Oak View Elementary School is a Fairfax County School on Sideburn Road in Fairfax.  Though it is right across the street from Robinson High School, it feeds both Robinson and Woodson High Schools.  This post provides information on the real estate situation on neighborhoods that feed Oak View.  If you are searching for homes in [...]

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 [...]

Fair Ridge is located in western Fairfax, just west of Fair Oaks Mall. It is the area north of Route 50 and west of West Ox Road. The neighborhood consists of about 500 town homes that were built in the late 1980s. The town homes are generally between 1400 and 1800 square feet on the [...]

The Warren Woods neighborhood is in the Southwest corner of Fairfax City.  It is sandwiched between Joyce Heights and Westmore in the city, and Fairfax Villa, which is a neighborhood in Fairfax County.  It is made up of 153 homes that were built in the mid 1950s.  They are principally brick and block construction with [...]

Old Lee Hills is a neighborhood in the middle of Fairfax City. It is made up of several subdivisions including: Old Post Estates, Heritage Manor, Greenway Hills, Fairmont Estates, Amans Fairmont Estates, and a couple of other very small subdivisions. Old Lee Hills is made up of 255 detached homes generally built in the 50s [...]

I recently answered a question on Trulia from somebody who asked if Fairfax City was a good place to buy a home. I wanted to just yell “yes” when I read it because anybody who has ever lived in Fairfax City knows that it is absolutely a great place to buy a home, and an [...]