Haymarket Real Estate | Bristow Real Estate

I have been spending a lot of time working with first time buyers lately.  One of the biggest issues that stands out is the terrible shape of our housing, especially those short sale and foreclosure types of properties that are priced where they are affordable to first time buyers (investors too).  What has been even more frustrating is ...

I recently received this in an email from a prospective new client:  We are interested in a 3-4 bdr single family in Gainesville or Haymarket area for a sale price of $250,000. I realize that is low, but I'm sure there are some folks out there that will take that in this market. we are also interested in any foreclosures (that have not ...

What an incredible time.  Lenders are closing their doors or laying off 1,000's of workers.  Home builders are cutting back or closing their doors. Realtors are leaving the business in record numbers - some say that less than half of us will be left when this is all over.  Homeowners are walking away from their homes, the media ...

At the beginning of the month I try and sit down and update the numbers that I publish on my web site.  Since Bristow, Gainesville and Haymarket are ground zero for my business and since the web site is SearchHaymarket.com this makes some small amount of sense to me.  As I update the numbers for each community, I get a feeling for where ...

This seems to have been my week to work with desperate families that are looking to short sales and preforeclosures as a means of getting out from under debt that has become unmanageable.  I'm happy to do what I can to help, but there is a lot of outright bad information, misinformation, and confusing information floating around. In ...