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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Four Pillars of Real Estate Success

Selling a Home in 2023 Although inventory is low, and buyers and sellers trade off in control in 2023, 45% of the homes on the market withdraw or expired unsold. It is more important than ever to focus on the 4 Pillars of ...

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The Power of Social Media

The Chili Dog Challenge Demonstrates The Power of Social Media and online marketing! We bet 250 Vienna Inn’s famous Chili dogs we could sell this $1.6M home in less than 10 days, we SOLD this home in 9 days! The challenge was made under di...

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Next Generation of Selecting a Realtor

Buying and selling real estate is considered essential!   Coronavirus Paves the Way for a New Era in Selecting a Realtor to Sell Your Home. The coronavirus may have a silver lining in the real estate world forcing Realtors to go online ...

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School Spotlight: Marshall High School

George C. Marshall High School Northern Virginia’s Diamond in the Rough Myth: Marshall has sub par academics based on Greatschools.org sub par score. Facts: Unlike college administrators, Greatschools.org does not give credit for t...

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