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2011
Home Value Roller Coaster of Northern Virginia The Sun Gazette, a publication in Northern Virginia, has been annually tracking since 1975 these statistics: the average home sales price, the total number of sales, the total volume of home sales as well as the change year over year of this da...
01/31/2011
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GPS and Real Estate When I began in residential real estate agents navigated from home to home the old fashioned way – with a paper map! When Global Positioning Systems (GPS) became available as units mounted on the dashboard, I acquired one. The GPS for me is a critical tool for the practi...
01/17/2011
The Real Estate Market and Interpreting Media Headlines We are all familiar with the expression: “read between the lines”. But what does it mean to read between media headlines as it relates to real estate? The purpose of a media headline is to “hook” the reader or viewer’s attention. The...
01/11/2011
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McLean and Great Falls 2010 Real Estate “A Tale of Price Recovery and Hope” By Karen Briscoe The predominant theme for the 2010 real estate market in McLean and Great Falls is that of price recovery. The number of closed sales was effectively flat: 885 total sales in 2009 and 882 total sale...
01/06/2011