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June
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I Listed & Sold This Centreville Home (June 2020)

Another Buyer Breaking Through a Financial Ceiling!

Another Example of How Buying is Better than Renting!

Buyers Stand to Gain $1,784/mo in Wealth Accumulation!

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Categories: Buyers
May
17

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April Data Mixed During the First Full Month of Stay-At-Home Orders
Here are some of the leading top-line metrics that best illustrate the health of the Northern Virginia residential real estate market in April. As can be expected, Listings are Down, Pendings (Contracts) are Down, Closed Transactions are Down and Showings are Down. However, there is underlying strength supporting the housing market - 

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Categories: Buyers
April
28

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How is the Real Estate Market?
This is perhaps the most popular question asked of a real estate agent. During the past six weeks since the "Temporary Stay at Home" order has been issued by the Governor of Virginia with guidance from the federal government, it has become the most frequent question asked of me. I have been asked this question by every consumer segment in real estate - homeowners, sellers, buyers, investors, landlords and tenants.
 
I thought it would...

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Categories: Buyers
January
28

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What Does a Low Commission, Bargain-Priced Agent Look Like?
The average listing fee to sell a home in Northern Virginia is approximately 2.6% (excluding the fee to a buyer's agent). Generally, a low commission, bargain-priced agent prices their listing fee in the area of 1.5%. That's an astonishing 40% below most full-service agents. Low commission broker-agents are generally brokers or agents who center their day-to-day service model around simply being the low-cost provider without much else in terms of value offered to sellers. Low-cost providers usually come from two schools of thought. One is the belief that technology has so revolutionized the home selling process, and in so doing, it has eliminated the long-standing complex process of selling a home. This i...

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Categories: Sellers
January
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Independent Agents are Best Calibrated for Seller Success
BrightMLS statistics prove that Top Producing, Independent Agents perform at an exceedingly higher level when compared to bargain-priced agents and large agent-teams. There is a proven Seller Success Trajectory that occurs across home selling models. The selling model that produces the lowest seller value and highest risk is For Sale By Owner (FSBO) - a model where the seller uses no agent at all. This model produces a very low selling probability. Contacting a bargain-priced agent is usually the first move for a failed FSBO or a seller who is in search of the cheapest agent. The low-cost c...

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Categories: Sellers
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