homes are near water, one with creek views and one with a wooded backyard that leads to a lake.

No. 1 — $739,900 · 54 Levee Ct, Frederica, Delaware

Top home sale No. 1 in Dover & Kent County, Delaware β€” 54 Levee Ct, Frederica, Delaware, week ending November 8, 2026

The newest home in this week’s Top 5 is in Cattail Creek, a community in Frederica, where a coastal contemporary built in 2025 sold for $739,900. Finished in stone and frame, the two-story home sits on a landscaped 0.29-acre lot on a cul-de-sac, with yard on the front, back and sides, a porch, a deck and a three-car attached garage that faces the side. Solar panels on the home are owned, not leased.

Inside, the 3,271-square-foot home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms, and three of those bedrooms are on the main level, including the owner’s suite, which has its own fireplace and walk-in closets. A stone fireplace anchors the great room, where a wall of windows brings in the light. The kitchen has an island, a pantry, a gas cooktop and double wall ovens, and it opens to a morning room and out to the deck. A loft is upstairs.

The home went under contract 28 days after it was listed. Jeff Foust and Zachary Evan Foust of Myers Realty were the listing agents, and Jim Wirick of Century 21 Gold Key-Dover represented the buyer in the week’s highest-priced sale.

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No. 2 — $720,000 · 72 Wildswood Rd, Dover, Delaware

Top home sale No. 2 in Dover & Kent County, Delaware β€” 72 Wildswood Rd, Dover, Delaware, week ending November 8, 2026

At 5,594 square feet, the contemporary in Fairfield Farms in Dover is the largest home in this week’s group, and it sold for $720,000. Built as a custom home in 2008, it is finished in stone and vinyl shake siding and sits on 0.74 acres on a cul-de-sac. Out back, a fenced and heated Gunite pool is set in extensive hardscaping beside a covered area for dining, and the wooded backyard leads to Moores Lake. Larger boats can go in at the Moores Lake Boat Ramp nearby.

The home has three stories, four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Ceilings rise 10 feet over hand-scraped engineered hardwood floors, and off the foyer are a formal dining room, an office and a full bath. The kitchen and living space share the center of the home with a gas fireplace, a custom bar and a built-in entertainment center, and the home is wired for surround sound and an intercom. The primary suite is on the main level, with two walk-in closets, a soaking tub, a walk-in shower, a double vanity and views of the pool and woods.

Upstairs, a built-in desk sits on the landing, and the bedroom closets are walk-ins, one with a bonus room behind it. The partly finished basement has a large game room, a craft room and a home gym, with high ceilings and walk-out stairs in the unfinished section. The property last sold for $175,000 in 2008.

Kyle McKean of Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. was the listing agent, and Mayra Santiago of Redfin Corporation represented the buyer.

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No. 3 — $637,500 · 120 N Lexington Dr, Felton, Delaware

Top home sale No. 3 in Dover & Kent County, Delaware β€” 120 N Lexington Dr, Felton, Delaware, week ending November 8, 2026

Lexington Mill in Felton is a neighborhood of 31 custom homes, and this Cape Cod on 1.33 acres, the largest lot in the week’s Top 5, sold for $637,500. Built in 2000, it is also the oldest of the five. The grounds are maturely landscaped, and behind the home a saltwater pool shares the yard with a gazebo and a pergola. The home also has a front porch.

The 3,150-square-foot home follows a traditional center-hall plan with Colonial detailing: wide-plank floors, dentil molding, oversized windows and two wood-burning fireplaces. French doors open from the foyer into the living room, and another pair leads to the formal dining room and the updated kitchen. Upstairs, the primary suite has a fireplace, two walk-in closets and its own bath, and two more bedrooms share a Jack-and-Jill bathroom. The finished lower level adds a large family room and the fourth bedroom, for four bedrooms and three bathrooms in all.

The home is minutes from Route 1, Bowers Beach and Killens Pond State Park. The property last sold for $355,000 in 2018.

Kimberly Morehart of Compass and Debra L Wetherby of Compass were the listing agents, and Nigel James Pokoy of Compass represented the buyer.

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No. 4 — $579,900 · 128 Albacore Dr, Frederica, Delaware

Top home sale No. 4 in Dover & Kent County, Delaware β€” 128 Albacore Dr, Frederica, Delaware, week ending November 8, 2026

A brick front with arches and keystones introduces this contemporary in Riverview Estates in Frederica, which sold at its full asking price of $579,900. Built in 2007 on 0.33 acres that back to trees, the home looks out on woods and a creek. The backyard centers on a heated, fenced inground fiberglass pool with a custom sliding cover, overlooked by a vinyl deck under an awning, with landscape lighting around the pool.

The two-story home has 4,839 square feet, four bedrooms and five bathrooms, the most bathrooms of the week’s five sales. A two-story foyer opens to formal living and dining rooms and a conservatory that can serve as an office or library. The kitchen has granite counters and a large island and runs into a morning room with skylights. Next to it, the two-story family room has a fireplace and a tall wall of windows.

Upstairs, the primary suite has vaulted ceilings, a large walk-in closet and a bath with a soaking tub and a custom tiled shower. Two bedrooms share a Jack and Jill bathroom, and the fourth has its own bath. The finished walk-out basement is set up like a second home, with a second kitchen and laundry area, a full bathroom, a recreation room, a bonus room and a home theater with stepped seating for seven. The property last sold for $562,500 in 2024.

Karyn Stant of Keller Williams Realty Central-Delaware was the listing agent, and Lindsey Cooke of Real Broker LLC represented the buyer.

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No. 5 — $492,000 · 56 Majill Ln, Dover, Delaware

Top home sale No. 5 in Dover & Kent County, Delaware β€” 56 Majill Ln, Dover, Delaware, week ending November 8, 2026

In Dover’s Twelve Oaks community, a contemporary built in 2001 sold for $492,000, above its asking price of $489,000. The two-story home has 3,071 square feet, four bedrooms and three bathrooms on a 0.54-acre lot, with a covered front porch and a Trex deck across the back.

French doors set off the formal living room, which opens into the family room. The great room has a fireplace and takes its light from the morning room beside it, and the kitchen has a center island and a pantry, with a laundry room on the first floor. All four bedrooms are upstairs. The primary suite adds a 19-by-13-foot sitting room, and its bath has a corner soaking tub and a separate walk-in shower. The full basement is unfinished. The property last sold for $338,000 in 2020.

Daniel Richardson and Chad Mitchell of Crown Homes Real Estate were the listing agents, and Lynn Williams of KW Empower represented the buyer.

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RealtyWire Top 5 reports are based on publicly reported residential sales and may not include every transaction. Information is subject to correction.Contact RealtyWire to verify or update professional credit.

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