The USDA offers a no-down-payment loan for rural homes, but 17 areas of Virginia are set to be removed from the list of eligible locations unless Congress acts. The USDA Rural Development Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program — … [Read more...]
Support Trudy Harsh of Fairfax in NAR’s Good Neighbor competition
Realtor® Trudy Harsh of Fairfax is one of the 10 finalists for NAR’s 2012 Good Neighbor awards — help her be one of the five winners. We told you about Trudy a few months ago — after her daughter developed (and later died from) … [Read more...]
Cindy Stackhouse wins Virginia REALTOR® of the Year Award
Prince William REALTOR Cindy Stackhouse has been named the Virginia 2012 REALTOR of the Year. Announced at VAR’s Real Show on Saturday, October 6 in Virginia Beach, and presented by 2012 VAR President Trish Szego, who said, The REALTOR of the … [Read more...]
Who owns second homes?
The Pew Research Center has a nifty chart about what kinds of people own a second property (i.e., have “any real estate holdings, such as a second home or investment property, apart from the place where they now live”). Some of the … [Read more...]
Virginia Association of Realtors® endorses George Allen for U.S. Senate
Today George Allen received the endorsement of the Virginia Association of Realtors®®. At an endorsement event held at VAR’s Glen Allen headquarters, Allen participated in a roundtable discussion with Realtor® members to hear firsthand … [Read more...]
CNN doesn’t seem to understand the concept of “bubble”
“Home prices may not return to peak until 2023,” is the CNN Money headline. The story is that housing prices may take that long to hit their 2007 levels — that is, the levels they were at the peak of the housing bubble. This is … [Read more...]
