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By: Urban Trekker
3May2010“How is the market?” That’s usually the first intro question that anyone I’d met in my past career life as a Realtor, would ask me. Listening to what agents have told me, at the present time, there is a shortage of supply. According to the ne...
By: Urban Trekker
10Apr2010Image by Getty Images via Daylife Looking to fix up your house? Here are the 10 tax breaks for going green, via Forbes. If you fix up your house. $1,500 off your tax bill - a 30% credit for the first $5,000 you spend in 2009 or 2010 for improvements...
By: Urban Trekker
22Mar2010You know that all real estate is local. This is the local forecast for our market for 2010-2011. According to data recently released by First American Core Logic, home prices for Washington DC- Arlington- Alexandria including sale of distressed homes...
By: Urban Trekker
1Mar2010I had the opportunity to talk to Andrea McGimsey, Supervisor for Potomac District in Loudoun County about the county energy strategy to reduce its energy consumption to remain competitive economically, over the weekend at a Sierra Club workshop. Coun...
By: Urban Trekker
26Jan2010Some people mistakenly believed that assessment is the same as appraisal, including my neighbor who came by the other day. He thinks that assessment is appraisal. It is not. It's two different thing. Assessment is what the local government assess of...