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TOMU High Amenity Modular Dwellings
TOMU creates high amenity modular dwellings for leisure and hospitality. The villas come 95% complete with heating and air conditioning, high-efficiency windows...
Buyer Agents in DC
House hunting typically begins online. Many buyers, especially first time home buyers, look at homes for sale and dream about homeownership. At some point, whet...
What You Should Know About Maryland State Homestead Tax Credit
To help Maryland homeowners offset large assessment increases on their principal residence, the state of Maryland established the Homestead Property Tax Credit.
20,000 New Black Homeowners by 2030 in Washington D.C.
Mayor Muriel Bowser has launched the Black Homeownership Strike Force or BHSF in an effort to address home ownership disparities in Washington D.C.For years, B...
Washington DC Metro Market Update
December 2022 saw the lowest number of new pending sales since 2014.At the same time, the median price fell year over year for the first time since 2016 which...
What's It Like To Live on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
Capitol Hill is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington DC. Eastern Market, Potomac Ave and Capitol South are the Capitol Hill Metro station...
Living in Silver Spring Maryland
This video from HomeBuyer Brokerage gives a quick overview of Silver Spring Maryland. Adjacent to Washington D.C., Silver Spring Maryland has four Metro station...
What is TOPA?
The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act was enacted over thirty years ago by the D.C. Council. It was an effort to protect renters from being kicked out of their...
BREAKING NEWS Beware of Housing Market News Headlines
In a college class I took years ago, a teacher played a film of a protest at a U.S. embassy in a foreign country. The camera person was surrounded by protestors...
Will A Rise in Conforming Loan Limit Impact Home Buyers?
What does a rise in the Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac conforming loan limit mean for home buyers? Ramez Fahmy is a mortgage lender and the branch manager for Caliber...
Buyer Representation in Washington D.C., Maryland & Virginia
Real estate representation matters. Listing agents represent the needs of home sellers. Shouldn't home buyers have full representation too?
How Paying Rent May Improve Credit Scores
Freddie Mac announced a partnership in early November 2022 with Esusu, a company that works with property managers and renters to report rental payments to cred...