Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common buying & selling questions
Buying
Whether you're buying your first home, dream home, or an investment property, Christine Cahoon and her team provide personalized support. They help you start your home search with access to listings, neighborhood demographics, school ratings, and walk scores. You can save favorites, get listing alerts, and schedule home tours. The team also assists with making offers and guides you through inspections, appraisals, and closing to ensure a smooth, stress-free experience.
Start by making a wish list of your home preferences and set a budget. The Cahoon Real Estate Team can help you choose a lender to get pre-approved for a loan. Pre-approval involves a lender reviewing your income, assets, debts, and credit to determine your loan eligibility, which strengthens your offer when you find a home.
By saving a search on the Cahoon Real Estate website, any new listings that meet your wish list criteria are sent directly to your inbox as soon as they become available. This keeps you informed and ahead in the competitive Virginia Beach market.
Once you find a home you love, Christine Cahoon helps you prepare and submit an offer, leveraging her negotiation skills to get the best deal. After acceptance, she guides you through inspections, appraisals, and closing steps, ensuring a smooth transaction. Buyers pay no commission as the team is compensated by sellers.
The Cahoon Real Estate website offers a user-friendly home search tool that lets you browse listings anywhere. It also provides valuable data such as school ratings, walkability scores, and neighborhood information to help you make an informed decision about where to buy.
Selling
Pricing your home correctly is crucial. The team analyzes up-to-date MLS data, selecting comparable active, pending, and sold properties to determine the optimal listing price. This data-driven approach, combined with market expertise, ensures your home is competitively priced to attract buyers and sell within your desired timeframe.
To make your listing stand out, Cahoon Real Estate provides high-quality photos, 3D walkthroughs, virtual tours, and videos. They target buyers where they search online—on the website, home portals, search engines, and social media. This comprehensive marketing approach maximizes exposure and attracts qualified buyers quickly.
Christine Cahoon believes in keeping sellers fully informed. You get access to Brivity, an online marketing and transaction management tool that provides real-time updates on your listing’s activity. This transparency ensures you’re never left wondering about progress and can relax knowing every detail is managed.
Choosing Cahoon Real Estate means working with an agent who understands the local market and uses the latest technology and strategies. Christine Cahoon tailors marketing to where buyers are looking, provides professional listing presentations, and maintains constant communication, ensuring a smooth and successful sale.
You can visit the Cahoon Real Estate website and use their instant home value feature to get a quick estimate of your home's current market value. This tool uses recent comparable sales and market data to provide an accurate starting point for pricing discussions.
Financing
The home loan process can be overwhelming, but the team helps you stay informed and comfortable. They recommend consulting mortgage specialists and can introduce you to reputable local lenders. From getting pre-approved, completing the application, processing, underwriting, to closing, Cahoon Real Estate supports you throughout to ensure a smooth financing experience.
To get pre-approved, lenders typically request documentation such as recent pay stubs, W-2 forms, federal tax returns, bank statements, and a credit report. This information helps them assess your financial situation and determine how much house you can afford, preparing you for a confident home search.
Christine Cahoon works with trusted mortgage specialists who offer a variety of loan programs. She can introduce you to lenders who provide competitive rates and terms that best fit your financial situation, helping you secure the best possible financing for your new home.
Once your loan application is live, it moves to processing where the lender reviews your documents and orders necessary appraisals and title examinations. Then an underwriter evaluates the entire loan package for compliance and approves it if all criteria are met. You may be asked for additional documents during this phase.
Closing involves signing all necessary paperwork to finalize the loan and transfer ownership. You’ll pay any remaining costs, set up homeowners insurance, and once the loan is recorded, you receive the keys to your new home. Cahoon Real Estate supports you through this final step to ensure everything goes smoothly.
Local Market & Listings
Cahoon Real Estate showcases diverse property types such as remodeled ranch homes in Hampton, waterfront homes in Chesapeake, townhouses near Chesapeake Bay, and luxury listings. These properties often include modern updates, spacious layouts, and desirable locations close to military bases, shopping, and beaches.
The home search tool on the Cahoon Real Estate website lets you customize searches by various criteria including neighborhood, price range, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage, lot size, year built, and property type. This helps you find homes that best match your preferences in Virginia Beach and nearby areas.
To help buyers get a comprehensive view of properties, Cahoon Real Estate ensures listings feature high-impact photos, virtual tours, and 3D walkthroughs. These tools allow you to explore homes online before scheduling in-person visits, making your search more efficient.
Cahoon Real Estate promotes select featured listings that represent some of the best homes available. These listings receive special marketing attention and are often highlighted on the website to attract serious buyers looking for quality properties in Virginia Beach and surrounding communities.
Contact & Support
Christine Cahoon, CEO of The Cahoon Real Estate Team, is available to help with buying or selling homes in Virginia Beach. Contact her directly by phone at 757-544-4336 or email chris@cahoonrealestate.com to discuss your real estate needs or schedule a consultation.
The Cahoon Real Estate website provides options to schedule consultations to discuss buying or selling plans, as well as to arrange private tours of homes you are interested in. Simply reach out through the site or contact Christine Cahoon directly to set up appointments.
The team offers a free mobile app that lets you search for homes, save favorites, and receive alerts directly on your phone or tablet. This app makes it easy to stay updated on new listings and manage your home search on the go.
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