Yes, I realize we are at the lake not the beach… and some people find it tacky to decorate a lake house with beach décor, so call me tacky! But my ‘tacky’ will be mostly relegated to my new She-Shed, currently being transformed into a finished, decorated space that I will enjoy using as a craft room and seashell art …
While we’re waiting for temperatures to rise here at Lake Anna, how do we elevate our time indoors?! With many homes here at the lake being retirement forever homes and full-time luxury homes, dreams come to life in basements as well as boathouses! The sky’s the limit for how these folks have interpreted their fun custom spaces! Let’s take a …
Ever since She Sheds became ‘a thing’, I have wanted one. And when my seashells started overtaking the man cave garage, the need became a little more imminent. Hence, the purchase and finishing and decorating of my new She Shed, which has inspired a very special contest… and the first of its kind! Follow my She Shed progress as it …
Maybe we just needed a minute… rates didn’t get historically high, they just got higher than what we got used to, causing this “all-of-a-sudden” perception of housing unaffordability, when in reality, things were just balancing themselves back out. Or were they? The Federal Reserve Members (the stuffed shirts we call ‘The Feds’) are faced with a delicate do-si-do of balancing …
Where do we even start with this controversy? Can we blame it on COVID? Possibly! Let’s face it, COVID ignited a real estate boom here at Lake Anna. When working from home became the new normal, DC and Northern Virginia commuters found themselves buying that lake house sooner than they thought they could or would be able to. Many of …
By Tiffany Hazelwood As 2023 comes to a close, one of the biggest things we will happily bid farewell to will be the fickle fate of mortgage rates! When the ball drops at midnight, join me in raising a glass to a more forgiving 2024! But let’s take a look at where we’ve been as an indication of where we’re …
By Tiffany Hazelwood, Associate Broker, Lake Homes Realty Wait, is the market stagnant? Debbie Downers who are only focused on higher-than-recent interest rates, but lower-than-historically-high interest rates would say yes. But supply-and-demand actualities reveal that there are still more buyers than homes for sale (in most markets), and with lake homes being second homes for a lot of owners, there …
Lake Anna Real Estate: Vanishing now… Wait, where did it go? Sit down for this one. A whopping $106,052,882.00 of water-oriented residential real estate has changed hands at Lake Anna, year to date. This includes waterfront homes, waterfront land, water-access homes and water-access land, but does not include new construction homes whose value will not hit the market until they …
