Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Less Than One Week Until Christmas With one of the largest holidays of the year happening in less than one week, is anything happening in the world of Bristow/Gainesville real estate? You bet. Buyers are still looking for homes. And those sellers undeterred by listing during the holiday season are reaping the rewards of being Read More …
Pros & Cons of Disclosing the Existence of Other Offers on Your Home When sitting down with sellers and filling out our listing agreement, sellers sometimes get caught off guard by the question of whether or not they wish for me to disclose the existence of other offers on their home to inquiring buyer agents. Read More …
Fairfax City Duplex Just Sold Above List Price On Halloween I was pleased to bring 10646 Maple Street to the market as an active listing. It had been listed as coming soon on October 28th and to my surprise, not one single inquiry was made about the property in those three days. So when it Read More …
How Many Offers Does it Take to Make a Seller Happy? Listing your home in a market like the Bristow/Gainesville area have been experiencing in 2020, means there will likely be multiple buyers that want a chance to make an offer on your home. There is simply not enough homes for sale to meet buyer Read More …
The Impression Your Home Makes When Listed Walking into a beautifully staged home, where it is obvious that a professional stager with a large inventory of items at their disposal has prepped the home is a lovely sight. However, not all staging is about modern furnishings. Particularly when you are staging a home in the Read More …
Are Buyers Still Out Looking for Homes? This afternoon I met with nervous, soon-to-be home sellers. They were curious if the latest orders surrounding the pandemic precautions by Governor Northam in Virginia had slowed down buyers from house hunting. I’m sure they are not the only future home sellers wondering this. For starters, the initial Read More …
Should a Seller Ever Consider a Pre-Settlement Occupancy Agreement? Ask any well trained, professional listing agent with experience under their belt what they think of a pre-settlement occupancy agreement and I would bet that nearly all of them would be adamantly against pre-settlement occupancy. Let’s pause here for a moment and I’ll explain what pre-settlement Read More …
Communication is the Key to a Smooth Deal If there is one common denominator to a deal where parties lose trust in one another, is it lack of communication. In real estate deals, communication is the key to success. There can be bumps in the road, but waiting until the eleventh hour to disclose the Read More …
Fun with Staging Whenever I meet with Bristow and Gainesville home sellers about listing their home, staging is a subject that inevitably comes up. Staging isn’t about emptying the entire contents of your home and putting in rental furniture, though some sellers seem to think that is what staging entails. Staging starts with editing the Read More …
Temporary Housing For sellers in a seller’s market, the only downside to selling is knowing where they will live next. For sellers that have sold and then bought in the same market, whether a move up or downsize, they are likely facing the same conditions that made selling so attractive: That’s a hard market for Read More …