Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Feeling Trapped in Your Home By Your Low Mortgage Interest Rate? There are plenty of home owners out there right now that would love to sell a home they have outgrown, but feel they must stay in the home they currently own because it was financed on a lower interest rate. In the much bigger Read More …
If a Hot Tub is Listed as a Feature of a Listing… Touring properties with my buyer clients I get to see some pretty interesting things. While floor plans do not typically vary all that widely in our Northern Virginia market, the level to which owners prepare their homes for market certainly does. Of all Read More …
A Day In the Life of This Real Estate Agent Saturday, June 3, 2023 was a day with no buyers to take on property tours. Does that mean I stayed home and cleaned? Judging from the picture above yes, but not my own home. My sunny Saturday was spent readying a listing with an incredible Read More …
Not All Settlement Delays or Low Appraisals are Cause for Concern When 9705 Cheshire Ridge hit the market on May 5th (2023) it was the only garage townhouse for sale in all of Manasas, Bristow and Gainesville that weekend. It was not surprising that, during their four days on the market the home got six Read More …
Gainesville Condo Seller Reaches Record High Sold Price Having been a full-time real estate agent in the Gainesville area since 2005, one of the neighborhoods that our area witnessed have major problems during the market crash of 2008 and beyond was Parks at Piedmont South Condos. The builder went bankrupt before the end of the Read More …
Just Listed in Manassas: Garage Townhouse for $459,000 As I type this post to share my newest listing at 9705 Cheshire Ridge Circle, a quick MLS (multiple listing service) search in Gainesville, Bristow and Manassas reveals that this townhouse is your only option for purchase this weekend if you are looking for a one car Read More …
Condos Can Still Go Under Contract in a Matter of Days Just a few days ago I shared my latest listing at 14664 Shelford Way in Gainesville. It hit the market priced at $362,500 on April 21st (2023) and had an amazing amount of interest. There were plenty of visitors through the two Open Houses Read More …
Just Sold in Manassas: An As-Is Success Story Every once in a while listing agents encounter situations where the typical listing advice is not something that works for our seller-clients. Take for instance the story of a home I sold in Alexandria at the end of 2022. Walking inside, the home was in dire need Read More …
Is It Happening Again? As 2023 began, Northern Virginia real estate agents were wondering if the pause in the market that happened in the last third of 2022 was going to continue. Interest rates had more than doubled during 2022, but going into 2023, they had eased a bit. Were they back in the threes Read More …
Do Sellers Always Take the Highest Offer? If a seller is reviewing multiple offers on a home, the first thing that becomes the focus is price. How much does each offer net them? Once that burning question is answered, other questions come up. In the case of the townhouse that I closed today in Bristow, Read More …