Meet Mark Wade
Mark Wade, Seller Representative Specialist
Prudential Fox and Roach Realtors
CenterCityCondos.com Owner/Team Leader
Email: Mark@CenterCity.com Phone: 215.521.1523
During the late 1980s, Mark fell in love with the Philadelphia real estate market. The first condo he bought for himself was in Old City. Working with bank foreclosures on multi-unit buildings, Mark began to carve his niche as a condominium specialist. Since that time, Mark has progressed into helping developers turn apartment buildings into condominium buildings. Having been inside countless condos in the Center City real estate area, Mark is intimately familiar with the available properties. Mark prides himself and impresses others of his vast knowledge of what’s trendy and knows which finishes buyers look for when selecting a home…. so much so that he’s been seen on HGTV’s What You Get For The Money, CN-8′s Money Matters and was the 2005 winner of Philadelphia Magazine’s Kitchen of the Year contest.
Click here to see Mark and Jim on HGTV’s What You Get For The Money
Published Quotes:
Phillynews.com – July 2004: “You could have your next Old City, Hip, chic and filled with great new shops and residences. Only in the past year have we gotten specific requests for condos on Chestnut Street, west of Broad”
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 2007: “There has been much improvement this week alone, which I believe is the result of pent-up demand from buyers who stayed out of the market in 2006″
Philadelphia Inquirer – December 2007: Locally, real estate blogs are emerging, but none has gained a national readership like Curbed.com. Realtor/condo developer Allan Domb launched a blog over the summer “to promote Center City living,” he said. Realtor/mortgage broker Fred Glick has a blog , as does Realtor Mark Wade (http://blog.centercitycondos.com/).
Philadelphia Inquirer – January 2008: Veteran Philadelphia Realtor and flipper Mark Wade says that while the shows have some educational value, they make things appear easier than they are in real life.
Philadelphia Business Journal – February 2008: “I’ve had an 11-day run selling a condo a day beginning the day after the Super Bowl.”
The Pennsylvania Realtor – March 2008: “I try to throw in some humor and honesty (in my blogs). I want to demonstrate a level of honesty and establish credibility with consumers.”
US Airways Magazine – July 2008: “Philadelphia has always been the tortoise in the story of the tortoise and the hare…It’s always been a slow and steady climb in value”
Philly Style Magazine – July 2008: “It (my blog) kind of makes my job easier because the information is out there and buyers and sellers can kind of preview it before they make a move.”
Philadelphia Inquirer – August 2008: “At the low-rise end of the condo market, there isn’t much evidence of sales incentives right now. Give it another few months at the sign of the first frost, and I think we will be seeing a lot more incentives from developers.”
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 2008: “I am currently involved with one specific deal where the appraiser has insisted on making three return trips to the condo being financed and is still contending that the mirror touch-up paint and tile work be completed before he gives the bank the OK for the bank to release or sign off on the loan.”
Real Estate-A Supplement to The Jewish Exponent – October 2008: “In an up-rising market, everyone has an idea, but not all of those will happen, and it has to do with the banks. If a project doesn’t hit its presale target, it’s dead in the water until the next business cycle.”
In Your Prime – May 2009: “Mark Wade, the owner of the Philadelphia Real Estate firm Center City Condos, believes that a perfect storm has taken shape in the City where 55+ home buyers are concerned.”
Philadelphia Inquirer – June 2009: “The One-bedrooms almost all sold, and sold well, while disproportionately, the larger, more expensive units have sat on the market.”
The Metro - June 2009: “First-time buyers aren’t burdened with selling their last home to buy a new condo. The move-up market is contingent on prior sales so it’s more stagnant”
Additional quotes:
Philadelphia Inquirer – July 12, 2009 – Murano Auction Fails to Spark Condo Market
Philadelphia Inquirer – August 27, 2009 – New Home Sales in July up Nearly 10%
Philadelphia Inquirer – September 13, 2009 – Condo Sellout a Chinatown Success Story
Philadelphia Inquirer – November 1, 2009 – The Word on Condos: Ambiguous
A graduate of Bowling Green School of Business in Northwestern Ohio, Mark began selling in Philadelphia (Society Hill real estate and other Center City areas) in 1989 and has been in love with it ever since. He still resides in a low rise, four unit condominium building in Old City and loves the area!
Email Mark Wade at mark@centercity.com anytime for help with your real estate needs.
