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Local real estate agent Peggy James of the Twins Selling Real Estate Team shares tips about the the local Woodbridge Virginia real estate market conditions and surrounding area's. Learn how to sell your home fast, how to buy your move-up home or downsize. Learn what's happening with new homes, short sale and foreclosure home inventory. Feel free to ask questions or comment.

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2012 

Today is  "Happy Day" for the home buyers who are purchasing 4320 Chelson Lane in Woodbridge Virginia.  They get the keys to the home and begin a brand new chapter in one of the most sought after homes in the community. It was earlier this year I listed the home on Cheslon. It sat with no offers....
08/31/2012
I just read the blog post below and thought I should pass it along to you. Markita Aldridge Woods of WestStar Mortgage here in Lake Ridge Virginia, brings up some very good points.  Renting is good.....I know this is not a common statement  from a Woodbridge Mortgage Lender.   But it is true, ren...
08/29/2012
You don't have a lot of money, but you have time? Well if your in the  Woodbridge Virginia area and you care about your local community, and you have $20.00 to spare.                                           Then you have the power to do something pretty darn special! Watch this video....    Thi...
08/21/2012
As a full time REALTOR® I do my best do get out and see what all the builders have for sale. This week I visited Ryan Homes at Brookside in Warrenton. The Lakes at  Brookside subdivision is not anywhere Lake Ridge Virginia, it is west of us up past Gainesville and the Lake Manassas Virginia area....
08/16/2012
Seems as though one builder is starting to hear the cries from the consumer. "We may be aging, but we're not ready to commit to a 55+ Community. That said many of the consumers I have spoken to who are thinking about downsizing want a newer home, little maintance and they'd like a basement for en...
08/16/2012
You know you're ready to move. You are busting at the seams in your current home.  You have been pre-approved to buy a home and the great news is you do not have to sell your home first. Congratulations you are what we call the Move-up Buyer. You are excited about the possibilities. The only chal...
08/14/2012
Update...this home went Under Contract in less than 10 days! We have more...call 703-851-3085 Single Family Home With Garage Under $250,000 This three bedroom, two and half bath home listed for sale. It has a huge fenced back yard with a tall privacy fence and backyard shed and covered deck. The ...
08/14/2012
It was last year, a home owner died. We were less than thirty days from settlement. As tragic as that was, things got worse when the surviving military spouse learned that her income would be cut in half and that she could no longer use her husbands VA Loan. The reason his illness had not yet bee...
08/06/2012
I thought I would share this great information with all of you who may own a home and you have an FHA Loan on it. Joe Petrowsky of Manchester, Ct worte the blog post below about how many homeowners across America have submitted for an FHA Streamline Refinance. As you will see in his post, he note...
08/06/2012
Who Says The Real Estate Market is Slow In Summer? Not here in the Lake Ridge Virginia area! Below is a visual market update for those of you who follow my blog. For the last two months in the middle of the month I have been giving you and update on the real estate market conditions in Lake Ridge...
08/05/2012
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