Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Shopping Below Your Highest Price In the Bristow/Gainesville real estate market, listings are selling fast and way above list price. Seven to ten percent above list price..sometimes more. If you are out looking for a home, you are going to be most competitive shopping below the highest you can go. What do I mean by Read More …
Buyers in Need of Closing Cost Help Are Getting Shoved Out of the Market Last year (2020) Bristow and Gainesville buyers in were still able to be successful among their competition of multiple offers with closing cost contribution requests from the seller. This was true in all price ranges, as multiple offer situations consisted of Read More …
Being Licensed in Virginia is Enough For Me Pictured above is the Flat Stanley project my young cousin mailed to me from Pottsville, PA over a decade ago. It has very little to do with being a licensed Virginia real estate agent, but doesn’t that custom Virginia touristy t-shirt look great? That’s me going the Read More …
A Lottery Ticket in a Seller’s Market In the rough and tumble world that buyers and buyer agents are experiencing in the Bristow/Gainesville real estate market from 2020 to now, opportunities to enter into a ratified back up contract on properties is one being missed by many. The general objection, when offered to enter into Read More …
How Long Does it Take to Tour a Home? If you are a first time home buyer, you may wonder how much time it takes to tour a home. Really, it depends on two things: Your level of interest in the home The size of the property If you don’t like a home in the Read More …
Are Buyers Over Paying for Houses Right Now? In the Bristow/Gainesville first quarter real estate market of 2021, we’re picking up where 2020 left off. Sellers are in the driver’s seat due to extremely low inventory and intense buyer demand. In fact, it’s crazier right now than it was in 2020. A townhouse or single Read More …
The Trend to Under Price in a Seller’s Market Last week my buyers saw a listing come up that was near the top of their price range. One look at it and I knew it was likely under priced by twenty-thousand dollars. Calling the listing agent, she said she had advised her sellers to price Read More …
Home Sellers #1 Complaint About Their Listing Agents I was still a new agent when the Bristow/Gainesville/Haymarket real estate market started it’s downturn in the first decade of 2000. While it seems foreign now, homes were sitting on the market for months at a time. And it was not uncommon for a seller to go Read More …
How Many Houses Does a Buyer Have to See? What does a Top Bristow/Gainesville Real Estate Agent do in her spare time? Read and research about real estate, of course! You don’t get to be a top agent in the area without loving what you do. Some of the places where I can be found Read More …
Reaching Out on a Snow Day to Past Clients Today I used my snow day to reach out to my clients from 2020. Normally, I send out their settlement statements from their sales or purchases to them via regular mail in January. That way, they are right there, arriving with other tax preparation documents. However, Read More …