Active and Pending Listings Have a Role in Pricing Your Home Too
When we're pricing your home, we'll spend most of our time looking at sold data. The prices other buyers paid for similar homes gives us the best indication of what a…
How Optimistic Will You Be When Pricing Your Home?
When we talk about pricing your home, one of the first things we'll eventually have to decide is how optimistic you want to be. Here's what I mean... I'll put together a…
If You Are Not Making Repairs Before You Sell You Need to Price Your Home Accordingly
Let's say your house needs some work. Maybe the HVAC is well beyond is life expectancy and is starting to have difficulty keeping the house cool, or warm. Maybe the deck…
Are There More Exciting Homes for Less Money Than Yours
When you're thinking about how we might price your home, here's a question we might want to consider... Are there more exciting homes on the market at a lower price than…
Rising Rates and Escalating Prices Are Making It Harder to Buy a Home
If you've been trying to buy a home in the Harrisonburg area lately, you may have noticed something frustrating... it keeps getting harder. And for many buyers, it's two…
The House Might Be Perfect. But What About the Lot?
You're looking for a four bedroom home with at least 3000 square feet, in a great neighborhood. And there's that one house on the market that checks all of those boxes…
A Busier Start to 2026 in Harrisonburg Real Estate With More Sales and Steady Prices
Happy Friday, Friends! What a whirlwind of a Spring this has been! The local real estate market is moving pretty quickly in most price ranges right now, with new listings…
It Is Okay to Be Goldilocks When Buying a Home
It's OK to be Goldilocks Too big. Too small. Too open. Too chopped up. Too new. Too old. If you've been searching for a home for a little while, you might start to feel…
Forbes Names Harrisonburg One of the 25 Best Places to Retire in the US
Forbes just released its list of the 25 best places to retire in the U.S. for 2026... and Harrisonburg made the cut. Forbes compared nearly 1,000 places across the…
JMU Approves Campus Master Plan and New Strategic Vision
If you want to understand the Harrisonburg housing market, you have to understand JMU. The two are highly interrelated. And last month, JMU's Board of Visitors made some…
No Offers for Weeks and Then Suddenly Three at Once
You've been watching this house for three weeks. Plenty of showings, apparently. But no offers. So you finally decide to go for it -- you make an offer -- and then, what…
Would You Pay More Than the Appraised Value for This House?
It's a competitive market right now in some price ranges and areas -- particularly in and just around the City of Harrisonburg, for under $500K. If you've made a few…