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Magnolia Ridge is located off of Shen Lake Drive near Lakeview Golf Course on the east side of Harrisonburg, just minutes from Rockingham Memorial Hospital, and right around the corner from Lake Shenandoah. In fact, there is direct access to Lake Shenandoah (and the East Rockingham Pool) from this neighborhood, so folks can walk without [...]

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With December coming and going yet again, we’ve come to a new month AND a new year! To celebrate, we’ve put together our monthly Market Report — yes, we do find it exciting — so put your party hat back on and take a moment to review the year 2011 in local real estate statistics.
November [...]

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In September’s Market Report, we posted about the increase in sales over last year, and now in October’s Market Report, we’re happy to report that not only do year-to-date sales continue to increase, but the number of contracts also went up this month. An uptick in sales prices for October has spurred a less horrifying [...]

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For the past few months, we’ve been reporting that the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County real estate market is on the verge of some positive movement. In July, we saw that most of the June contracts hadn’t closed yet, and that sales year-over-year were down 6%. Well, the August numbers are in, and this month’s sales [...]

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We’ve turned another page in our calendars and that means it is also time for our real estate Market Report. A few updates have been made to our report because we think it needed a bit of sprucing up. We now have two main sections: Sales and Contracts. We’re also showing both month-to-month changes, and [...]

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In Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, we’re starting to see an upswing in the real estate market, which has been in a lull for quite a while after the devastating effects of the Great Recession. According to Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), “the first quarter [2011] ended with decent home [...]

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Most folks have to get a loan of some sort when purchasing a home because, lets face it, it is a large sum of money! In Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, it is typical to see buyers taking advantage of conventional financing, but many others are going with FHA, VA, and other types of loans. Take [...]

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Each time I run these reports, I want to be able to post about a major increase in sales, a sudden uptick in home values, and properties “flying off the lot,” so to speak. If ever there will be a time, this is not it, unfortunately. There are some positive changes taking place in our [...]

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Okay, we admit it. Its been a while since we’ve posted a market report. We have been keeping an eye on the current trends, but simply haven’t reported on them because we’re busy… and that is a good thing! We have re-committed to reporting the facts to our faithful readers, though, so from now on, [...]

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Massanetta Springs was established in the early 1920s. The community arose out of the Presbyterian church’s desire to house families attending the Massanetta Springs Conference Center. Gradually, the homes were sold to private individuals and in 1999, the community incorporated as a separate residential entity. Today, [...]

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