Local market insight since 2007
Some (many?) would be home buyers are discovering that mortgage interest rates are making their potential monthly housing costs much higher than anticipated. Just a year…
Single family home values have not always increased in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County over the past 20 years... but they have mostly increased, and they have…
Ryan Homes is currently building a neighborhood called Cobblers Valley in Rockingham County now 33 townhomes are proposed to be built in the City, at the entrance to…
Happy Thursday afternoon, friends! As any student or teacher will tell you, summer is almost over! 😢 I hope that you and your family had a wonderful summer and that you…
I don't have any data to back this up, but it seems that a smaller percentage of showings are result in offers right now. A year ago, 20 showings might have resulted in 5…
What are you optimizing for? price? time? convenience? certainty? As a home seller, you are always optimizing for something. PRICE - Maybe you are willing to wait as long…
Mortgage interest rates have been steadily climbing for most of the past six months -- peaking at 5.81%. But... in a bit of good news for buyers in today's housing…
It's hard to get a home seller to consider a home sale contingency these days. The market is still moving quite briskly, so why would a seller tie up their home in a…
The developer of Preston Lake, Evergreen Homes, would like to build 139 townhouses behind Turner Ashby High School in the area outlined above. Bridgewater Town Council…
Cathcart Properties Inc, a developer out of Charlottesville, is proposing a rezoning of 19.3 acres between Stone Spring Road and Apple Valley Road (as shown above) to…
Over the past two years I have told countless home sellers something along the following lines as they have made final preparations to sell their home... "That recent…
In the first 25 days of July 2022, we have seen 88 signed contracts. Some context and notes... This marks a 27% decline from last July. This is the slowest rate of July…
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