ORIGINALLY POSTED AT: https://www.comehomevirginia.com/summer-heat-but-existing-home-sales-cool-an-opportunity Summertime temperatures have been very hot this year, but for 3+ months existing home sales have cooled, why? First a local view of Northern Virginia most likely causes for slowing home sales. While locally in many neighborhoods in the region the number of homes for sale has increased during this year the quality of these homes and often the quality of the marketing of them has declined. On the part of lower quality of properties this could be caused by home owners believing that the shortage of available homes means that they can take short cuts in Preparing their Home for (4 comments)