Northern Virginia & D.C. Real Estate Blog

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Before looking ahead, it's important to take a look back at real estate sales for 2010.  At the start of 2010, inventory of homes on the market was way down from 2009, prices were stabilizing, and the federal homebuyer tax credit was in play providing a deadline for many buyers an...

Are you wondering about Northern Virginia real estate and pondering what has sold recently? Here's some information about the most expensive home sales in Northern Virginia (Arlington County, Alexandria City, Fairfax City, Fairfax County, and Falls Church City) for November 2010.  All information...

Advertising in the newspaper is one thing.  Publicity is a whole different matter. One costs money.  The other's free.  One's fleeting.  The other's archived forever (or at least for a very long time). For the second time in just as many months, The Washington Post has published a neighborhood pr...

One of the most common questions that homebuyers ask when walking through potential homes has to do with whether certain items (e.g. the built-in shelves, the crystal chandelier, the window shades, the refrigerator) come with the home. Technical REALTOR-speak or legalese for this question is: Doe...

Last month, the average sales price of a home in Northern Virginia was $470,882.  For our purposes, let's round that up to an even $500K or half a million bucks. So, let's say you've got good credit, a decent downpayment, and the wherewithal to handle a mortgage of this size.  It's time to go sho...

Ship a package, make photocopies, pick up some lunch or dinner, relax your aching back with a massage, buy some fresh milk and grocries, and finally kick back with a cold beer.  How's that sound?  Like "living the dream", right? You can do all that and more when you purchase the wonderful condo t...

As of today, November 9, 2010, there are 318 condos on the market in Alexandria, Virginia.  This represents 45% of the total inventory of homes currently available in the City of Alexandria.  During the month of October, 51 Alexandria condos sold, a slight decrease from the 55 sales in September....

Here's some fast & fun facts about Fairfax County, Virginia: Population:  1,037,605 (as of April 2009) Size:  407 square miles.  395 square miles of land and 12 square miles of water Fairfax County has the 2nd highest median household income of any county of over 250,000 population in the United...

Are you wondering about Northern Virginia real estate and pondering what has sold recently? Here's some information about the most expensive home sales in Northern Virginia (Arlington County, Alexandria City, Fairfax City, Fairfax County, and Falls Church City) for October 2010.  All information ...

Has anyone told you that there's less inventory of homes on the market?  Have you heard that multiple offers are back?  That's the story in Northern Virginia.  You won't read it in The Washington Post.  You certainly won't hear it on CNN, MSNBC, or even FoxNews. However, that's the reality of the...