Taking your house off the market for the winter? Plan ahead!
In the Harrisonburg Rockingham Association of Realtors MLS, your house must be off the market for 120 days before the "days on market" will start counting at zero again…
Auction scheduled for University Fields Apartments, a 228 unit student housing property on 23 acres in Harrisonburg, VA
In another interesting twist to our oversupplied student housing market, a 228-Unit Student Housing Property just off Port Republic Road may be auctioned off this week…
30 Year Fixed Mortgage Interest Rates Steady Around 4.5%
At least for now, 30 year fixed mortgage interest rates seem content to hover around 4.5%. After having stayed below 4% for a year and a half (Nov 23, 2011 - June 20…
Are you selling a house listed for more than $400K?
How then, does a seller of a house over $400,000 make their house stand out? How do you best position yourself to be one of the four houses to sell this month?…
Update on future park for downtown Harrisonburg
If you haven't heard about it yet, downtown Harrisonburg might feature a park in the near future. Here are several updates to bring you up to speed, and to get you…
This Thursday, Remembering Newtown and the R4 Project in Harrisonburg
What makes a space or place valuable to a community? How do we decide which spaces and places to preserve and which to destroy? And who should decide? These are just some…
Three large commercial transactions in Harrisonburg
From time to time there are some rather interesting property transfers in the City or County. Below are a few from the end of August. Explore more via…
Map of Harrisonburg, VA
Here is a helpful map of Harrisonburg produced by Harrisonburg Tourism. There are two pages / sides to this map. Download the PDF here.
What did home buyers buy in August 2013?
These are the 100 properties that went under contract in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County in August 2013.
Inventory levels down but headed up
Inventory levels (the number of homes for sale) are down 3% as compared to this time last year. That said, inventory levels generally declined between May and September…
Real Estate Roller Coaster
The graph above shows the annualized rate of home sales in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. After an enormous boom (that actually started before 2004) and then a big…
Home Sales Soar (+22%) and Prices Inch Upward (+2%) Though Mostly in Lower Price Ranges
I have just released my September 2013 monthly market report covering the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County housing market. If you remember nothing else, remember…