According to the Winchester Star,  new construction has slowed in Winchester and Frederick County to such a snails pace that developers are sitting on numerous vacant lots on subdivisions across the county. Ryland Homes just pulled out of a community in Strasburg, Taylor Ridge, leaving it half built, and leaving the developer saddled with the [...]

I was reading Time magazine this weekend and stumbled across an article on ‘communal homeowners’, which they dubbed ‘Co-ho’s’.  Basically, a communal homeowner, co-ho, is someone who buys a home with friends.  The story profiled several different pairs of homeowners who bought with friends; all were in their 20s and were looking to maximize the size [...]

As I’m sure any of the authors of this blog could attest, more consumers are ‘interviewing’ Realtors by reading their blog posts before they ever pick up the phone to make contact.  The Washington Post published an article yesterday in their Real Estate section titled “Making Connections: Web 2.0 Creates New Ways for Agents, Home [...]

I’m still recovering from four days attending Inman Connect in San Francisco, including RE BarCamp the day before. Not only did I have the opportunity to listen to talented speakers and engaging panel discussions, I also got to meet so many people in person that prior to this week I knew from their writing or [...]

It just happened again. I’m sitting on an open house, and a couple walks in; immediately I can sense that their desire to see the house has overridden their non-desire to speak with a REALTOR® inside the house. They clearly don’t want to talk to me, don’t want to sign in, are looking around, not [...]