Found 9 blog entries tagged as Alexandria VA real estate.

Should You List High in Alexandria—or Price for the First Weekend?

By Chris Colgan

If you are selling in Alexandria City, I would not use the city’s 9.1% rise in median sold price as permission to pick an aggressive list price. In August 2026, active listings reached 390 compared with 318 a year earlier, new pendings fell 22.4%, the average sold listing took 26 days, and closed sellers received 97.9% of original list price on average. Those are citywide, all-property-type signals—not a value estimate for your home.

The stronger pricing question is narrower: What are buyers choosing instead of your property, and what do the closest recent closed sales support? I would price from those answers, then agree in advance on what the first seven days of…

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Spring finally showed up — and so did sellers, buyers, and some numbers that tell a very different story depending on which county you're watching.

I'm Chris Colgan, Northern Virginia realtor and founder of Real Nova Network. Every month I pull the Bright MLS data across the counties I've worked in my entire career — Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, Fauquier, Alexandria, and beyond — and translate what it actually means for people buying, selling, and living here. April 2026 had some genuinely interesting crosscurrents worth unpacking.

The headline: the D.C. metro market is healing faster than the headlines suggest, but it is not healing evenly. Some counties are in outright seller's market territory. Others are quietly giving buyers…

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If you've been watching the Northern Virginia housing market and wondering whether things are starting to shift — the answer is yes. But it's not a collapse. It's a recalibration. And the numbers are telling a story that most people haven't heard yet.

I jumped on live recently to walk through the latest Bright MLS data county by county, and honestly, some of it surprised even me. I know these markets intimately — I grew up in Prince William County, I live here now, and I cover every corner of Northern Virginia through my YouTube channel and newsletter. And what I'm seeing right now is a clear split between the core Northern Virginia markets and the outer areas — and if you're buying or selling, you need to understand which side of that line you're on.

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I've sold real estate in Northern Virginia for 22 years. I grew up here — literally in Lawnvale, a small community in western Prince William County off Catharpin Road — and I still live here today in Haymarket with my family. I've closed over $1 billion in transactions across every county in this region, and the single most expensive mistake I see relocation buyers make is treating Northern Virginia like one market.

It isn't.

It's five completely different real estate markets stitched together by highways, Metro lines, and the gravitational pull of Washington DC. Pick the right county for your lifestyle, commute, and budget and you'll love it here. Pick the wrong one and you'll be sitting in traffic on I-66 every morning wondering what went wrong.

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The legendary Inn at Little Washington is marking nearly five decades of world-class dining and hospitality. Located just 73 miles south of Alexandria, this iconic destination is celebrating its 48th anniversary with a limited-time retrospective menu available through February 12, 2026.

According to Alexandria Living, the experience at "The Inn" is often described as performance art, where Chef Patrick O’Connell treats every guest as the star of a romantic, era-defying dinner party. Known for its whimsical charm—including the famous rolling cheese cow, Faira—the establishment remains a beacon of American cuisine.

A Sustainable Legacy

The Inn's commitment to quality extends to its roots. Much of the produce and herbs are grown on-site by…

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Every time the housing market slows down even slightly, headlines jump to extremes. Either the market is about to crash — or it’s about to take off again.

Neither of those narratives reflects what’s actually happening.

The Northern Virginia housing market heading into 2026 is best described as recalibrating. Prices are mostly still rising, homes are taking longer to sell, and buyers and sellers alike are acting more cautiously. To understand why, it helps to zoom out first and look at the national picture — because what’s happening across the country explains much of what we’re seeing locally.

The National Housing Market: Stabilizing, Not Crashing

Nationally, housing activity ended 2025 on a stronger note than many expected. Existing…

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FAIRFAX, Va. — Northern Virginia’s housing market showed clear signs of rebalancing in November 2025, with sharply higher inventory and more breathing room for buyers, even as prices continued to climb.

The big picture

Sales activity slowed compared to last year, but home values remained resilient and listing supply expanded at a pace not seen since before the pandemic-era housing crunch.

By the numbers

  • Closed sales: 1,091 homes, down 6.6% year over year

  • Total sales volume: $969.6M, down 1.6%

  • Median sold price: $740,000, up 5.7%

  • New pending sales: 1,091, up 0.7%

  • Active listings: 2,042 homes, up 45.1%

  • Average days on market: 29 days, up 31.8%

  • Months of supply: 1.48, up 41.2%

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If you had to guess which Northern Virginia city was most impacted by recent federal downsizing, where would your mind go? Most people would bet on Arlington, the long-standing hub of government operations.

But you’d be wrong.

According to a revealing report from the Brookings Institute, it's actually Alexandria, Virginia, that has been hit the hardest. At first glance, the headlines might seem alarming. But as we often say in real estate, the numbers behind the numbers tell the real story. And the story in Alexandria is one of incredible resilience.

Let's break down what's really happening.

The Alarming Numbers (On the Surface)


The data shows a clear shift. With over 13,000 federal workers living in the city, the downsizing has had a…

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The fog rolls off the Potomac just before dawn. Brick-lined streets glisten under wrought-iron lanterns. Somewhere between the historic cobblestones of Old Town Alexandria and the sterile hum of federal offices in Arlington, a serial killer waits in the shadows. This isn't a Netflix trailer — it's the opening pulse of Patricia Cornwell's Sharp Force, the 29th installment in her iconic Kay Scarpetta series. And this time, the crime scene isn't Richmond or New York. It's right here. Northern Virginia.

For those of us who've spent our lives navigating the I-66 corridor, dodging Beltway traffic, and grabbing coffee along King Street, this thriller hits different. Because Cornwell didn't just set a book in Northern Virginia — she made our home the backdrop…

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