What Is The Condition Of The Housing Market?The housing market has made a full recovery, to be now within 1% of the values of the market in 2007. Back in 2007, 35% of the market was built on the shaky ground of lousy loans that were destined to crumble and fail from the day the loan applications
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06/25/2015
Find Out What Single Family Homes Sell For In Woodbridge VirginiaI was curious to know what single family homes, below the $700,000 luxury home market threshold, sell for in Woodbridge Virginia.So I logged in to the Metropolitan REALTORS Information Service (MRIS) and programmed the system to sea
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06/24/2015
A luxury home is a home priced in the top 5% of the market.In Woodbridge, the luxury home market is defined as single family homes, priced over $700,000, with 4+ bedrooms, 2+ bathrooms, a basement, a 2+ car garage, that is a standard sale (not a short sale or foreclosure).The average price for a
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06/24/2015
Our Multiple Listing Service, Matrix, covers a small portion of the nation. Just for fun, I looked up the sales volume over the past 30 days. Within Matrix, 12,978 houses have sold over the past 30 days, adding up to a total sales volume of $5,104,779,619. That works out to an average sold pri
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06/23/2015
Watch The Shores Club Video now for a glimpse of what is coming to Potomac shores next summer.If you've been following my blog you've noticed that I'm a big fan of the new community at Potomac Shores. Potomac Shores is like nothing else we have seen in Northern Virginia.First, let's watch the vi
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06/15/2015
There are more tools available than ever for the average person interested in buying or selling a home. The internet provides numerous resources for everything related to real estate – locating properties, viewing, listing, advice on buying and selling and even pricing calculators. Zillow is one
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06/09/2015
You want to buy a new home. You want a new home that is a quality home, built to the highest standards.How much time does it take to build a quality home? A home built in 90 days, 120 days, or 180 days?Take a guess....Do you know?What do you think?Builders and warranty companies agree that a ho
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06/09/2015
Home for sale in Lorton Virginia on Henry Knox Drive with three fully finished levels.This nearly new homes has 3-4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths on 3 finished levels. The lower level is light and bright with a walk-up from extra-wide doors to the fenced back yard. You get a large rec room downstairs, pl
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06/08/2015
Appraisers work hard for the money they earn. A typical appraisal comprises many pages, with lengthy narratives about the subjective property, and three other similar properties that were used to support the value of the subject property.New FHA rules for appraisals will dump a ton more work squ
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06/03/2015
How To Buy A Home In Woodbridge VirginiaI bet you've seen numerous websites that talk about various aspects of buying a house, but few of them put all of the pieces together. This post will cover everything from pre-approval for financing to post-settlement offers from insurance companies, in a
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05/14/2015
