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Are We In A Buyer’s Market?

Navigating the Shifts in the Northern Virginia Housing Market: A Move Toward Balance The Northern Virginia housing market, once characterized by feverish activity and soaring prices, is undergoing a notable transformation. As we move further into 2024, the dynamics of buying and selling homes in this region are shifting from ...

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Putting Your Home In A Trust

WHY A LIVING TRUST A living trust, also known as a revocable trust, is a legal document that allows you to transfer ownership of your assets, including your home, into a trust while you are still alive. You can manage and use these assets as you normally would, and you ...

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Optimistic About The Housing Market

Why the Economy Won’t Tank the Housing Market If you’re worried about a coming recession, you’re not alone. Over the past couple of years, there’s been a lot of recession talk. And many people worry, if we do have one, it would cause the unemployment rate to skyrocket. Some even ...

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People Still Need to Move

People Are Still Moving, Even with Today’s Affordability Challenges If you’re thinking about buying or selling a home, you might have heard that it’s tough right now because mortgage rates are higher than they’ve been over the past few years, and home prices are rising. That much is true. Take a look at the graph below. It breaks ...

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46572 River Meadows Ter

For Rent 46572 River Meadows Ter, Sterling, VA 20165 $3,000/month GORGEOUS RENTAL OPPORTUNITY! You will love this completely renovated, end-unit townhome in Sterling. It’s so bright and open and the updates are stunning. Ready to show on Thursday, September 28.   ⭐ Open concept main level 🛏 3 spacious bedrooms ...

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Real Estate Fraud #2

The Buying And Selling Of Your Mortgage Loan My last blog post talked about wire fraud scams. If you missed it, you can read it here: Wire Fraud Scams. When you finish signing the closing paperwork on your new home, your settlement packet will include a payment coupon that you ...

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Countryside Homes Up 10%

For the 2nd quarter of 2022 in Countryside, on average, home prices are up 10% from this time last year. We anticipate that prices will level off (not drop) and get back to pre-pandemic appreciation averages of 3-5% / year.   But are you worried about what the potential recession ...

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Recession Does Not Mean Housing Crash

All of the headlines are talking about a recession and for many of us, we fear that must mean a housing crash as well. Fortunately, the experts say this is not the case because what caused the crash in 2007/2008 is not what is happening in our current market. History ...

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Market Update for Loudoun

The Dulles Area Association of REALTORS® released their February market report and here are the highlights. The Median Sales Price was $628, 306,  up 7% from this time last year.  This is on top of the 16% increase we had in February of 2021.  Just to put it in perspective, ...

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