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If you're moving to or new to Loudoun County and don't know where many things are or want information about the area in general, check out The Washington Post's Local Explorer. Type in a specific address such as "43330 Junction Plaza Ashburn, VA" or just "Ashburn, VA" and you can find information...

Over at the Inman Blog they wrote a post about the new Department of Justice website that addresses their issues with competition in the real estate industry.  It shows a chart that illustrates the increase in commissions per transaction since 1998.There are three seriously flawed assumptions tha...

One question I get asked frequently by sellers of single family homes is whether or not to upgrade the kitchen countertops to granite.  The answer is yes if you want to sell your home for more money.  In fact, an analysis of the sales prices of similar homes shows that the average sales price of ...

Home buyers who obtain a mortgage have to pay "closing costs". Closing costs is the general term used to describe the various fees and expenses paid in order to obtain a mortgage. As a general rule of thumb, closing costs are between 2 and 3 percent of the gross purchase price. In order to see a ...

Loudoun County home sales for the month of September will more than likely be the lowest in almost 5 years. With only 2 days left in the month, total sales for Loudoun County stand at 215 and will finish somewhere near 250.  Not since December of 2002 have sales for the county been below 300 for ...

Sixteen schools in the DC/MD/VA area made the Top 100 list of the 2007 Washington Post Challenge Index, but none were from Loudoun County. The index measures a public high school's effort to challenge its students. The rating is not a measurement of the overall quality of the school, but illumina...

Even though we knew that the number of Realtors who wrote or read a blog was low (4 percent), we didn't realize how truly unaware or scared most Realtors were of blogs. But as we're here at the 2007 Virginia Association of Realtors Convention in Williamsburg, VA acting as "Social Media Techs", we...