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The New Year in Richmond Real Estate

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Real Estate Agent with Virginia Properties, A Long & Foster Co.

 I have made it through the first week of the New Year. After last year it feels like some congratulations are in order? Well, not really, I suppose, because there is a lot of ground to cover in order to determine if the real estate business-plan we have developed for 2010 will be successful. In fact another fifty-one weeks to be exact. However, after the past year I am eternally optimistic about the up-swing in housing. In spite of all the predictions, prognostications, advice and guess-work out there in the market-place, I feel that good things are on the horizon in our business.

 I hear reports about good and bad markets, the pick up in sales and the total decline of our society as we know it. I wonder if there is enough confidence out there for people to start purchasing homes again. I don't think I'm smart enough to figure out what it will take to make this happen, but I can tell you that I'm beginning to see movement in and around the Richmond region. It has started with an increase in activity, the notion that people are out there looking at homes again. What has really changed is that product has started to move again. Home sales above the first-time home buyer level are being sold. It's happening now, and the proof is in our most recent office stats.

 So I've decided to look at the New Year like a new semester at school; I will keep past failures in the past, highlight our successes, focus on and learn from all of it, and begin a-new! I've been told "good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment".  Perhaps it's better to keep looking forward than it is to be worried about water under the dam. Good things are on the horizon in our business - just keep working for it, and I'll plan to see you here in 51 weeks!

 John VanderSyde is an Associate Broker with Virginia Properties, A Long & Foster Company, and is also a Licensed Architect. You can learn more about John and Ann by visiting www.InSydeHomes.com or by calling (804) 282-7300

 

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