Below is a spreadsheet with the number of sales and listings in the City of Fairfax each month for the las 2.5 years. The September numbers show that 18% of the homes on the market in Fairfax City sold. This implies a 6 month market for the city. I always hesitate to say that for [...]
Barristers Keepe is a small neighborhood in the City of Fairfax, Virginia consisting of 40 homes. It is a gated community; you need to key in a code to enter the neighborhood. The lot sizes are very small 0.1 acre and less. The houses are between 2566 and 2788 square feet and are very close together. The neighborhood [...]
In June, the Fairfax City Real Estate market had it’s best month since June of 2007. 19% of the available inventory went under contract last month. The chart below has the statistics from the past two years on a month by month basis for Fairfax City home sales. Related Posts:5 Highest Priced Home Sales in [...]
The Fairfax City housing market sold at a rate of 12% last month. That means that it is taking the average house over 8 months to sell. This is down from a 14% rate in February and lags the Northern Virginia market as a whole which sold at a 17% rate in March. The difference [...]
I came across this profile of the Farr House today from a local wedding planner. There are some good interior photos of the house and information on how much it costs to rent. It is owned and operated by the Farrcroft Homeowners Association and you can find information about the house and how to rent [...]
City Manager Robert Sisson has proposed to the City Council that they raise the rate for Property taxes from the current $o.72 per $100 of value to $0.835, an increase of about 16% on the rate. This comes after the assessments on most homes went down in the latest round of reassessments. The amount would [...]
Sales in Fairfax City in January remained sluggish with only nine of the 166 houses on the market going under contract. That is a 5% rate of sale, which implies a 20-month supply of homes on the market. That is in sharp contrast to the 14% rate houses are selling in Northern Virginia as a [...]
There are 11 Open Houses listed in the MLS for this weekend (all on Sunday afternoon), and you can see the whole list here. You can also do a search for open houses here. We may get a few snow flurries Sunday afternoon, but the weather should be fine for seeing homes. Happy Hunting to [...]
This blog/website is still in the infant stages of its development. My desire is to make this a great resource for residents of Fairfax City and for people considering moving to the city. In my work as a real estate agent with RE/MAX Choice, I spend a lot of time with people who are choosing [...]
