Chip Warner's Real Estate Bolg

Been wanting to find a home in northern Virginia near a metro stop?  Well it just got a lot easier.  All homes, single family, town homes and condos within 1 mile of any metro stop can now be easily located.  Just go to http://www.fairfaxhomestore.com/Homes_Near_Metro/page_2380355.html to see them all. We are always ready ...

The expiration date of the $8,000 first-time home buyer has passed.  However, congress recently extended this credit to qualified members of our uniformed military services.  They have an extra year to cash in on the credit with a new deadline of April 30, 2011. The government defines "qualified service member" as a member of ...

It used to be that military families that moved to an area and then faced a housing loss due to a BRAC (base realignment and closure) could get some financial help to sell their home without incurring a loss.  Now this program has been changed to include families that have PCS orders to a new duty station that is at least 50 miles away from ...

The Warner Group of RE/MAX Allegiance is very pleased to offer their buyer clients with ListingBook & VoicePad access to MLS listings.  ListingBook is a powerful tool that not only enables buyers to conduct their own real time searches, but comes packed with local area & demographic information as well.  VoicePad is a great tool ...

I have been checking into the financial assistance programs that are out there for military families who find themselves having to move and are "caught" in a down market.  The US Department of Defense Housing Assistance Program may be an option.  This program used to be only available to service men and women who were ...

Congress is in session and it is looking like they are going to extend the stimulus package that is before them.  If it passes as expected, it will expand the $8,000 tax credit to April of 2010 for all first time home buyers.  The new twist on the program, is that up to $6,500 will be available to anyone who buys a home.  (there are ...

If you have not owned a home in the past two years, you qualify for the Federal Government's $8000 tax credit if you purchase and settle before 30 November 2009.  Time is running out but it is not too late.  There is talk that they may extend the program, but it is unknown at this point whether or not they will.  I have a ...

Bills to extend the maximum $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, which expires Nov. 30, are pending in both the U.S. House and the Senate. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, is co-sponsor of a bill with Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson that ...

Housing Prices Rise.  Average U.S. home prices have started to rise, according to a monthly report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. FHFA says U.S. home prices rose 0.9 percent from April to May. The biggest gains were in the battered Pacific region, where average prices were up 2.7 percent from the previous ...

Homes are getting contracts in days, not many weeks or months like you may think.  The market has been heating up and homes that are in nice repair are moving.  The average days on market for townhomes listed within the past 30 days as of this writing went under contract in an average of 12 days.  (Based on a geographical map search ...