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LoCo Photo: Take a Back Road
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Off of Harmony Church Road, in Hamilton…
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Hello LoCo… the “Goodbye Tax” is Back (Updated)
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Last Saturday, the Virginia General Assembly passed a new transportation bill (HB 2313) to help fund the states road systems. Part of the package is a 250% increase in the Grantor’s tax, the tax all Virginians pay when they sell a home or business property. About 4 years ago Heather wrote about the reduction of the Grantor’s…
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Lowry’s Crab Shack
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When you grow up on the eastern shore of Maryland, fresh seafood is just a part of life. Heather’s grandfather owned a few crab pots, and she will be the first to tell you they taste much better when cooked 20 minutes after they come out of the water. So trying to find a place…
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2012 LoCo Market Recap
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2012 saw an improvement in every measurable area for home sales in Loudoun County. Let’s take a look at the key statistics and see what they tell us. Median sales price for single family homes was up to $533,641, the highest value since 2007 checked in at $644,924. This represents a 2% increase over 2011’s median sales price of…
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LoCo Luxury Homes…Still Selling
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Back in January, I wrote a post about the luxury market in Loudoun, the $1 million-plus homes, that also ran in the Washington Post’s real estate blog. At the time, I pointed out that the luxury market seemed to be rebounding, with the overall number of million dollar homes sold rising from 50 homes…
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What I Love About Western LoCo
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Because this little corner of the web has much to offer in the way of Loudoun photographs and thoughts on living here, I often hear from folks who are considering a move. Last week, I spoke with a couple that are thinking about Purcellville and western Loudoun for their next abode; they would be moving…
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Be Still My Heart…
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Victorian architecture makes my heart sing. I have a new construction house that was built to look like a Queen Anne Victorian, wrap porch and all. That clipping pictured above, from the newspaper in my hometown, depicts the dream home I’d love to build…someday. There’s just something magical about those wraparound porches, the upstairs turret…
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Here Come the Listings?
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If you’ve been reading the posts here for the last couple of months, you’ve heard me repeat over and over that we do not have a lot of available homes for sale on the market here in Loudoun. Given that we are now in the first week of March, we should be hearing the stampede…
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Is Your Tax Assessment Correct?
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Are you thinking about selling this spring? Or do you just want to make sure that your new property tax assessment matches up with market value? This should help: here’s the data for single family homes in Loudoun. If you want information targeted directly to your home and neighborhood, click here to schedule a consultation…
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