Northern Virginia Homes for Sale

For Buyers


Buying a home is an exciting time in one's life. Making the smart move of choosing a REALTOR® is your first step to ensuring that your new home and community meets your needs. Our services and experience range from financial aid to helping you find the home that best suits you and your family. For your convenience, we also provide listings by email. We pride ourselves on repeat business and hope you'll come to understand why.

How We Can Help
Before you start looking
Closing Costs
The Proven Home Buying System

As Your Agent, We Will:

  • Assure that you see all the properties in the area that meet your criteria.
  • Guide you through the entire home buying process, from finding homes to look at, to getting the best financing.
  • Make sure you don't pay too much for your new home and help you avoid costly mistakes.
  • Answer all of your questions about the local market area, including schools, neighborhoods, the local economy, and more.

Before You Start Looking For Your New Home:

  • Check your credit rating. Straighten out any errors before its too late.
  • Determine a comfortable monthly budget for your new purchase, including down payment and monthly payment.
  • Find a loan program that meets your needs and get pre-qualified (preferably pre-approved).
  • Choose a REALTOR® that you trust and who understands your needs.
  • Determine what neighborhood best matches your needs.
  • Identify important features you need your new home to have.

Closing Costs to Expect:

  • Lender fees include charges for loan processing, underwriting, preparation and establishing an escrow account.
  • Third-party fees include charges for insurance, title search, and other inspections such as termites.
  • Government fees include deed recording and state & local mortgage taxes.
  • Escrow and interest fees include homeowner's insurance, loan interest, real estate taxes, and occasionally private mortgage insurance.

Find out how much your closing costs could be.

The Proven Home Buying System:

Our team believes in more than just a home for everybody.  We believe that in order to succeed we must provide personalized service from different members, work together to get the job done right, use different methods to find the right house for you, and let you know how you can help to make the process go even faster.  We call this system The Proven Home Buying System.  To help our clients understand what the Proven Home Buying System is we have created an easy to follow guide available in Adobe PDF format (you must have Adobe PDF to view the document).  Click here to view the Proven Home Buying System guide or right click and select Save Target As to download it to your computer. 

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Robert McGlothlin