Tell me about the Real Estate Market

The most common question any Realtor is going to get asked is, "How is the real estate market?" This is a tough question to answer and some Realtors will take the easy way out and tell people it is interesting or that they would be surprised. The real answer should always be the truth, but it is not an easy truth to get to.

There is no overall market for real estate. The market is going to vary drastically from state to state, county to county, and even subdivision to subdivision. Look at the difference in the market for single family homes in Foxfield and Greenbriar. These two subdivisions are basically right across route 50 from each other and both in the 22033 zip code.

At Least I got My Car Washed

Last night are 8:30 PM I got a call from the Weichert Lead Network telling me I was about to get a call from a lead. I was convinced I had my phone on vacation and wouldn't be available to take the Weichert Lead Network calls but I guess somewhere along the line of deciding to put my phone on vacation and putting it on vacation I forgot.

When I got the person on the line I scrambled to pull up the listing they had looked at that had caused them to call in in the first place. In talking with them this felt like a good one. Much better than the other lead network calls I had gotten where the person is either under a fake name or it is a message for me to call them and they never answer the phone.

Northern Virginia Amenities: Wegmans

My personal home is surrounded by grocery stores. Within a small radius there is a Giant, Safeway, Whole Foods, Harris Teeter, and best of all a Wegmans. Wegmans is a combination of all the previously listed grocery stores where it carrier a wide variety of the standard grocery's and then has a large section for take out dining, organic products, and international products. It is hard to find a much better shopping experience than the one at Wegmans.

When Wegmans first moved into Norther Virginia people weren't sure what to make of it. It had the appearance of your standard issue gourmet grocery store that would cost too much and end up being a place only people concerned about the Jones' would shop. The standard issue groceries at Wegmans are priced at a competitive rate with the other stores in the area and there is a larger selection of nearly everything.

Lessons from the Other Life

I live so many lives at times it becomes unclear whether I am even a real person anymore. My main focus in my private non-work life is the pursuit of baseball. This hobby has taken me to many interesting and wonderful places, but the greatest journeys it is taken me on are the ones within my own mind.

Yesterday while driving to a friend's house to record an episode of our Nats based podcast I got a call off of some handouts I had given out earlier in the day. It is the same type of info that I put out on here with market analysis and a few interesting items about the area. I had them out in a few neighborhoods and haven't really gotten any feedback positive or negative about them.

Ghost Stories of Northern Virginia: Bunny Man Bridge

I still remember the first time I ever heard this story. It was on the day in drivers' ed. when we had to learn to drive on country roads. Northern Virginia is an interesting area, because there are urban, suburban, and rural settings so close together, and it was important to learn how to drive on all types of roads. While driving down Colchester Road in Clifton the instruct told us to stop just before an old dilapidated bridge.

When we asked why we had stopped he told us he had a story we had to hear. As legend would have it a nearby asylum was closed and while the inmates were being transferred their bus crashed. Of the escaped patients only one was never found. Or was never found until skinned rabbit carcasses started to be found hanging from trees in the woods of Clifton.

Northern Virginia Market Update

Another 20th of the month has come and gone and that means it is time for the RBI market update for the previous month. Watch this video and enjoy its useful information and then call me with any questions or for further information.





I learn something new in real estate everyday
so you don't have to
David Huzzard
www.SuperNoVaRealty.com

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