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Like our market does not already have enough problems this year, now we have financing issues to watch out for too. I have been hearing over and over for the last few months about all the sub-prime issues, rising foreclosures, and plummeting home values but until yesterday it had not really effec...

The Fredericksburg market is anything but normal this year. Months that are normally good have been slow, and the normal slow months have been good. July's temperatures have been hot and so has our market! Let's hope the trend continues into the fall months too. Our buyers are slow to make a deci...

Since Memorial Day we have seen an up-tick in buyer traffic in our market and the sellers are finally starting to accept where we are in our market. It took almost 23 months for the sellers to understand that we are no longer in the crazy days of 2004. They are finally showing signs that they und...

Well here we are in the middle of June and what is considered to be the "hot" selling season and yet the only thing hot in our market is the temperature. There does seem to be a small up-tick in buyer traffic since Memorial Day, but right now it looks like most buyers are still so over-whelmed wi...

Exciting things are happening with the GET SOLD team. The Coldwell Banker year to date rankings posted today (5/17) and our team is Number 1 in Listings, Number 2 in AGC, and Number 3 in Closed Transactions! It is actually hard to believe, as bad as our market has been this year, our numbers are ...

Educated sellers are our best asset in a buyers market. As I talk with sellers and try to explain to them what it takes to get a home sold in our current buyers market, I am often amazed at the mentality of so many people trying to sell their home. It takes a clean, neutral home with the obvious ...

As the market continues to cool in the northern Virginia area, the over abundance of active licensed agents is finally starting to dwindle back down to more acceptable ratios. With the real estate boom of the last few years it seemed as if anyone who could breath was getting licensed and our prof...

Prices in our market have come down quite a bit over the last 18 months with prices where they were in early 2005, but getting everyone on the same page is still very difficult.In order to get any showings on listings, homes have to be priced at rock bottom and getting sellers to agree to that is...

This blog is to update past thoughts. First let me say that the home staging experience went great! We took a home that had been off and on the market for over a year with no offers, spent less than $2,000 on staging, and ratified a full price offer 4 days after completion! Thank you to Leslye an...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about home staging and how I was going to have a home staged to see if it was worth the expense. I promised to put before and after pictures here on the rain when the staging was completed. I am happy to say the job is now done and here are the results. Was it worth...