"LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME, YOU COULD ...

"LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME, YOU COULD adumbration IN A search for single-family abodes in Ashburn, Va., and you might approach up with a dozen," notes Barb Northam, with RE/MAX Choice Real Estate in nearby Fairfax. "The spring now is exponentially different. You might find 30 to one's homes that have been sitting forward the market for more than 30 days. That's simply a staggering amount of inventory for this area, where to one's homes usually have multiple bidders and betray immediately."

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