Doug Francis Real Estate Blog in Vienna and McLean, Fairfax and Arlington with a little humor too. Easy Home Search too.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
$237,000 -
1536 Lincoln Way #301b
Mclean
$633,900 -
1911 Barbee St
Mclean
$1,695,000 -
1465 Mayhurst Blvd
Mclean
$1,699,900 -
1941 Valleywood Rd
Mclean
$749,000 -
1405 Pathfinder Ln
Mclean
$1,749,900 -
2026 Rhode Island Ave
Mclean
$199,900 -
8370 Greensboro Dr #202
Mclean
$309,000 -
1645 International Dr #213
Mclean
$169,900 -
7837 Enola St #1
Mclean
$674,900 -
6639 Kirkley Ave
Mclean
As Realtors rally in Washington D.C. this week to lobby Congress to help protect the American Dream, I started to think that the American Dream has become an overused industry slogan that sounds a little gimmicky. Wasn’t it Thomas Jefferson who downplayed the “ownership of property” language suggested by George Mason? In my opinion, the [...]
As I read Corey Hart’s blog post about Phoenix real estate values and the wacky statistical report posted on Trulia, I started to hear news reports just released about the Washington DC regional real estate market. To dig a little deeper, I looked at a subscription service called RBI which is produced by a division [...]
Twice in the past month I have sat with clients at closing and they asked, “where is the house survey?” The house location survey is an accurate drawing of the property that will show the corners, fences, driveway, house, shed, deck, or patio and include some very important measurements. Your lender doesn’t require it In [...]
One interesting thing about living in Northern Virginia is that your friends and family will be motivated to come and visit. With Washington D.C. just a short drive away (10 – 25 minutes on the weekend) and destinations like the Smithsonian, Air & Space Museum, National Archives or the Cherry Blossoms, who can blame them? [...]
It is time to tell you that there is one essential ingredient when it comes to marketing a house. Back when they first sent me to real estate agent boot camp in the days of telephone cold-calling, the sales gurus talked about condition, location, motivation and pricing before we were shown the Criss-Cross directory and [...]
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