Understanding inventory pressure
Really, what's the deal? Have you been looking at homes recently only to find that the listing you saw on Trulia.com Wednesday afternoon is now under-contract? Well, that's been a problem for many… [more]
11837 Robertson Farm Circle Fairfax Virginia
Walk to Starbucks! Update: This home sold in December 2011 New on the Fairfax Virginia real estate market October 26th. Yes, this home is in excellent condition and ready for you to move into quickly! 4… [more]
How to Get Your Home Ready to Sell in 30 Days
As the new year arrives, so should a flurry of homes that have been waiting out the traditionally slow holiday season. If your home is one of them, I hope you took advantage of the last thirty days to… [more]
So your Vienna home still hasn’t sold…
After 60 days on the market you may start to panic... or take it personally. Been there, seen it before. It is hard to be rejected by 25 people. At REALTOR training school, the instructors tell us… [more]
Vienna VA Real Estate Stats | 2011
The Vienna VA real estate market gets broken down by the three zip codes that cover the Vienna mailing address. As you can easily see from these three charts of the three Vienna Zip Codes, 22180, 22181,… [more]
Yes, it’s your Second Showing
When a home buyer decides to look at a home again, agents will call this a "second showing". Sometimes a third or fourth showing might be needed before a home buyer makes the decision to write up an offer,… [more]
Understanding inventory pressure
Really, what’s the deal? Have you been looking at homes recently only to find that the listing you saw on Trulia.com Wednesday afternoon is now under-contract? Well, that’s been a problem for many home buyers in Northern Virginia this year (2012) and it appears to be a systemic issue affecting the broader real estate market. [...]
Luxury Home Builders betting on Vienna Virginia
While having lunch at Panera last week, I spotted a local home builder who I first met at my daughter’s pre-school years ago and called him over to chat. After a brief introduction to the crew at my table, he launched into the number of builders who are now aggressively working the Vienna Virginia real [...]
Want to know about Flight Paths?
One of the benefits to living in Northern Virginia is that you can get a flight almost anywhere in the world at one of the local airports. Each of these “local airports” qualifies to be in the top-tier of U.S. airports for passenger traffic and daily flights. Recently, when a real estate client from Texas [...]
An Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Vienna, VA
Over the weekend when I took my dog into the new Petco in Vienna, VA to browse for some new puppy toys, we literally walked right into my first encounter with a car charging station. I have probably walked by this little power station a dozen times without noticing it, but I am sure that [...]
Let’s Review those Closing Costs Again
Update: Today’s Washington Post (2/12) has a revised advertisement from the credit union that was the subject of this blog post, stating that they will pay $10,000 toward closing costs. Not the $100,000 that they previously advertised. ORIGINAL POST: When a real estate client came to me all pumped up because his Credit Union was [...]
The Real Estate Brochure, too basic?
Recently, when a client was interested in putting together an offer on a particular house we had seen, he asked me if I had picked up a brochure. “No I didn’t. Did you?” Since neither of us had one I decided to contact the listing agent to ask her to email one over to me [...]
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