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NEW HOMES PROFILE – THE CARRIAGES AT SOUTH RIDING
August 22nd, 2008 categories: Chantilly Loudoun Cnty, New Construction
If you are looking at homes in South Riding, Virginia, (or the general area of this community), here is one group of new units to know about: The Carriages at South Riding. It is a small group of attached single-family homes, three or four in a cluster. Constructed by Toll Brothers, they are priced – as we speak – in the range of $495,995 to $521,995. Read the rest of this entry »
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USING THE INTERNET TO FIND A REAL ESTATE AGENT? PLEASE READ.
August 20th, 2008 categories: Buyer Strategies, Seller Strategies
Are you using the Internet to find a real estate agent in the Northern Virginia area?
If the answer is “Yes,” this post is just for you. Here are easy to apply criteria to help you make a great choice.
I won’t waste your time with a thinly disguised sales pitch. If you decide to include my team and I among those you will consider working with, fantastic. But that’s not my focus here.
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SOUTH RIDING CONCERT SERIES
August 12th, 2008 categories: Chantilly Loudoun Cnty, Community Life
If you happen to live within or close to any of the communities near the Chantilly or South Riding area, and you’d like to catch a summer concert, you can still do so. South Riding has a Summer Concert program with different artists every Friday, or at least many Friday evenings. The concerts are free, and they run through the end of September. Read the rest of this entry »
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A CENTREVILLE TOWNHOUSE – THE FIELD NARROWS SIGNIFICANTLY
August 7th, 2008 categories: Centreville Area, Featured Listings
If your home search includes a townhouse in the Centreville, Virginia area, and it is in the price range of this property, you should definitely be aware of our listing at 6285 Clay Pipe Court (Centreville, VA 20121 – MLS: FX6827720). Read the rest of this entry »
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AS A HOME SELLER IN THE CURRENT MARKET: YOU MUST WEAR TWO HATS AND A ROBE!
August 4th, 2008 categories: Seller Strategies
I’d like to offer a perspective to help sellers in the current housing market. If you are planning to sell your home, this one’s for you.
I am working “in the real estate trenches” every day, and as such I see what is working for sellers and what is not working. In “The Straight Scoop” we want to help buyers and sellers by sharing reality-based views. In that spirit, here is something we hope will help potential sellers. Read the rest of this entry »
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THE ACCIDENTAL vs. INTENTIONAL REAL ESTATE CONSUMER
August 2nd, 2008 categories: Buyer Strategies, Seller Strategies
Let’s say you are looking for a real estate agent in Chantilly, Centreville, or the Western Fairfax region…,or anywhere else for that matter. It’s a decision with significant consequences.
My objective here is to offer a perspective and provide a resource on making a good choice. What I really want to do is condense thousands of experiences with a simple but vital point that I hope will be of real value: make a careful and wise choice as to who you work with as your real estate agent. Read the rest of this entry »
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FEATURED LISTING – A QUIET STREET IN PLEASANT VALLEY
July 31st, 2008 categories: Chantilly Fairfax County, Featured Listings
If you are looking for real estate in Chantilly, Virginia, here is a community you may want to at least have on your radar screen. Pleasant Valley is very close to the intersection of Route 50 (Lee Jackson Highway) and Pleasant Valley Road. Built in the mid-eighties, the development includes over 500 single family homes.
We have listed and sold many homes in this community for nearly twenty years now. Here is one of my current homes for sale, a very nice property with Victorian flair. The attractive front porch is a special touch. It is located on one of the “back” streets in Pleasant Valley, a quiet cul-de-sac, Sovereign Place. It also has the benefit of backing to woods and a golf course.
The links below will give you more information about this property, as well as others in the same community.
As always, if you have any questions on this or other Pleasant Valley properties, just contact me. I know this wonderful community “inside out!”
Price: $380,000
Take a Visual Tour.
Featured Listings, including more details about this property.
Brief Neighborhood Visual Tour.
Full list of “For Sale” and Rentals in Pleasant Valley.
Property Search of homes in Northern Virginia.
MLS#: FX6761256
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NEW HOMES PROFILE: THE RETREAT AT SOUTH VILLAGE
July 22nd, 2008 categories: Chantilly Loudoun Cnty, New Construction
The Sheetz gas station at the intersection of Route 50 and Poland Road seems to be one of Chantilly’s favorite fill-up spots. It has good prices – as good as they can be in the current environment – and it sits near many of the communities that are part of the ever-expanding complex of Western-Fairfax-and-on-into-Loudoun home developments. Read the rest of this entry »
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WHEN SELLING YOUR HOUSE, THE “GRASS SHOULD NOT BE GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE”
July 15th, 2008 categories: Seller Strategies
In The Straight Scoop we routinely offer “Buyer Strategies” and “Seller Strategies.” They include ideas and approaches from myself or one of our contributors, designed to help you if you plan to buy a home or, if you are thinking about selling your home (or investment property) in the Chantilly, Centreville, or Western Fairfax area.
In this post I want to share a simple idea, a reminder really, of something you already know. However, you can “know” something and then again you can really “know” it. One of the things about the “obvious” is that what is clearly obvious to one person may not even be on the mind of someone else. This is certainly true in real estate. Working with buyers and sellers virtually every day, some things are obvious to me, but are not apparent to others not immersed in this world. And I respect that completely. The world always looks different, depending on one’s vantage point. Read the rest of this entry »
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REALLY SMART REAL ESTATE DECISIONS
July 10th, 2008 categories: Buyer Strategies, Seller Strategies
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
If you happen to be a prospective home buyers in the Northern Virginia area, you no doubt have your own set of guidelines and concerns that are or will be part of your decision process. May I offer these brief observations that I hope will add a little something to your perspective, especially if this is on your agenda now or anytime soon. Read the rest of this entry »
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