About Me

I often meet with clients and friends over lunch or coffee and asked their professional opinions about Northern Virginia real estate, marketing and technology. With such a diverse clientele over the past 19 years of selling homes, I get plenty of great input from the group that often will open my eyes and jump started my creative thoughts. The results are here in my blog/web site. My objective is to have relevant real estate information that is newsy, informative, contains video, an MLS search site, and a platform that lets me share my experiences, my opinions and my dry sense of humor to its best.

All content is generated by me, Doug Francis, unless otherwise noted when I have a guest writer. Ultimately, you the reader should feel that any post has given you a unique insight into the topic and be better prepared to discuss specific real estate questions either with me or your agent anywhere in the U.S. There is also more on my FAQ‘s page… but finish this one first.

New blog posts are accessible through the automatic RSS feeder in the upper right hand corner, and to any of your friends that I hope you will send to the site. The majority of my real estate clients come to me through personal referrals from friends and past clients, but this blog is intended to help anyone learn a lot about the Northern Virginia real estate market, and establish me as your professional contact to fall back to when you have gone through the numerous web-real-estate-search-sites/apps and decide it is time for some actual professional help.

You can always try me on my phone, 703-304-6827 or at doug@DougFrancis.com , and please give me an idea of when and how you would like me to follow up. I’ll try my best.

Doug Francis, Professional Real Estate Experience:

I have had a Virginia Real Estate License since 1991 working in the suburban Washington DC metro area. And have personally sold over $100,000,000 in sales volume by myself without a bunch of team members contributing their production numbers to my record… ask me. I act as a Listing Agent when clients are selling a home, and work as a Buyer’s Agent when a client is purchasing a home.

• RE/MAX Presidential from 1994 to the present
• RE/MAX International Hall of Fame Member
• Northern Virginia Association of Realtors Million Dollar Club
• NVAR Life Member Top Producers Club
• National Association of Realtors Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) since 1995
• Town & Country Realtors from 1991 to 1994, Vienna Office

Prior Experience:

• Putnam Investments on High Street in Boston
• Feron’s Tennis Shop on Newbury Street in Boston
• Boston University, B.A. in History

Other:

• Native Rhode Islander, enjoy sailing and spending time in Narragansett
• Coach a Vienna Boys U13 lacrosse team
• Volunteer in North East Vienna Citizens Association
• PTA Volunteer at Wolftrap Elementary School in Vienna
• 30+ gallon blood donor (they keep track at Inova, you should donate too!)

I currently live in Vienna, have also lived in Oakton and in McLean. My real estate focus has been Northern Virginia including Alexandria, Arlington, Annandale, Burke, Centreville, Clifton, Dunn Loring, Fairfax, Fairfax City, Great Falls, Herndon, Leesburg, McLean, Oakton, Reston, and Vienna. If you are new to the area, these places are in Arlington County, Fairfax County,  Loudoun County and Prince William County.

You can contact me right now for more information.

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