If you are trying to buy a home right now, you might feel discouraged by how few options you have to consider in your price range.

But... sometimes we can expand those options more easily than you think... if you are willing to be flexible on location.

For example, if you are hoping to buy a detached home under $250K and you are only looking within the City of Harrisonburg, the options are quite limited, as only 13 detached homes under $250K have sold in the City over the past year.  But... if we expand that to include Rockingham County as well, we find 93 such home sales over the past year.

Another example... if you are looking for a detached home under $300K in the Keister Elementary School district, there have only been 10 such options in the past year.  But, if you expand to all of the City of Harrisonburg, there were 36 options.

Of course, location matters (location, location, location) to most buyers. Whether it's the school district, or your commute time to work, or the neighborhood where you want to live, we likely can't completely eliminate a location filter.

But if you are feeling discouraged by how few homes are available in your price range, sometimes the answer is simply to look a little more broadly from a location perspective.

So let's start with your budget... what you are hoping to find in a home... and your ideal location.  From there, we can explore whether expanding the geography of your search might open up a lot more options.