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Pricing America’s Largest Home

Casey Samson, One of the Countries Top Real Estate Evaluators, Takes a Swing at Pricing America’s Largest Home.  At 175,000 sq ft, The Biltmore Estate is America’s largest home. Built in 1895 by George Vanderbilt on 8000 acres, the h...

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Selecting a Realtor

Thinking of buying or selling but you don't know where to start?  The first thing you may ask is "How to select a Realtor?" “Selecting a Realtor is a critical decision. You need to decide what kind of information is interesting and what k...

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The First Ten Days

The First 10 Days: Sellers Get Maximum Value for their Homes Statistics from SmartCharts, a real estate statistics engine, show that buyers in Northern Virginia pay the maximum Price Per Sq Ft (PPSF) for homes in the first 10 days. Northern V...

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What is Your Home Worth?

What is your home worth? Don't ask the internet!  The accuracy of the online pricing engines (Realtor Property Resource, Realtor.com, Zillow, Homesnap and Redfin) are only accurate 9% of the time!  The Casey Samson Team Pricing Model, th...

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Two Traps Sellers Face When Pricing A Home

A Good Market Does Not Mean You Can Over Price Your Home Our team tracks homes for a living, including 39 homes that were listed with Realtors who over priced the home. What we found: 20% Success Rate  8 homes sold or ar...

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Why Staging Your Home Pays

Why Staging Your Home Pays. Most homes have a traditional style. Today’s buyers are looking for transitional homes. Over 83% of buyers find it easier to "visualize the property as their future home" when it's staged in transitional sty...

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A Local Chef’s Dream Kitchen

We asked a Vienna local and owner/chef at Bazin's on Church, Patrick Bazin, what he would have in his "Dream Kitchen" "Being a Chef and owning a restaurant and catering business for 15 years I have worked in many home kitchens in the Vienna ...

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The First Ten Days

The First 10 Days  Statistics show that $1,000,000 sellers lose $1,000/day after the first 10 days. Homes under one million lose the same amount but the spread is typically over the first 30 days. Our team sold $21.5M in the first quar...

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Update Your Home

We are closing out 2019 and looking forward to 2020 with a new post on updating your home. 40% of homes in our market don't sell and this is due to over pricing or lack of updates. Even if you are not thinking of selling it is still importa...

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West Coast Trends Benefit Northern Virginia Sellers

  Casey Samson has always kept an eye on the major West Coast markets of San Jose, Seattle and Los Angeles for the latest innovations in the real estate market. Translating those trends to the East Coast market has benefited his sellers...

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