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Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List
Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fifth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor. Executives are listed in alphabetical order by industry. Below you will find links […]
Real Estate 2024: CHRIS CLEMENTE
Clemente is the son-in-law of NVR founder Dwight Schar, who is a co-owner of Comstock Holdings and Comstock Partners with Clemente. Founded in 1985, the privately held Comstock is among the mid-Atlantic’s largest developers of mixed-use and transit-oriented developments. Comstock’s 2023 revenue was $44.7 million, with a managed portfolio of 49 properties. It’s best known [&hellip[...]
Locked gears
When Gail Courville decided this year to move closer into the Richmond metro area from Serenity Farm, her 109-acre Goochland County estate, she faced a real estate market vastly changed from the last time she relocated, back in 2014. The interest rate on the nearly $900,000, 5,000-square-foot home she wanted to purchase in Henrico County […]
NoVa residents feel pressure to pay high rent, mortgages
A spring survey showed more than half of residents polled in the greater Washington, D.C., area are concerned with making rent or mortgage payments in 2023, highlighting the lack of affordable housing in the nation’s fourth largest metropolitan area. Fifty-two percent of D.C., Maryland and Virginia residents polled by Gallup and the nonprofit Greater Washington […]
Watch this space
To understand office vacancy rates in Northern Virginia, Art Greenberg, the Washington, D.C.-based vice chairman for tenant advisory firm Savills Inc., employs the turkey sandwich test. In short, he explains, today’s workers want an office building where they can walk a block or two and find a half-dozen places to get a turkey sandwich for […]
Real Estate 2024: GARY BOWMAN
Bowman Consulting Group, founded in 1995 as a five-person company, followed Bowman’s 15-year stint at Urban Engineering. The publicly traded engineering services firm has about 2,000 employees with 97 offices nationwide, nine of them in Virginia. In July, Bowman, who remains chairman and CEO, was succeeded as president by Michael Bruen, the firm’s former chief […]
Inventory grew in Va. housing market in July
Inventory grew for Virginia’s housing market in July, according to Virginia Realtors data released Aug. 21. At the end of July, there were 19,162 active listings in the state, which was 4,223 more listings than in July 2023 — a 28.3% increase. Of those listings, 12,439 came onto the market in July, a 13.6% increase […]
NoVa, Hampton Roads home sales rise in July
Home sales in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads rose year-over-year in July, while inventory as measured by active listings rose year-over-year and month-over-month for both. Both regions also saw median sales prices rise from the previous year but drop from June prices. Northern Virginia July home sales in Northern Virginia rose 13.5% from July 2023 […]
Four office buildings in Centreville sell for $39M
A portfolio composed of four office buildings in Centreville sold for $39.36 million, the buyer announced Monday. Located at 5860, 5870, 5875 and 5885 Trinity Parkway, the four buildings have almost 500,000 square feet of Class A commercial office space. Two six-story buildings, 5860 and 5870 Trinity Parkway, have nearly 152,000 square feet each. The […]
Former Northrop Grumman CEO’s mansion sells for $9.95M
Former Northrop Grumman Chairman and CEO Wes Bush and his wife, Natalie, sold their McLean mansion June 28 for $9.95 million, according to Fairfax County records. Steven A. Sigsbury, an attorney with the Cochran Law Group in Tysons, is listed as the buyer of 903 Turkey Run Road and Baldy’s Bait and Tackle Trust is […]
DataBank to add leased data center to Ashburn campus
DataBank, a Texas provider of data center, cloud, and interconnection services, has signed a lease on a data center currently under construction on Red Rum Drive in Ashburn by GI Partners, the California investment firm announced Thursday. Two other data center buildings are already located on Red Rum Drive. One is owned by DataBank and […]
NoVa, Hampton Roads home sales fall in June
Home sales in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads dropped year-over-year in June, as homes stayed on the market longer and median sales prices rose. Northern Virginia June home sales in Northern Virginia fell 13.8% from June 2023 and 12.2% from May, according to data released July 11 by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors. “This […]
