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 [...]

Earlier this week, I got a call from an agent who showed a listing I have. His people loved it, he said, but the husband was out of town until the end of the week. They planned to make an offer Friday or Saturday.This afternoon, Saturday, as I was driving to my Mother’s [...]

We’ve all seen the showing instructions on the Multiple Listing Service:
“Fido, the family dog, is friendly.  He might lick you, but he won’t bite.”
OK, that’s reassuring. So you and your clients get to the front door and hear the welcoming bark - or is this the bark usually reserved for the mailman?  Or burglars?  It’s hard [...]