February 19, 2012

Understanding inventory pressure

Inventory Northern Virginia real estate five year snapshot

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

Building Lot 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?

Flight Path Northern Virginia

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

Vienna Virginia electric car charging station

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 [...]