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        <Name>Alexandria Virginia Townhouses Sell Faster Than Condos or Single Family Homes</Name>
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        <Description>&lt;h2 style="MARGIN-TOP: 2px"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 4px 6px" height="128" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/8/0/3/1/ar121111419913089.jpg" width="120" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good news!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are trying to &lt;a href="http://brianblock.com/sellers_page.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;sell your home in Alexandria&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;strong&gt; the market is picking up.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; Homes are selling faster each month.&amp;nbsp; Not lightning fast like 2004 when a sign post went up and the home was sold, but at an ever-increasing speed since the beginning of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alexandria, VA Home Sales -- Average Days on Market&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;January 2008 -- 108 Days&lt;br /&gt;Feburary 2008 - 109 Days&lt;br /&gt;March 2008 --&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 86 Days&lt;br /&gt;April 2008 --&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 84 Days&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Home that have sold in the last 30 days from April 18th until today were on the market an average of 59 days.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you've been reading my blog, you'll recall that I informed you that now (the Spring &amp;amp; Summer) is the time to sell:&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/411538/Gentlemen-and-ladies-start" rel="bookmark"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;Gentlemen (and ladies), start your engines: It's time to sell!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the race to sell quickly, &lt;strong&gt;townhouses are the champions&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Consider the chart below:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Days on Market in Alexandria VA" height="302" alt="Days on Market in Alexandria VA" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/9/0/4/1/ar121111303314094.JPG" width="397" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's some stats for Alexandria sales in the last 30 days:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Single Family Homes:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;22 Sales&amp;nbsp; 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