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Are you getting direct results from your blogging efforts? Are you getting the same, fewer or greater results from blogging than other real estate bloggers? What is the correlation between things such as tenure, subscribers, quantity of posts and actual clients. These are the types of questions ...
08/14/2008
Are you getting direct results from your blogging efforts? Are you getting the same, fewer or greater results from blogging than other real estate bloggers? What is the correlation between things such as tenure, subscribers, quantity of posts and actual clients. These are the types of questions ...
08/14/2008
With all the hype and talk about foreclosure/bank-owned and short-sale properties, especially in Loudoun County, you're probably wondering what that segment of the real estate market is up to. Let's look at the statistics to find out... Supply/Inventory The number of foreclosure/bank-owned and s...
08/14/2008
Loudoun County is considering drastically increasing rezoning fees. This will directly affect individual landowners and developers as well as future home buyers. Why? Because it will increase the cost of new construction homes on land rezoned to residential or higher-density (e.g. rezoning from ...
08/14/2008
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Eat out in Loudoun County in order to help pay for schools? Sounds odd, doesn't it... Well, that's what Loudoun is proposing - a 4 percent meal tax on "prepared meals" that will go directly to Loudoun County public schools. Loudoun County officials are even saying that the money generated from t...
08/14/2008
As part at the $300 billion mortgage rescue plan, the House and Senate will approve a new, more permanent FHA conforming limit amount of $625,000. This is in an effort to help home buyers who need jumbo loans to borrow money at more affordable rates. The originial limit for the Washington, DC ar...
08/14/2008
Wondering how the Loudoun County real estate market is doing and what the statistics are? Curious as to how it did last month and how it compares to last month/last year? Well, there's good news... The Loudoun County real estate market is continuing to improve with inventory going down and buyer...
08/14/2008
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The cost of obtaining a loan just went up for a large number of borrowers. This week, Fannie Mae announced that it will double a fee that it introduced in December to compensate for the risks of doing business in what it calls an "adverse market." Fannie Mae first introduced the "adverse market ...
08/14/2008
After months of meetings and work by the Dulles Area Association of REALTORS® (DAAR) Technology and Communications Committees and various other DAAR staff including Ben Lizik (programmer), the new DAAR web site is up and running. The overall focus of the new site was to create greater engagement...
08/08/2008
Does "frustrated" describe how you feel when trying to search for foreclosure/bank-owned and short-sale properties online? You're not alone. Buyers often ask me why they can't just click a search field labeled "bank-owned" or "short-sale" and pull up those types of properties on listing sites. H...
08/08/2008