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2009 

If you are a home buyer or seller in the Northern Virginia area, or relocating to the area, and....you are doing research to find a real estate agent that will be a really good choice, may I invite you to give our TESTIMONIAL VIDEO a quick view. It is a candid explanation - mostly from people we ...
05/24/2009
If you are a home buyer in the Chantilly and surrounding area, you don't often..maybe I should say ever...encounter Craftsman style new homes being built. But Brookfield Homes is breaking the mold with their new collection of homes in a gated community they are calling "Saranac." I toured the com...
05/18/2009
We mentioned a few weeks back that the national foreclosure stats were disproportionately represented by just a few states. That has been continued for a second month. RealtyTrac.com numbers show that a little over half of US foreclosures during April came from just three states:  California, Flo...
05/15/2009
Planning is fundamental to the long term success of any business, but people approach it in many ways, and with many levels of effectiveness. The residential real estate industry in no exception.  It encompasses a huge spectrum of individuals with very different talents, expectations. ambitions, ...
05/08/2009
We have all been told that the job loss stats are likely to continue their downward trend for awhile, so the fact that the economy shed 539,000 jobs in April, was not a big surprise. If there is any silver lining in that cloud, it is that it is about 10% better than predictions. After bottoming o...
05/08/2009
For two months in a row we've had the number of homes under contract to sell increase. I am referring to national statistics, but I have also noticed, at least in my own part of the real estate world here in Chantilly and the Northern Virginia area, that things have been up-ticking somewhat. As r...
05/06/2009
Real estate agents and others who work in the industry and are "in the trenches" day by day are positioned to see things happen before they show up as national statistics. Lately I have noticed more multiple-offer situations.  I have noticed this on the properties that are above average in terms ...
05/05/2009