Capital Homes: Pat Kennedy’s Washington, D.C., Real Estate Blog

There are lots of web sites out there promising you all kinds of help you might not need if you are buying or selling a house or condo. It might be access to a gazillion lenders or real estate agents who will cut interest rates or commissions for a crack at your business. [...]

I just got home from showing a bunch of houses in my favorite champagne-taste, beer-budget neighborhoods, and one of them looked amazing on the MRIS.
It was the only house in this neighborhood that actually was beer budget. It wasn’t the style my buyers were looking for, but they wanted a big lot, and this [...]

If you are a Washington Area consumer trying to make sense of news reports about the local real estate market, you really have to listen carefully and read between the lines.
If, for example, you are listening to a nightly news report on a national network or cable news program, you will be getting information about [...]

Since I actually met the Zillow folks at BloggersConnect last week, I’m almost tempted to take down the couple of rants I’ve done in a couple of blog posts, but as I learned, “Once on the Internet, always on the Internet”.
Here in Washington, there are special challenges for any company trying to get an on-line [...]