McEnearney Market in a Minute – Northern Virginia (September 2018): “With relatively flat contract activity and continuing low inventory, the still-healthy Northern Virginia real estate market heads into the fall on a good note. We expect this to continue through the balance of the year – and we also expect 2019 to be a transitional year toward a more “normal,” balanced market. More on this next month!”
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Current Market Conditions: Fall 2018
- Market trends for the first half of 2018, featuring separate reports for Alexandria, Arlington County and Falls Church City, Northern Virginia, Loudoun/Fauquier/Prince William counties, Washington, D.C. and Suburban Maryland
- Realtors: N.Va. market not being held back by interest rates, tax changes (Inside NoVA)
- The state of housing confidence in 2018 (MSN Money)
- Nearly $83K is the salary needed to buy a typical home in D.C. (Curbed DC)
- Rent-burdened in D.C.: About half city’s tenant households confront crushing costs (Curbed DC)
Homeownership/Buying Trends
- Rent vs. Buy: Suburban Edition (New York Times)
- Nearly half of D.C.-area homebuyers are Millennials (UrbanTurf DC)
- D.C. gets its first-ever affordable housing site with specific units for ‘grandfamilies’’ (Curbed DC)
- D.C.’s million-dollar neighborhoods (Urban Turf)
- D.C.’s central A/C premium (Urban Turf)
- A new report estimates how long it takes to save for a down payment in D.C. (Curbed DC)
- Low credit scores cost home buyers real money (Washington Post)
- Home ownership can still be a realistic goal for certain Washington-area renters (Greater Greater Washington)
- To buy or to rent: The great homeownership debate (Curbed)
- Their estimates may be off base … but why Zillow addicts can’t look away (New York Times)
- The American Starter Home: Expensive, small, broken down and hard to find (Trulia)
- Tax bill: Some realtors see cooling off, not collapse, of high-end home market (Curbed)
- Here’s what the final version of the tax bill means to homeowners, buyers and sellers (Washington Post)
- In the 100 largest U.S. housing markets, 9 out of 10 retirement-age baby boomers and older Americans want to stay in their homes (Wall Street Journal: Real Estate)
- Why homes in the suburbs may get hot again in 2018 (Washington Post)
Exterior/Interior Trends
- Find out the new, hot home color for 2019 (REALTOR Magazine)
- Too customized to sell? (New York Times)
- The Forecast: 2018 Trends in Staging (REALTOR Magazine)
- The return of the luxurious retro kitchen (Wall Street Journal: Real Estate)
- Ditching the Tub (New York Times)
Updated Oct. 1, 2018
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