Author: Scott McCaffrey

The spring home-selling season across much of the GazetteLeader’s Fairfax coverage area is getting under way missing one thing.

The sellers.

A year ago right about this time, home-sellers across Fairfax County were hustling to get their properties on the market in anticipation – correctly, as it turned out – that things soon would be turning sour as interest rates rose and affordability issues priced out some would-be buyers.

So it’s perhaps no surprise that the 831 properties that came onto the Fairfax market this February represented a decline of 41 percent from the 1,410 homes coming to listing a year ago.

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Adult and Community Education (ACE) recently announced two of its Adult and Community Education Training and Scholarship Foundation recipients for spring 2023 classes.

Darlene Wilcher and Miguel Anco, both students in the Apprenticeship track, have been awarded financial support for the upcoming session.

Photo by Jama Green for Virginia Tech.

A team of Virginia Tech researchers and students is preparing to deliver a 3U CubeSat for space-launch-qualification testing.

They stumbled and they tumbled in January, but things might be looking up for home sales across Fairfax County as spring approaches.

A total of 552 properties went to closing during what traditionally is one of the slowest months of the year in local real estate, according to new figures.

Despite a chilly home-sales report for January, leaders of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR) are upbeat on the market’s prospects going into springtime.

“The buyers and sellers I work with are motivated and adjusting to higher mortgage rates,” said Peter Bixby of Compass, a member of the NVAR board of directors.

With spring on the horizon, Virginia’s real-estate professionals seem a somewhat more upbeat bunch.

Responses to the Virginia Realtors’ trade group’s monthly “flash survey” of the membership found a more positive view of both current and future conditions, following a year that saw the marked whiplash between being red hot at the beginning and stone cold at the end.

After a one-month burst in December where the Fairfax County single-family homes market again joined the seven-figure club, the market in January flew a little less high.

The average sales price of single-family homes that sold across the county during the first month of the new year stood at $977,209, according to figures reported by MarketStats by ShowingTime based on listing activity from Bright MLS.

It’s been more than 80 years since a Major Leaguer hit .400. But new Del. Holly Seibold did it her first year in Virginia’s political big leagues.

Seibold (D-Vienna-Oakton) managed to get two of her five bills through the Republican-led House of Delegates and into the friendlier confines of the state Senate during her first weeks in office.