Fairfax County leaders appear ready to battle any efforts in the 2026 General Assembly session to strip powers of local government to regulate creation of new housing.
“We want affordable housing,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay said, but the county’s lobbying efforts in Richmond would be focused on “making sure the General Assembly doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all” approach that erases local decision-making powers.
Tysons will see more construction in the new year, this time to manifest a condominium high-rise from the Ritz-Carlton.
The hospitality company has partnered with developer Renaissance Centro to bring its first residential building in Virginia to the Arbor Row neighborhood, just across the street from its hotel at Tysons Galleria.
A new condominium development is taking shape in Tysons.
Site work began earlier this fall on the Flats at Tysons, which will replace an office building parking lot at 1953 Gallows Road with 86 one- and two-bedroom residences.
The median rental cost for apartments in Tysons was down year-over-year last month but in most other areas of Fairfax County, it continued to rise, according to new data.
Tysons still maintained its ranking in September as the county’s most expensive corridor tracked by Apartment List, with a median rent of $2,389 for a one-bedroom unit and $2,865 for two bedrooms. But rental rates declined 0.7% year-over-year.
Fairfax County took a step closer last week to opening up another commercial area in Merrifield to housing.
The Fairfax County Planning Commission voted 11-0 on Sept. 17 to recommend approval of a comprehensive plan amendment that would allow future redevelopment of the 41-acre Prosperity Business Campus.
Will Fairfax County’s latest energy-efficiency initiative deliver enough bang for the buck to make it viable in an era of constrained budgets?
County supervisors weren’t so sure, but the new Energy Compass initiative will have the coming year to prove its worth.
The number of days on the market for homes that sold across Fairfax County in August was up 50% from a year before, according to new data.
The average of 24 days between listing and ratified sales contract — up from 16 in August 2024 — is a more modest jump than what D.C.’s closer-in suburbs have seen, but it still suggests prospective buyers are taking their time.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Sept. 9) adopted a package of new guidelines for relocating tenants when affordable apartments are slated for redevelopment, acquisition or condominium conversion.
“The overarching goal is to assist displaced tenants in moving to safe and affordable replacement housing convenient to their employment or school, while facilitating tenants’ return to preserved affordable units to the greatest extent possible,” county staff said in the report’s overview.
An emerging trend of developers backing off of multifamily housing in favor of single-family housing has reached Tysons.
Property owner Link Logistics is seeking more flexibility in the type of residential development allowed in The Mile, a mixed-use project originally approved in 2019 to replace a 38-acre business park in north central Tysons.
Apartment rental rates across Fairfax County pushed higher in August, bucking a national downward trend during the month.
Year-over-year median rental rates were up in six of the seven areas of the county surveyed by Apartment List. Updated figures were reported Aug. 28.
