Clarendon Day Sept. 25 Celebrates Arlington’s Original Downtown. Looks like it will be a beautiful day to be outside on Saturday so why not head on over to the 13th annual Clarendon Day festival! The Clarendon Day 5k and 10k races and a free kid’s dash kick off the festival in the morning. There’
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09/24/2010
3BR Ballston Townhouse SOLD for Sale – 504 N. Thomas Street, Arlington, VA Located in Thomas Street Mews, 504-G N. Thomas St., Arlington, VA, 22203, this 3-bedroom, 3-1/2-bath Arlington, VA, townhouse for sale is a sunny end-unit with a private patio and 1-car garage just blocks from the Ballston
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09/08/2010
3BR Ballston Townhome SOLD for Sale – 430 N. Park Drive, Arlington, VA This recently remodeled 3-bedroom Arlington, VA, townhouse for sale at Ballston Metro looks and lives like a brand new single-family home – not a townhouse. It’s priced to sell at $714,900. See photos and details at 430NParkDr
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09/06/2010
Arlington Va Housing Market Stats July 2010 – Home Prices Up 9.2% vs. July 2009 in Courthouse, Clarendon, Virginia Square and Ballston areas I saw the news in the papers (Washington Post: Sales of Existing Homes Plunge to 15-Year-Low), on the web and on television about the big drop in home sales
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08/25/2010
My August e-newsletter is now available. Below is an excerpt from the cover story (“10 ways to sell your home faster for more”). Here’s 5 ways to sell your Arlington home fast – for more: 1. Clean It Up A fresh coat of paint, clean windows, shampooed carpets and other smaller clean-up tasks can m
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08/03/2010
Short sale deals in Arlington, VA? While short sales and foreclosures only account for 8% of all homes listed for sale in Arlington currently (63 out of 778 on the market), a few of my clients have asked me recently if they should be looking at short sales to get good deal – and how low they coul
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07/18/2010
Freddie Mac reported that mortgage rates for Arlington, VA, home buyers hit a 50-year low last week. That’s great news if you are looking to buy a home in Arlington or refinance the mortgage you already have. What’s the rate? What's the rate? That depends on how much you borrow. Here are rates f
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06/29/2010
New rules for mortgage lenders that started this week make it more likely that a second check of your credit will occur right before closing. That means if you are buying a home you need to resist the urge to splurge on new things for your new home … until after you’ve closed on the loan. While I
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06/05/2010
May is National Moving Month. While that might seem like a joke … being ripped off by a rogue mover when you are moving your possessions and relocating to a new home certainly is not. Believe me. I’ve been through a bad moving experience when my husband was moving items from his mother’s home in
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05/19/2010
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to toughen standards for home loans. An amendment to the Wall Street reform bill now being debated would: Ban “no doc” or “liar’s loans” requiring lenders to document income and ensure borrowers can afford their loans. Stop hidden payments to mortgage brokers for s
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05/14/2010
