I listed and sold a Centreville townhouse for a client that was moving out of the state in the summer of 2008. In the fall of 2009, plans for this client had changed, and he was moving back to Northern Virginia and wanted to buy something in the same Centreville, VA area. He preferred a townhouse with little to no yard maintenance.
We went out looking in mid October and found very few homes that "fit." There was one resale in Faircrest that came close, but it wasn't long before we realized that the sellers were upside down in that particular townhome and the list price was too high. Since those sellers refused to do a short sale, and it had taken my Buyer twenty to thirty homes to find that one possibility, we moved on to new construction.
Enter Centreville Crossing, located near the intersection of Route 66 and Route 29 in Centreville. This condominium complex of stacked, garage townhouses was underway with Ryland Homes. I put my Buyer in the car in early November and off we went. Before we even arrived, I knew he would love the Yorktown model. I knew all the models from the Ryland community of Market Center in Haymarket. Same stacked, garage townhouses, different location.
Not surprisingly, my Buyer fell in love with the Yorktown model and entered into a contract to purchase new construction. He ended up settling on a loaded Yorktown model with gourmet kitchen, hardwood floors and lots of smaller fixture upgrades for under his desired price of $400,000 and had all of his closing costs paid by the builder. And all with less than a six month turnaround.
Touched base with my Buyer today, the day after settlement and he is most definitely pleased with his home purchase. This Yorktown model at Centreville Crossing fits him like a glove.
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