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Selecting a Realtor
Thinking of buying or selling but you don't know where to start? The first thing you may ask is "How to select a Realtor?" “Selecting a Realtor is a critical decision. You need to decide what kind of information is interesting and what k...
Open House & Featured Listings
April Market Update With home buyers paying a 3%-5% Covid Premium, NOW is a great time to sell! Interest rates have fallen under 3% with 15-year mortgages at 2.5%. This has caused a surge in buyer's demand and brought back multiple con...
January 2021 Market Update
Low interest rates, low inventory, covid migration, and vaccines in a non-election year will fuel 2021. For every 1% interest rates fall, a buyer can afford 13% more home. This means a Jan 2020 buyer looking at $750,000 homes can now...
The First Ten Days
The First 10 Days: Sellers Get Maximum Value for their Homes Statistics from SmartCharts, a real estate statistics engine, show that buyers in Northern Virginia pay the maximum Price Per Sq Ft (PPSF) for homes in the first 10 days. Northern V...
Home Buyer Trends & Tips 2021
Home Buyer Trends and Tips for 2021 With “home” taking on a whole new meaning this year, we are looking to the next year with the newest in home buyer trends. In 2020 homes went from the place people returned to after work , schooling, w...
Moves of the Year: A 2020 Recap
Here are some of our team's most notable Moves of the Year: Casey updated our Pricing model to include the defining characteristics that rates, and prices, homes as dated, customary, upgraded and renovated. Colby & Morgan ...
What is Your Home Worth?
What is your home worth? Don't ask the internet! The accuracy of the online pricing engines (Realtor Property Resource, Realtor.com, Zillow, Homesnap and Redfin) are only accurate 9% of the time! The Casey Samson Team Pricing Model, th...
Two Traps Sellers Face When Pricing A Home
A Good Market Does Not Mean You Can Over Price Your Home Our team tracks homes for a living, including 39 homes that were listed with Realtors who over priced the home. What we found: 20% Success Rate 8 homes sold or ar...