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December 14th, 2011 Categories: Crofton News
If you missed “A Crofton Village Christmas”, you can still view photos of all the homes when you visit the Crofton Village Garden Club website. Just click on this link for A Crofton Village Christmas – Photos.
I had the privilege of touring all the homes and taking lots of pictures so that visitors wouldn’t have to. Then I narrowed down the many photos to 15 per house and put them into a slidelshow for the homeowners, garden club members and tour participants to enjoy.
Many thanks to all the homeowners, who did a fabulous job of decorating their homes for this event: Antoinette and Don Kellaher, Katie and John Dentler, Nancy and George Percivall, Linda and Wes Jordan, Betsy and Clyde Grimm, and Sally and Gary Moore. Each of you has a unique and beautiful home!
Funds raised through this holiday home tour will be used to promote the projects of Crofton Village Garden Club and National Garden Clubs, Inc. in Crofton and the surrounding area.
These include our signature project of decorating the Crofton Village Green and front gate each holiday season, donating wreathes to Crofotn schools and the Crofton library, helping to maintain the front entrance area of Crofton Library, maintaining the memorial garden our club developed at the Crofton Village Green, donating patriotic-themed floral arrangements to veterans at the Baltimore Rehabilitation Center, garden therapy at the Crofton Rehabilitation Center, the rain gardens to be built at Lake Louise, and many others.
Congratulations to the garden club for a wonderful holiday event!
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When will Waugh Chapel South Open?
December 7th, 2011 Categories: Crofton News
After a year of construction, Waugh Chapel South is taking shape. Before long, traffic will be tied up on Route 3 because of vehicles headed to and from the new 80–acre shopping and dining mecca instead of the road construction we’ve experienced for several months. The completed project will include over a million square feet of integrated retail, office and residential mixed use development.
Target is set to open on March 3, with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Petco following soon after, in April. Most residents probably aren’t very interested in this news (since locations exist for these retailers within minutes of Crofton already), but there’s real excitement about Regal Cinema opening in June and Wegman’s in October.
Greenburg Gibbons Commercial will manage Waugh Chapel South, as they do The Village at Waugh Chapel, Hunt Valley Towne Center, and Annapolis Town Centre at Parole, named 2010 “Project of the Year“ by the Land Development Council’s Excellence in Community Development Awards.
Here are some of the businesses you can expect to see in 2012 and beyond:
Banks
- Bank of Annapolis
- Columbia Bank
- PNC Banc
Entertainment
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Regal Cinema
Restaurants
- Coal Fire Pizza
- Fui Japanese Steakhouse
- Green Turtle
- Panera Bread
- Qdoba
- Silver Spring Thai
- Subway Cafe
- Yogurt Vi
Retail & Services
- AT&T
- Bed Bath & Beyond
- Bubbles
- Dick’s
- Five Below
- Massage Envy
- Petco
- Sleepy’s
- Snip-Its
- Sports Clips
- Target
- Verizon
- Vision Works
- Vitamin Shoppe
- Wegman’s
This area has come a long way since we moved to Crofton and didn’t mind driving to Bowie or Annapolis for gas or groceries. Many of us remember the uproar of residents over development of the early shopping centers in this area, but that hasn’t prevented us from enjoying their convenience. I’m sure we’ll soon be happily shopping and dining at Waugh Chapel South, but I hope Crofton’s existing businesses will survive the competition. Hopefully the county will put a moratorium on future commercial development in this area for a while.
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Lower Closing Costs for Teachers
December 2nd, 2011 Categories: Crofton Real Estate 3
Are you a public school teacher in Bowie or anywhere in Prince George’s County, Maryland? If so, your closing costs for the purchase a home in the County will be lower than your neighbors.
Prince George’s County offers a reduction in the County Transfer Tax from 1.4% to 1% when a teacher purchases improved residential property to use as a principal residence. If there are two or more buyers, only one of them must be a Prince George’s County classroom teacher and occupy the property to be eligible.
If you happen to also be a first-time buyer in Maryland, your share of the .5% state transfer tax will also be waived.
Your savings could add up to $1000 or more in reduced closing costs for the purchase of a home in Prince George’s County, depending on the terms of your sales contract.
There are many nice neighborhoods in Bowie, College Park, Laurel and other nearby areas of Prince George’s County that fit the budget of county teachers.
Let me help you find them!
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Santa Claus is Coming To Town Tonight!
November 28th, 2011 Categories: Crofton Events
Look for Santa to arrive at Crofton Country Club tonight, November 28, riding atop a firetruck. After Santa lights the Christmas Tree, everyone is invited to join him into the clubhouse for a community Christmas party. There will be refreshments, music and a chance for kids to sit on Santa’s lap to tell him personally what they want for Christmas.
This holiday celebration has been an annual tradition in Crofton for as long as I can remember. We participated with our own children and, in recent years, we have taken our grandchildren to the celebration. The weather today is much warmer than usual for this event, and I’m looking forward to NOT freezing tonight!
Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m., and Santa is expected at 7:00. Be sure to bring your camera!
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Crofton Home Sales Steady
November 21st, 2011 Categories: Market Updates
Home sales remained relatively stable in Crofton, Maryland, between September and October. That’s good news in a real estate market that has seen a lot of bouncing up and down over the past year.
The inventory of homes didn’t go down, however, because new SALE signs in Crofton seem to be as plentiful as autumn leaves. You can see for yourself from this graph (on the right), the number of new listings has been creeping up. On the flip side, the number of new listings (29) is down 14.71% compared to October 2010 (34).
For a comprehensive view of the market, we have to compare last month’s real estate statistics with those of the previous month (MoM) and compare it with the same month in the previous year (YoY):
- 17 Closed sales: No change MoM, but down 17% YoY
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$287,500 Median sold price: Up 6.48% MoM, but down 3.35% YoY $311,988 Average sold price: Up 4.87% MoM, but down 4.65% YoY - 78 Days on Market: Down
29.09% MoM, and down 56.18% YoY - 94.63% Sold Price vs. Original List Price: Up
2.55% MoM, and up 3.52% YoY Overall, I think this is a good report, since sales improved in every category over the previous month and improved over last year in the last two categories. Not only that, but the median and sold prices dropped less than 5% from last year – not nearly as dramatic as the changes we’ve seen at times over the past 2–3 years.
If your home is currently on the market, you will probably experience a drop of showings through December due to the holiday season. I’m optimistic about 2012, however, since there’s a lot of pent-up demand. I believe people are tired of waiting for things to “get better” and they’re ready to take advantage of the great interest rates we have now.
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