Serving Northern Virginia
It was lucky number seven. Another military family with PCS orders out of the Northern Virginia area using the Department of Defense Homeowners Assistance Benefits (HAP) closed yesterday afternoon.
Perhaps I should clarify the Lucky Number Seven. That is the number of DoD HAP closings I’ve had the good fortunate to settle in 2010. There obviously [...]
The Virginia Rail Express (VRE) is introducing express train service starting in July 2010.
Luckily riders who use the Woodbridge Station will be able to take advantage of this new service. Originally the express train was going to bypass the Woodbridge station located at the entrance to Belmont Bay but after deliberation and political wrangling [...]
The clock is ticking. It can be heard loud and clear throughout Northern Virginia. The tax credit is expiring in four days. However there are those who might consider cheating and signing a contract on May 1st or May 2nd and back dating it to April 30th.
Please don’t go there. Though the tax credit is [...]
Buyer’s who are still waiting for the bottom of the market in the Port Potomac neighborhood in Prince William County may be in for a surprise. Prices for Port Potomac townhouses have made a significant bounce from Q1 2009 to Q1 2010. Port Potomac is one of the newer neighborhoods eastern in Prince William County [...]
Of course you have to be old enough to remember the video game Frogger to understand what Springfield commuters have been faced with long before Frogger was even created.
For commuters looking to take advantage of a free ride to DC from Springfield (aka slugging) the trick has been to park on one side of Old [...]
That’s right you can slug away in Northern Virginia and not spend a night in jail. When you hear someone in Northern Virginia mention slugging they are talking about just one of the ways that commuters in our area get into DC during rush hour. Our slug lines are famous around the country as a unique form of [...]
Years ago when I had a home built in the South Mountain Foothills outside of Phoenix I was thrilled with the wide open spaces behind my home. When I asked the developer if they had plans to build any more homes the answer was “no.” The key to their answer was “they” didn’t plan to [...]
For years Realtors® depended on the brochure box as a way to give drive by buyers an idea of what the interior of a home looks like.
This spring CJRealty Group introduced new custom signs for our listings and they have been a hit. Owners like them and more importantly prospective buyers driving through Northern Virginia neighborhoods [...]
Another Northern Virginia military family has gone to settlement with the assistance of the Department of Defense Homeowners Assistance Program (HAP).
When their home in the Port Potomac neighborhood in Prince William County went on the market we were less than 24 hours away from the second major snow storm in the Northern Virginia area. The [...]
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