Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
If at First You Don’t Succeed… The sellers market in Northern Virginia has been ripe with the tales multiple offers and buyers waiving whatever they can in order to be the one offer in a pile chosen by the seller. The tales of buyer remorse are those often quietly discussed between agents, largely hidden from Read More …
At the end of last week I was pleased to share my most recent listing at 10210 Bushman Drive with you. Talks with this seller started in June when a friend referred them to me to help with the sales process. At the time, it was too soon for them to even contemplate talking about Read More …
Just Listed: Large One Bedroom Condo in Convenient Oakton Location When I knew I would be listing 10210 Bushman Drive #302 in Oakton, a flood of memories came back from my childhood. I spent an entire summer in a condo with the exact same layout I am about to share with you. While that was Read More …
A Critical Skill for Listing Agents The Northern Virginia real estate market has been so overly seller favored for long enough that it seems there were two misconceptions in the late summer marketplace. 1) Sellers believe that the frenzied buyer behavior of the past two and a half years is a given and that their Read More …
“Was Anyone Ever Murdered or Did Anyone Die Here?” With Halloween coming up and skeletons seemingly around every corner in October, it is a great time to address a rather macabre subject that ocassionally comes up with buyers as they narrow down their home selection. It happened just this afternoon that a buyer asked, “Was Read More …
Just Sold in Gray’s Pointe When I first toured 12907-A Lee Jackson Memorial Highway in the Fairfax community of Gray’s Pointe, it was clear that the seller had two options. Sell strictly as-is with no improvement and let the market bear out whatever it would bring. To be blunt, it had electrical issues, broken appliances, Read More …
Buyers: Let’s Talk About Escalation Clauses Having been a full-time real estate agent in Northern Virginia since 2005, I have experienced more than the intense seller’s market of 2020-2022. Seller market conditions had been present in 2019, but the market was not as difficult to navigate as it became in 2020 and 2021 for buyers. Read More …
Under Contract in Fairfax It is no great surprise that I am sharing my seller’s success of getting under contract quickly at 12907-A Lee Jackson Memorial Highway When we first met regarding the sale of her home at the beginning of the year, she had some choices to make. The biggest choice was to sell Read More …
Just Listed: Renovated One Bedroom Fairfax Condo for $269,000 The wait to share this Grays Pointe condo in Fairfax is over. I have been anxious to share the finished product since renovations started over a month ago. Allow me to present 12907-A Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, priced at $269,000. Step down to a lower level Read More …
The Highest Price The Greens at Wescott Ridge Has Ever Seen The Greens at Wescott Ridge are a collection of condos that are structurally stacked townhouses. Two days before Christmas I received contact information for sellers at 11620-B Cavalier Landing who were ready to talk to a listing agent then and there. Two hours to Read More …