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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 more]
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 more]
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 more]
Preparing to sell a home: Understanding your target market
It is essential to understand today’s home buyers and how they perceive the market and search for homes. Image by DougFrancis via Flickr Home buyers today begin their search using the Internet often weeks before they look at homes to buy, and expect a well written description and easy to view pictures. If sites require registration to view photos then buyers move on quickly. They have also watched... [Read more]
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. 
