Indoor Air Quality Can Suffer When Home Is Too Snug
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the air quality in your home can be up to 10 times more polluted than outdoor air. More »
Feeding Off Neighborly Curiosity
At the annual neighborhood potluck progressive dinner in Cabin John this spring, everyone wanted to see Rob Morgan and Janice Erich's house. The artichoke dip, stuffed mushrooms and hummus appetizers were just part of the attraction. More »
Protecting Its Connection to the Past
Vera Henderson's neighborhood, a small enclave of solid brick 1950s rowhouses sporting stoops, aluminum awnings and chain link fences, was once the close-knit domain of generations of black families in Alexandria. More »
CALENDAR
Here are some events that builders and developers have scheduled locally for would-be home buyers in the coming weeks. All are free and open to the public. More »
Title Changes Could Spell Trouble
Q: DEAR BOB: A few years ago, I added my daughter's name to the title to my home. At the time, I was ill and she took good care of me. However, I recovered. She moved away and is no longer close to me. More »
Diverse Paths Cross in Md. Neighborhood
A few weeks ago, a moving van pulled into Montgomery County's South Four Corners community and deposited a young couple at their new house on Brunett Avenue. For Brian Barth, 26, the neighborhood felt like home long before that day, though. More »
New Housing Thrives at Old Haunts
DANVERS, Mass. -- In real estate, not even spooky trumps location. More »
2 Legs Up With a 2nd Home
Film producer Randy Auerbach just bought a one-bedroom condo in the District that will serve as an East Coast bookend to her pink cottage near Beverly Hills. Babak Fouladi, a George Washington University alumnus, added a condo in Northwest to go with his flat in London. And Mark Goode, head of an... More »
Redefining Property Values
The survey went to thousands of people who'd called a number on highway billboards announcing that Ladera Ranch, a new planned community in Orange County, Calif., was coming soon. More »
Real Estate Calendar
Here are some events that builders and developers have scheduled locally for would-be home buyers in the coming weeks. All are free and open to the public. More »
Who Has Legal Property Rights?
Q: DEAR BOB: My son married and bought a home in 2001, but the house is titled under the name of his wife's daughter. The reason was my daughter-in-law owed the Internal Revenue Service a large amount of money. More »
Bending Starker Exchange Rules Can Be Risky Business
Q: What can you do with the investment property you have obtained by way of a Starker exchange? No one I know who has done an exchange has, in my opinion, kept the property as investment. More »
Doors Close for Real Estate Speculators
Investors who sought quick profits buying and selling real estate in the Washington region are in full retreat, dampening demand for homes, most notably for condos. More »
Contractor's Bid Too Low? Don't Bite.
Azaleas and tulips aren't the only visitors that breeze into Washington each spring. More »
Building Blogs
As her husband stood nearby on a ladder, Amanda Forster sat poised, digital camera and laptop computer at hand, ready to chronicle the ordeal re-hanging kitchen cabinets to fit around a new stainless steel refrigerator. More »
Ties to Far-Flung Homes Drive Commuters to Great Lengths
The mountains -- Blue Ridge to the east, Massanutten to the west -- loom over Luray, Va., but their outlines are barely visible in the dark as the men gather in the park-and-ride at 3:50 a.m. The day's driver gets behind the wheel of the van, a nine-year-old Dodge, seven others pile in behind him,... More »
Advice for 'Do-It-Yourself' Home Sellers
Q: DEAR BOB: Twelve years ago, we successfully sold our home by ourselves and saved the real estate sales commission. Now we are trying to sell our townhouse without an agent and are encountering nothing but problems. More »
Real Estate Calendar
Here are some events that builders and developers have scheduled locally for would-be home buyers in the coming weeks. All are free and open to the public. More »
'For Sale by Owner' Means Cutting Commission, but at What Cost?
Michael Mou and his wife listed their two-bedroom Arlington condo with a real estate agent last fall but didn't get a bite in 60 days. Now they're planning to remodel the kitchen and try to sell the unit, near the Court House Metro station, themselves. More »
It May Not Be Good To Get an Allowance
The allowance you got when you were a kid is nothing like an allowance in a construction contract. Unlike your parents, your contractor is not giving you anything when an allowance is included in the deal. More »
Taking Root in Common Ground
After Christine Lubinski ran out of gardening room in her Capitol Hill yard, she looked for new territory -- the weed-filled strip of land running between the sidewalk and the busy city street. More »
Wheaton's Challenge: A Revival That Keeps Its Ethnic Soul
After a series of failed attempts to breathe life back into a downtown that had turned seedy, Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan promised at the start of this decade that he was going to "revitalize Silver Spring or die trying." More »
Blink and They're Still There
Misty and Steven DiPietro have had a for-sale sign in front of their house for 83 days now. A neighbor's has been there seven months. Down the street, there are two more houses for sale, and around the corner, four more. More »
Real Estate Calendar
Here are some events that builders and developers have scheduled locally for would-be home buyers in the coming weeks. All are free and open to the public. More »