By Brian Trompeter

The Vienna Board of Zoning Appeals on July 17 unanimously granted a conditional-use permit to let a local driving-instruction school begin offering in-person classes.

It’s a doldrums-of-summer thing: The median listing price of a home across the Washington region for the week ending July 28 remained just below the $600,000 mark.

The $599,000 figure was down 0.2 percent from a week before but up 4.2 percent from a year ago, according to Bright MLS, the region’s multiple-listing service. And it is about $50,000 lower than the all-time weekly peak, set in May.

Earlier this year, Megan Sawant – a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology – was elected by the countywide Superintendent’s Advisory Council (SAC) to serve a one-year term as student representative to the Fairfax County School Board.

“It is an honor,” Sawant said at her first board meeting in July, where she succeeded Rida Karim, a junior at Woodson High School, and laid out some of her priorities for the coming year.

As part of the five-step student registration process outlined in General Registration Requirements (Grades 1 through 12) or Kindergarten Registration, parents or legal guardians will need to provide proof of immunizations as required by Virginia law for attendance at a public school, Fairfax County Public Schools officials note.

What is required, per the school sytem:

It was almost a photo-finish, but the Fairfax County real-estate market edged over the billion-dollar mark in July by a nose.

With 1,220 transactions and an average sales price of $849,736, total market volume for the month stood at $1.025 billion. That’s up 22 percent from the $839.8 million recorded in July 2023, according to figures from Bright MLS, based on data from MarketStats by ShowingTime.

FAIRFAX COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Some Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) grads are walking across the stage on July 31 instead of next June, almost a full year ahead of schedule.

By Brian Trompeter

Vienna residents and visitors now can get some exercise, learn about three dozen kinds of flowers and visit scores of town businesses by taking part in the new “Vienna in Bloom Streetscape Tour.”

Those in the market to purchase single-family homes across the Washington region are finding both availability and affordability challenges, while on the flip side, the inventory of condominiums across the market has returned to pre-pandemic levels.

And despite the prospect of lower mortgage-interest rates toward the end of the year, sellers are likely to retain the upper hand in the single-family market through 2024, according to analysis by Bright MLS, the region’s multiple-listing network.