Forget About Square Feet Think Room Sizes
At least a couple of times a week someone asks why does Zillow or Trulia shows their Northern Virginia home as only 1500 square feet (SF) when it’s really 2500 SF. The answer is fairly straightforward.  These sites ( and many others) pull information for the county tax records.  In most cases our tax records ... [Continue Reading]

What’s Missing From This NoVA Floor Plan?
It may be hard to tell but it appears the term “master bedroom” is now being replaced with the term “owners suite”  by local builders.  Since we sell a good deal of new construction around Northern Virginia I went back through our archives of floor plans.  It appears the change started about 2 years ago  ... [Continue Reading]

NoVa Sellers Don’t Forget The Little Things
Thinking of listing your Northern Virginia home for sale? In previous posts we mentioned how Bad MLS Photos may keep buyers away from your home now here is what you need to do when the buyer heads to your front door. Make sure they aren’t turned off immediately by what they see when they open ... [Continue Reading]

Bad MLS Photos Will Keep Buyer’s Away From Your Home
The facts are very clear.  Most Northern Virginia buyer’s today start their search for a new home on line.  The number continues to rise but the latest statistics show 90% of buyers will spend a few months looking on-line before they call a Realtor® to help them start the serious process of home buying. What ... [Continue Reading]

Step one – Determine a reasonable selling price The first step is to get a CMA for your Northern Virginia neighborhood.  An excellent agent will research the recent sales of comparable houses in your neighborhood to provide you with a market analysis (CMA) and also provide you with an impartial assessment of your property and ... [Continue Reading]

Low Inventory in Woodbridge VA & Around the Nation
The numbers speak for themselves.  Except for the summer seasonal bump housing inventory in Woodbridge VA has contineud to slide downward over the last year. But what does Woodbridge VA inventory have to do with the rest of the nation?  It’s just one example of how inventory of homes for sale has declined.  Recently the ... [Continue Reading]

Does My NoVA Home Need To Be Builder Beige To Sell?
I admit I get a chuckle out of the term builder “beige.”   The one thing you notice when you go into most model homes is the lack of beige.  Most buyers are drawn to the colorful rooms and furnishings.   Builders don’t shy away from color to sell their homes and neither should you.   Within ... [Continue Reading]

The NoVa Market Is A Roller Coaster Ride-Hold On
Recently an article on realestate.com entitled Riding the Trillion-Dollar Real Estate Recovery Roller Coaster stated nationwide the housing crash had cost homeowners a combined total of over 9 Trillion Dollars in home value.  It’s a number that’s hard to wrap your head around. However it easy easier to take a look at the local market ... [Continue Reading]

With the election rhetoric in full swing it is getting harder and harder to know which “spin” to believe.  However when it comes to Northern Virginia real estate an agent doesn’t need to create any spin.  They can provide you with loads of data to back up their claims…or can they? This week a market ... [Continue Reading]

Over the weekend I was talking to an active duty service member who wanted to know about selling his home as a short sale.  As we talked I asked my standard questions;  when did you buy your home, when did you get PCS orders and what did you pay for your home?   When he ... [Continue Reading]



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