Has Fairfax County passed the under $300,000 range? At Buyer's Edge, I receive many calls from people who live out of town and are planning to move to the DC Metropolitan Area. They want to live near DC, near a metro, in the same size home they currently own and they want to pay about what they w
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02/19/2015
Real Estate Agents at Cocktail Parties When I was a kid I thought it was doctors who were asked for free advice by friends and neighbors who had mysterious aches and pains. Today I think real estate agents are in this category as well. When I'm at a kid's soccer game there are two types of parent
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02/18/2015
Today I received the weekly newsletter from my local real estate association, The Greater Capital Association of Realtors (GCAAR). The subject line was "Beware of the Zestimate." I clicked through to a Washington Post article titled "Zillow offers estimates of your house's value. But the error ra
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02/09/2015
Post Super Bowl Inventory At this time of year, buyers are always asking me, "When will I see new listings?" and "When will all the spring listings start to come on the market?" I always tell them that they start to show up the weekend after the Super Bowl. Yesterday I wrote a blog titled Post S
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02/03/2015