• Loudoun County 2025 Holiday Celebrations

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    Now that we’ve all come back to life from our turkey comas, we’re looking forward to the holidays and all of the different events and activities across Loudoun County. From traditional parades and holiday markets to horse-drawn carriage rides and ride through light displays, there’s plenty to choose from. Town Celebrations & Parades The towns

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  • Summertime Projects and Website Updates

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    Time for a Redesign Hello, fearless readers! It’s been a little bit since we’ve dropped a post in here. And that is primarily because we’ve been busy- both with personal life things, but also because we’ve done a refresh on the ‘under the hood’ stuff on our website. The photo is of our four kiddos,

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  • The Scoop on Private Golf Clubs in Loudoun

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    You may not know this, but before joining Heather in the real estate world in 2012, I was a PGA of America member and a golf professional for more than 20 years. It’s actually what brought us to Loudoun County, when I became the head pro at the (now defunct) Westpark Golf Club. We’ve written

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  • 2024 Most Expensive Homes Sold in Loudoun

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    Yep, it’s that time for our annual wrap up of how the luxury real estate market performed in Loudoun. Over time, we’ve watched as the price point considered “luxury” has continued to rise. The first year we did this post was 2010, and it took a $2 million price tag to make the top five.

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  • 2023 Most Expensive Homes Sold in Loudoun

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    Time for us to do our annual look back on how the luxury real estate market performed in Loudoun over the course of the last year! As home prices have continued to rise, the definition of ‘luxury market’ in Loudoun has adjusted as well. Our average home price rose to $778,048 in 2023, up from

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  • Happy Birthday, LoCoMusings!

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    15 Years of LoCo Stories Fifteen years ago today, LoCoMusings.com was ‘born’ as a modest little corner of the internet to share my thoughts about life and real estate in Loudoun County. Long before agents were able to use social media to reach their clients, before Zillow’s home search and Zestimates were mainstream, I was

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  • Holiday Celebrations and Events Across Loudoun, 2022 Edition

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    Loudoun County has a ton of events and festivities lined up for the month of December, if you are looking to get out and celebrate the season locally. From parades and festivals to tree lightings and neighborhoods full of festive decorations, Loudoun always goes big for the holidays. Our favorite tradition is popping by to

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  • Looking for Coming Soon Homes?

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    Coming soon homes in Loudoun now display on our site!

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  • Most Expensive Homes Sold in Loudoun, 2020 Edition

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    We’ve been following the luxury market in Loudoun on our blog since 2010, writing yearly wrap-ups of the most expensive homes sold. (I even wrote about it for the Washington Post’s real estate column.) As the ‘richest county in the country‘ by household income, you’d think that we’d have a large volume of multi-million dollar

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Michael and Heather Elias are full time real estate professionals and licensed REALTORS at Century 21 Redwood Realty. They sincerely hope you enjoy reading this blog, and would love the opportunity to work with you.

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