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Congratulations to the following real estate blogs/bloggers for being finalists in the Inman Innovator Most Innovative Blog category (award to be presented August 1 at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco):Transparent Real EstateReal Estate Tomato3 Oceans Real EstateReal Estate, Real Competition ...

Alan Hummel, spokesperson for the Appraisal Institute, in prepared testimony Tuesday before a Senate subcommittee on mortgage industry abuses blamed poor regulation of mortgage brokers and lenders, and weak or nonexistent enforcement of real estate practitioners for the practice of "hitting the ...

Inman announced the seven real estate brokerage companies that will compete for the Inman Innovator award this year in the Most Innovative Brokerage or Franchise category. This award, along with all other category awards will be given to the finalist on August 1, 2007 at Real Estate Connect in Sa...

As some of you may or may not know, the Virginia General Assembly is increasing the Grantor's Tax as part of the Northern Virginia Transportation Plan passed last March. Currently, the Grantor's Tax is $1 per $1000 of the sales price or assessed value, whichever is greater. The Virginia General A...

1.  Sellers Can't Go Any LowerIn today's market place, many of the sellers are at or below the price they purchased their homes for.  This has created a situation where many sellers are unable to negotiate much further on the sales price of their home.  In other situations, equity has been draine...

As we all know by now, open houses are becoming less and less effective for the marketing and sale of real estate. Open houses still exist thanks in part to misinformed sellers and real estate agents who can't say no nor tell the client the truth (that they don't work like they used to). But wha...

If you have questions about Loudoun County, Virginia, whether real estate related or not, feel free to check out the following resources or contact me directly:www.LoudounStats.com - Personal site/blog dedicated to Loudoun County real estate market stats, data, information and resources for buyer...

For those of you living in Loudoun County and selling or buying within, you probably already know what Loudoun County has to offer. But if you're relocating to the area, you may not. And being that the numbers, stats and data that Loudoun Stats routinely covers are not the only deciding factor wh...

The only national statistic that has any impact on the local Loudoun County real estate market is interest rates.  The national statistics that are quoted in articles are, for all intents and purposes, meaningless to our local marketplace.  But interest rates and their movements have a direct imp...

After their opening show in Vancouver, Police drummer Stewart Copeland ripped his band's performance in a posting on his web site. He was very frank, to say the least, calling the performance "unbelieveably lame". Stewart also said that Sting made the band look "like a petulant pansy instead of t...