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Workhouse Arts Center & Laurel Hill: How Lorton Went From Prison Town to Hot Market

For most of the twentieth century, Lorton had one association, and it was not a good one. This is where Washington, D.C. sent its prisoners, on a site that eventually sprawled to 3,500 acres and ran for ninety-one years. If you grew up in Northern Virginia before 2001, "Lorton" meant the prison, ful

Meadowlark Gardens Real Estate Guide: Homes Near Vienna's Quietest Corner

Ask someone in Vienna what Meadowlark is and you get one of two answers. Visitors say "the lights place," meaning the Winter Walk of Lights that pulls half of Northern Virginia through the gates every December. Locals say something quieter: it is where you go on a Tuesday morning when you need ninet

Opendoor & Offerpad for Virginia Sellers: Fees, Offers & Fine Print

If you have typed "Offerpad Virginia" or "Opendoor Northern Virginia" into a search bar, you deserve a straight answer before anything else, and it is not the answer most articles give you: as of this writing, only one of these two companies actually buys homes in Virginia. Plenty of national compar

Earnest Money vs. Down Payment: What Virginia Buyers Actually Pay and When

  Almost every Virginia buyer we meet has the same quiet worry: they have heard they need earnest money, they know they need a down payment, and somewhere in their head those two numbers have been added together into a figure that feels impossible. They are two different payments, made at two differ