The real estate market catches a hint of Spring 2010
Image via Wikipedia We had a bright and sunny weekend here in Northern Virginia, and a surge of home buyers were out looking at the homes for sale that had popped up late Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. A little marketing tip is to put a home into the MLS database Thursday to feed all the IDX sites out there that send e-mails to registered home buyers. Our MLS, actually the Metropolitan... [Read full article]
McLean VA Home Sales Stats | Hyper Local January 2010
Image by DougFrancis via Flickr The national home sale data that has come out recently, like the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and local data have been all over the place giving a confusing picture of the local real estate market. Here, I am going to look at the McLean, Virginia zip codes 22101 and 22102 real estate sales for January 2010. Although our memories aren’t always accurate,... [Read full article]
Vienna, VA Home Sales Stats | Hyper Local January 2010
Image by DougFrancis via Flickr The national home sale data that has come out recently, like the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, and local data have been all over the place giving a confusing picture of the local real estate market. Here, I am going to look at the Vienna, Virginia zip codes 22180 and 22182 real estate sales for January 2010. But please know that this information is reported from... [Read full article]
Helping prepare a 40 year-old home to sell
Image by SharkeyinColo via Flickr A significant number of the homes in Northern Virginia were built in the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s. Yes, a lot has been built since then, but the building booms in those times constructed significantly smaller homes and much faster.The total number of homes built in the 1970’s alone outpaces the most recent boom time. Best of all, they were... [Read full article]
Your house has an ice dam? Part 2
Today everyone seemed to be having issues with ice dams clogging their gutters causing all sorts of water problems in their homes. Melting water from your roof hits your gutters and refreezes when temperatures are below freezing for an extended period of time. Most water flows over the ice forming icicles, but it slowly builds up until the water begins to flow back into your home. Isn’t gravity... [Read full article]
Your house has an ice dam?
One of the problems of having too much snow and below freezing temperatures for a week is the gutter ice dam. This happens when the gutter stops draining due to compacted snow or a block of ice. Then, the warm air escaping from your home generates just enough heat to melt the snow pack causing the gutter to fill with water. Hopefully it flows out, and not back in… You have probably seen how a... [Read full article]
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Since I started selling real estate in 1991, there have been up and down markets. Northern Virginia areas like Vienna, Oakton and Tysons have some excellent home buys right now. Start with my MLS Search then let's talk. Read more.
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