February 4, 2012

Real Estate’s New Strategic Focus | April 30, 2010

Revised to include new 5405 instructions The world of residential real estate in the U.S. is facing an expiration date of historic proportions in 2010 that buyers and sellers need to pay attention to for a variety of reasons. April 30, 2010 is the last day that buyers and sellers can “enter into a binding [...]

It’s a Home Buyer’s Market, right?

Well, not really in Northern Virginia! In the grand scheme of things, we should see home buyers having the best of times with this real estate market. The available home buyer tax credits, home prices are the lowest in years, mortgage interest rates are still around 5%, spring is in the air… okay, that’s a [...]

There’s some fudge in those NAR home sales numbers

Image via Wikipedia REVISED As I was driving over to my office today, I heard on WTOP exciting new statistics released by the National Association of Realtors about pending home sales jumping last month. Of course I like that news since I’m in the home-sale-biz, but I feel like there is a considerable amount of [...]

Best home buyer’s market in 20 years!

Revised: The Home Buyer Tax Credit was extended and home buyers need to have written contracts by April 30, 2010 and close by June 30, 2010. I wrote an update post on the expanded tax credit for home buyers and you need to take a look at that too if you hope to use it [...]