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The Future Of The Rental Market
The new year ignites a spirit of change across the board, and the real estate industry is no exception. As we head deeper into another decade, there seems to be an abundance of advice for buyers and sellers, but what can investors, landlords an...
What Changes To FICO Mean For The Middle-Class Home Buyer
The world continues to get more complicated for millions of Americans trying to make a better life for themselves. The Fair Isaac Corporation — known to most consumers as the company responsible for their FICO score, which influences everythi...
Forget Staying Put: Nearly Half Of Homeowners Plan To Move This Decade
The Institute’s Luxury Market Report is your guide to an analysis on the trends and comparative data on the top-residential markets throughout Canada and the United States. This month’s reports looks at why its important to understand em...
Real Estate Assessments Make Biggest Jump in 5 Years
The City of Falls Church released its overview of real estate assessments as of Jan. 1, 2020 Tuesday, and for the 10th straight year, the overall value is well above three percent, this time at a solid 3.89 percent, the biggest jump in five yea...
Year starts off with increasing home-sale prices across N.Va.
Fewer home sales but higher prices stood as the story for January’s real-estate market across Northern Virginia. A total of 1,065 properties went to closing during the first month of the year, a figure down about 5.6 percent from January 2...
Condo market across region outperforms national average in fourth quarter
Condominiums that sold across the Washington region in the fourth quarter of 2019 garnered 7 percent more than those changing hands in 2018, an appreciation rate higher than nationally, according to new data. The median sales price for a con...
Average Arlington single-family home price now $2 million? Well . . .
The opening month of the year will require something of an asterisk when it comes to Arlington’s real-estate sales. And maybe a defibrillator, too. Yes, the average sales price of $968,949 for all types of properties was up a heart-stop...
D.C. region sees 4.5% bump up in real-estate prices
The median sales price of single-family homes sold across the Washington area in the fourth quarter of 2019 posted a 4.5-percent increase from the same period a year before, below the national average but still placing the region 12th nationall...
