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The rate at which new foreclosure/bank-owned and short-sale listings are entering the market in Loudoun County remains steady. Here are the numbers:January 2008 saw 310 new foreclosure/bank-owned and short-sale listings come on the market. That's 10 new ones per day.February 2008 had 289 come on ...

Lem Marshall, Special Counsel for the Virginia Association of Realtors gave a presentation this morning called "Advanced Short-Sales". It proved to be an excellent presentation that probably should have been called "What Realtors REALLY need to know about short-sales to successfully deal with one...

A few days ago, I found out that KB Homes was pulling out of their Martin's Chase community in Loudoun County. Since then, a fellow Loudoun County real estate agent, Heather Elias reports on her blog, LoCo Real Estate Musings that Equity Homes and Basheer & Edgemoore are also on the way out the d...

KB Homes is pulling out of it Martin's Chase community in Loudoun County, as well as the entire mid-Atlantic region due to poor market performance. KB Homes said the move will help it hold on to cash reserves and ride out the housing crash.The builder has 5 communities in the mid-Atlantic region ...

A final walk-through inspection is important to all buyers because it's your last chance to inspect the property before closing. The whole point of the walk-through inspection is to protect yourself and your future property from sellers that may not have lived up to the terms of the contract. If ...

Many agents are advertising their listings here on Active Rain. Is Active Rain the forum to do so? I don't think so. I think that it just clutters things up and makes us look even more like just sales people and not real estate consultants and professionals, as we should be.Consumers are here to ...

Friday, April 4, 2008 marked the first ever BloggerCon at the Dulles Association of Realtors (DAAR) in Leesburg, Virginia. Our host was Ben Martin, Director of Communication and New Media, Virginia Association of Realtors. There were almost 30 Realtors from around the area, including southern Vir...

On March 28, 2008, five Realtor bloggers from across Virginia, including myself, had the priviledge of having lunch and a candid conversation with Dr. Lawrence Yun, NAR's Chief Economist. The lunch was put together by Scott Brunner, CEO of the Virginia Association of Realtors (VAR). Those in atte...