What a nice way to celebrate Labor Day! Special thanks to all my clients that helped me to a top 50 finish amongst all the RE/MAX agents in Virginia. It's an acknowledgement of the labor we engaged in as a team to bring about so many successful real estate endeavors. It's super cool [...]
August Market Update and Newsletter Is the Northern Virginia Real Estate Market Frozen? The Northern Virginia real estate market continues to move through one of the most peculiar periods in recent memory - one defined by contradiction, hesitation, uncertainty, and in some instances intense competition. Why, you may ask? There are several factors [...]
The market is on vacation along with us....sort of You know we are heading towards a more balanced market when the normal annual ebbs and flows of the calendar manifest themselves in the market. We are back to the last week of July and the first 3 weeks or so of August being [...]
Why Aren't You Moving? In the 1950s and 60's, some 20% of Americans moved each year. That rate has been declining steadily since I got into the business 36 years ago, and has now dropped the last two years to a staggeringly low rate of about 7.8%. That means we went from moving [...]
Time to Get Off the Fence! Sometimes in the process of observing and interpreting all the different market and economic trends and their impact on our local real estate market, a real moment of overwhelming clarity emerges. This week was one of those instances. It's a unique situation where most of the objections [...]