The Fall Market and the Nalls Real Estate Team

I love the Fall. We always get a small upswing in the market of serious buyers and really good listings and all the Realtors are back at work full time, nice and rested from summer vacation. Kids are settled into the school year and the Holidays are coming. Good, good, good.

Interest rates, which dropped below 5% for thirty year fixed this month (!), are driving a fairly strong market. That, and the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit I talked about last month seem to be working their magic. According to the National Association of Realtors, pending home sales have increased for seven straight months, the longest period since this index began in 2001. Interesting.

This Fall the office is running particularly smoothly too because we have a great new assistant working with us, Harrison Beacher. Harrison is taking care of our administration and some of our marketing. He's the guy that makes sure your open house ads are correctly placed and tracks our sales to settlement. Huge job but not so big that he hasn't had time to sell. TWO transactions of his own already and assisted on two more. He's really on the way to an outstanding real estate career. He's the handsome dude on the right in the new team picture.

Harrison is also helping bring us into the 21st Century with a minimum of trauma. He is twittering and blogging away on our website and on Facebook, keeping all of our listings fresh and in the public eye as well as digging out some fascinating real estate articles and information to keep us all abreast of breaking news, statistics, trends and the ever changing government programs that effect our industry. Maybe it's that 2008 diploma from Tom's alma mater,  Georgetown University that makes him so good ;-) In any event, we welcome you to check out our website blog,  friend us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to see what we're talking about.

All the best -
 
Barbara and Tom

Long and Foster Real Estate, Inc