About Samson Realtor.com

This is the Samson Realtor.com website with resources, links and information about Northern VA Real Estate. A companion site
to this website is the NOVA Real Estate Blog. I am a member of the National Association of REALTORS, Virginia Association of
REALTORS and the Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS. I am a licensed real estate agent throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. I am a member of the MLS serving all of Northern VA which is called Metropolitan Regional Information System or MRIS for short. I have been a multiple year recipient of the Multi-Million Dollar Sales Club Award and have qualified for the Top Producer Award for 2007.

I was originally licensed as a real estate agent in 1990 and went to work with Samson Associates in Oakton VA. In 2002 I hung
my license with Brookside Realty Group in Chantilly VA. Since the fall of 2005 I have been with Samson Realty LLC in
Chantilly VA. Throughout my real estate career I have only worked under one managing Real Estate Broker, Mike Briggs.

Like most Northern Virginia Real Estate Agents I represent clients as both a Buyer Agent and Seller Agent. If you are selling
a home Samson Realty offers four percent or four and a half percent listings. I provide a Free Competitive Market Analysis to
assist Seller's in setting a List Price for their properties. Home values and resale values are ever changing in the current
market and it is essential that you can an up-to-date Home Assessment. I have decades of sales and marketing experience and your home will be fully exposed to the real estate market including multi-photo packages, slide shows, virtual tours and
considerable Internet exposure on all the most popular real estate portals.

For Buyer clients I offer Cash Back Rebates if approved by your lender and itemized on the HUD 1 at settlement. I work with a
wide variety of Buyer's from First Time Buyers to Move Up Buyers to Downsizers to Investors. I'm experienced in assisting buyers locate and purchase all types of new home and residential resale properties including but not limited to: Investment Property, 1031 exchange, Retirement Community, Active Adult Community, Retirement Homes, Senior Condos, Active Adult Homes, Corporate Relocation, Military Relocation, Fixer Upper Homes, House Flips, No Money Down Purchases.

Moving to Northern Virginia? Being part of the Greater Washington DC National Capitol Area offers numerous fringe benefits to the Northern VA lifestyle. Public Schools throughout Northern VA are very highly regarded and well funded. Fairfax County Public Schools and Loudoun County Public Schools are ranked among America's best with outstanding SAT and SOL scores. Home prices in Northern Virginia are relatively high and relocation expenses and housing costs can be more than expected for the newcomer, corporate relocation or government transferee. It is advisable for homebuyers to secure the skills of an experienced Northern VA real estate agent or REALTOR to assist in their relocation housing search and needs.

For Home Buyers, I will provide Virginia housing information upon request including property data and MLS Listings on VA
homes for sale including new housing developments and residential resale properties. Virginia homes for sale including single family, townhomes and condominium communities near Washington DC, inside the beltway, in the Northern VA suburban neighborhoods or in the outlying rural communities.

If you are looking to purchase a new home there are many home builders with new home communities in this area such as:
Arcadia Building Co., The Berry Companies, Centex Homes, Comstock Homes, Craftsmark, Creighton Enterprises, Beazer Homes, NV Homes, Equity Homes, Brookfield Homes, Basheer & Edgemoore, D.R. Horton, Drees Homes, Edgemoore Homes, Elite Homes, Engle Homes, Gulick Group Homes, Keystone, Kettler Brothers, K Hovnanian Homes, Lennar Homes, Marquis Custom Homes, M/I Homes, Michael Harris Homes, Miller and Smith, Mitchell and Best, Pulte Homes, Richmond American Homes, Ryan homes, Ryland, Schulz Homes Corp., Stanley Martin, Toll Brothers, Van Metre Homes, Washington Homes, WCI/ Renaissance, Wetherburne Homes and Winchester Homes. In addition, the NOVA Real Estate Market includes countless Custom Home Builders and Spec Builders targeted to various levels of home buyers.

A brief list of some of the available new home communities includes but is not limited to: Arista at Edward's Landing, Barclay Woods, Beacon Downs, Beacon Hills, Beauregard Overlook, Black Oak Estates, Brambleton, Canby Estates, Catoctin Springs, Chateaux II at River Creek, Cooke's Crossing, Courtland Rural

Village, Oaklawn, Beacon Downs, The Dakota at Loudoun Station, Eagle Ridge at River Creek, Evergreen Woods, Goose Creek Bend, Greene Mill Preserve, Glenhaven, Grenata, Hamilton Ridge, Hamlets at Red Cedar, Hawks View Glen, King's Crossing, Kirkpatrick Farm, Lansdowne on the Potomac, Leisure World of Virginia, Martins Chase Village, Potomac Crossing, Potomac Station, Red Cedar West, The Commons at Bellemeade, Raspberry Falls, The Reserve at Oatlands, The Reserve at Rokeby Farm, River Creek, Estates at Shenstone Farm, Stone Ridge, Stratford Club, Village Green, Village Green at Elysian Heights and The Woodlands at Round Hill.

As a Samson Realty Agent I offer 1% CASH BACK REBATE Credit available for new construction home purchases. The Cashback incentive is typically calculated from new home real estate base price on new Northern VA Homes, new Northern VA Townhouses and new Northern VA Condominiums. Rebates are subject to individual builder cooperative policies and procedures. Contact John Thompson prior to visiting home building communities for special offers, construction incentives and 1% cash back eligibility. Builders typically require that you register your Buyer Agent on the first visit to the new home community. John is a new home construction expert and has completed specialized education and training to represent home buyers in the purchase of new homes. Brokerage services commissions are paid by home building corporations and are free of charge to new home buyers.

Northern Virginia New Construction Housing Markets Served: Alexandria, Annandale, Arlington, Aldie, Ashburn, Brambleton,
Bristow, Burke, Centreville, Chantilly, Clifton, Dale City, Dulles, Fairfax, Fairfax City, Falls Church, Gainesville, Great Falls, Hamilton, Haymarket, Herndon, Kirkpatrick Farms, Lakeridge, Leesburg, Lorton, Manassas, McLean, Middleburg, Montclair, Mt. Vernon, Oakton, Occoquan, Potomac Falls, Purcellville, Quantico, Reston, Round Hill, South Riding, Springfield, Sterling, Stone Ridge, Vienna, and Woodbridge.

Find a new home: In addition to substantial local new construction housing knowledge, I utilize the Northern Virginia MLS & MRIS listings to search for new houses, evaluate current home values and negotiate building contracts for new home buyers of single family homes, town homes and condominiums. Fairfax County new homes, Loudoun County new homes, Fauquier County new homes and Prince William County new homes are typically listed in the MLS and available for searching as New Home Listings. Loudoun County and Prince William County are the fastest growing real estate markets in Northern Virginia and also among the fastest growing communities in the USA.

Northern VA has a wide variety of real estate to choose from with condos, coops, duplexes, high rise, mid rise, garden style, town houses, row houses, detached homes, patio homes, executive estates, equestrian estates, mcmansions, farmettes and working farms. With most of the inside the beltway properties built prior to 1970 we have traditional colonials, salt boxes, ramblers, ranchers, split levels, split foyers and cape cods closer-in to Washington DC. The further out you explore for your new home the more modern the architectural designs, styles and floor plans and (typically) the newer the real estate properties.

Whenever you consider a real estate sale or real estate purchase you should familiarize yourself with the local real estate market. Of course you should be able to count on an experience real estate professional for advice and market trends. Are we in a Buyer's Market or a Seller's Market? What about the real estate boom of 2000-2005 or the Northern VA Real Estate Bubble that burst in 2006-2007? Does the market really matter? Are there always opportunities in every real estate market? As an experience real estate agent I would say "definitely YES!" As we are about to enter 2008, there is a lot of good real estate for sale in Northern Virginia including: residential homes for sale, new home construction, investment property and even some raw land and lots for sale. The residential resale homes market has been very stable in the more affluent Northern VA communities. Short Sales, Pre-Foreclosures and Foreclosures have been more concentrated in lower valued single family, town home and condo neighborhoods.

Unfortunately, there is not a lot of money in the rental real estate market. The time and effort helping a Landlord rent an
investment property or helping a tenant find a rental condo, rental townhouse or rental home is just not adequately rewarded
when time and effort are balanced against rental commissions. As a service to the public and to promote future business or
serve future clients I attempt to assist in a rental transaction per month. Homes for rent, Rent to own, Rent with Option to
Buy. Samson Realty has recently launched a property management division and I look forward to future assistance from within the Samson Realty Property Management Office.