By Maija Dykstra, Full Time Sales Agent When is the best time to sell? Right now! Interest rates are low! Buyers are buying! (We just had our best December ever with 60 homes settled!) Many people that had their homes listed in the summer and fall and didn’t sell, got frustrated, and took their home [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Washington, D.C. Tops List for Real Estate Buys
Source: Forbes, Matt Woolsey (01/21/2009) The nation’s capital leapfrogged London this year as the world’s best city for real estate investment. With the federal government on a path to grow bigger and increase spending, the new programs will need offices and its employees will need homes. Forbes magazine turned to the Association of Foreign Investors [...]
January 26, 2009
News from the Greater Washington Economic Conference
By Wes Foster, CEO Long & Foster Companies Dr. Steve Fuller, Economist at George Mason University says “The payroll job loss as likely to go deeper and longer – perhaps 18-20 months. There are currently 13 million unemployed, and many of these people will stay unemployed because the new jobs will have different qualifications than [...]
January 19, 2009
The Forecast for 2009: Confidence Returns
CNN predicts that 2009 will be “The Year of the Thaw” anticipating a slow but steady recovery. According to Forbes.com there will be a “Real Estate Resurrection” in 2009. Unlike the stock market, the real estate market is really thousands of mini-markets spread out across the country. While making long-term predictions about prices and sales [...]
January 18, 2009
Welcome to 2009!
For most of us, the New Year is a time to reevaluate priorities, set goals, and think about what we’d like to accomplish in the year ahead. We make to-do lists and post them on our fridge, or now-a-days, on our blogs. It’s not surprising then, that many homeowners start making their plans to buy [...]
January 16, 2009
PURPLE PRIDE!
Perhaps the one event that will bind all of Maryland together this weekend is the AFC championship between huge NFL rivals. The Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburg Steelers are set to battle one another in a game that is bound to be the most physical challenge of the season. The Ravens made their way into [...]
