The Saranac community in Gainesville, VA offers single family homes in a natural setting along Lake Manassas. Builders include Brookfield and NV Homes. I’m there as a buyers agent helping clients with an NV Home.

RE/MAX Chairman and Co-Founder, Dave Liniger, reveals his top 10 predictions for the U.S. real estate market for 2012. These are nationwide predictions. In the Northern Virginia area, we have already been experiencing a great real estate market for the last year or so.

Here’s an example of one of my Craigslist advertisements. In addition to the MLS, I regularly post advertisements in Craigslist and MilitaryByOwner. It’s not formatted for this post but this link will render it correctly as it appears on Craigslist.

This video has been updated for 2011. It is also why most of my marketing efforts are Internet focused. A home seller absolutely requires an online real estate marketing plan to help get their home sold. The old days were a little easier. Postcards and cold calling. Now it’s blog, Facebook, YouTube (and/or Vimeo), Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist and militarybyowner primarily. It’s a lot more work but being a tech guy in a former career, I prefer it. It’s also more productive, in my opinion.

Market Watch for several Maryland counties

Market Watch video for the Northern Virginia Area

I wish more clients would share nice words like this! Nothing is more powerful than a direct endorsement shared with friends or followers. I am very lucky to have such nice people to work with. Many of the people I help end up as permanent friends too. That’s one of the many perks to being a real estate agent.