As we often say, in addition to the Carolyn Homes Team’s local expertise and unparalleled marketing and negotiation skills, a critical part of maximizing our sellers’ net proceeds in a sale is to prep, stage, and price our listings properly. Teaming up with the best professionals in the area for all of our clients’ home … Read More
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Hello, Spring (Market!)
The Spring Real Estate Market is heating up in the D.C. Metro Area, but we NEED YOUR INVENTORY!
Prep for Spring with the 2023 Paint Color Forecast! 🎨
With spring on the horizon, many of us are contemplating ways to refresh our homes, or perhaps even prepare for them to hit the Spring Market*. While the Carolyn Homes Team is always happy to walk you through our suggestions for improvements to create the most significant value in your home, we can unequivocally tell … Read More
“Bright” News on the D.C. Market This Week!
We are excited to share highlights from this week’s Bright MLS weekly update, which contains promising information for both buyers and sellers in the D.C. area market! These reports help us to keep track of the market in real-time. You can read the full report here, and it is summarized below: “Here are the highlights … Read More
National Association of Realtors: 2023 Market Predictions
Coming off a volatile 2022, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) had its annual conference last month and released its outlook for the 2023 real estate market. Here are the key predictions and what we’re looking forward to in 2023: Home sales will fall by roughly 6.8% compared to 2022, attributed to owners unwilling to … Read More
Happy Holidays from the Carolyn Homes Team!
We wish you the happiest of holidays and a wonderful start to 2023! We look forward to helping you with all of your real estate needs in the New Year! Warmly, Carolyn, Isabella, Laura, Jackie, and Amanda View our current listings here!
Winter Home Prep – Top Tips from our Friends at Douglas Construction Group
As temperatures start to fall and the first official day of winter approaches, it’s time to start thinking about how to prepare your home for the season! For snow lovers, exciting news from FOX5, who predicts a warmer yet snowier winter for the D.C. area, estimating between 9 and 18 inches of snow this winter. … Read More
Fall 2022 Update: A Shifting Market in D.C.
We referred to it in a recent post, but what does a “shifting market” actually mean? Here’s what you need to know about what the D.C. area real estate market looks like this Fall. While inventory remains at an all-time low (in Montgomery County just 1,295 homes were listed in September 2022, compared to an … Read More
What makes a “hot listing” HOT??
Everywhere we turn people are asking, “What’s happening in the D.C. market? Is it cooling off? Is now a good time to sell? Buy?” Of course the answers to those questions are nuanced and depend on each individual clients’ real estate needs and wants and we’d love to answer them for you one-on-one! Even if … Read More
DC Real Estate Market: 2020 Recap
Listing service Bright MLS reports today that the median price of a home sold in the D.C. metropolitan region hit a record of $500,000 in 2020, 8.7% higher than the 2019 median. Low interest rates and inventory levels have combined to push the median sales price up, despite disruptions in the spring market due to … Read More