The weather has been fantastic and this body surely needs to get back into the swing of things. One of the biggest pleasures I get is biking on the W&OD and ending either at Trail's End Cycling Company in Purcellville or, when time permits, I continue to Leesburg or Ashburn. Now that sum
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09/03/2009
Love this halarious video from Home Crisis Investigation with Jon Stewart . All of us have been involved in asking our home owners for a price reduction or have seen listings that have sat on the market for what seems to be an eternity. One of my clients who moved from Florida wanted to rent h
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09/02/2009
Wild Mustangs, what does that have to do with Real Estate? This market has made so many of us crazy. Writing contracts on short sales and foreclosures, and NOT having them accepted because a buyer is a first-timer and cannot escalate to the price they need to in order to compete or they have an
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08/25/2009
Curious about making an offer on a short sale? I have advised my buyers that most of the time their waiting period ends in disappointment and no accepted contract. However, we are seeing more going to settlement than before. I have yet to hear any good stories about offers made on short sales
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08/16/2009
Spotlight on Leesburg One thing high on my daughter's priority list before leaving for her first year at college was to care of this "growth" that came, believe it or not, from getting her eyebrows waxed at a nail salon. Apparently they had the wax too hot which burned the delicat
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08/09/2009
Buyers are now realizing they might just have missed out on the bottom of the market! According to the latest NAR research and what we have been seeing here, Many buyers in the lower price ranges are finding multiple offers on some properties. We have seen a strong rebound in sales the first qua
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08/03/2009
As my first- time buyers sat at closing yesterday, their comments were, "this was easy!" The sellers nodded in agreement as they thought about the commissions they were paying so they could sell their home and close on their new on in a few days. The settlement attorney replied, "that's because y
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07/29/2009
I thought I would share this video since I see a train wreck coming! There will not be any gold at the end of this rainbow for home sellers and purchasers. http://www.thinkbigworksmall.com/mypage/player/tbws/11895/3696
07/10/2009
The number of homes sold in April was 2,904, a 5.75% increase from April 2008. Stats are from the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors. Average sales price was $331,600 in April, less than the average home price in April 2008 which was $407,500. Our listings have decreased as I had mention
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06/02/2009
The past few months, I have been telling my buyers, yes you might need to make an offer equal to the sales price or possible higher if we find ourselves in a multiple offer position. This sounds a little skeptical to most new buyers coming on the market. after all, until recently, the media an
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06/01/2009
