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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...
Why Staging Your Home Pays
Why Staging Your Home Pays. Most homes have a traditional style. Today’s buyers are looking for transitional homes. Over 83% of buyers find it easier to "visualize the property as their future home" when it's staged in transitional sty...
A Local Chef’s Dream Kitchen
We asked a Vienna local and owner/chef at Bazin's on Church, Patrick Bazin, what he would have in his "Dream Kitchen" "Being a Chef and owning a restaurant and catering business for 15 years I have worked in many home kitchens in the Vienna ...