Your Mortgage Payoff at a Richmond Closing: The Payoff Letter, Per Diem Interest and Why the Number Moves

Your payoff letter, not your monthly statement, sets what your lender takes at closing. How per diem interest works on a $300,000 loan, what fees…

What Virginia’s Grantor Tax and Recordation Fees Cost a Richmond Seller at Closing

The grantor tax is $1 per $1,000 of sale price and Virginia law puts it on the seller. What that comes to on an August…

Selling a Parent’s Richmond Home When They Move Into Care: Power of Attorney, Timing and the Paperwork

What a Virginia durable power of attorney must say to convey real estate, how it gets recorded, how an agent differs from a court appointed…

Selling a Richmond Home Held in a Trust: Who Has Authority and What the Title Company Will Ask For

Revocable or irrevocable, who the successor trustee is, when that authority begins, what a Virginia title company can demand under the certification of trust statute,…

Selling a Richmond-Area Home in a Divorce: Who Signs, Who Gets Paid and How the Timing Works

Who has to sign the listing agreement and the deed when a Richmond-area couple sells during a divorce, how the settlement agent is allowed to…

Pre-Listing Inspections in Richmond: What They Cost, What They Change and When to Skip One

What a pre-listing inspection covers, how Virginia's buyer-beware disclosure law treats defects you know about, and when Richmond-area sellers should skip one, using August 2026…

Seller Financing in Virginia: When It Makes Sense and What the Contract Has to Say

Seller financing in Virginia, done properly: purchase-money deed of trust versus land contract, what the note and deed of trust must contain, the due-on-sale trap,…

What a Roof’s Age Does to a Richmond Sale: Insurance, Financing and Negotiation

An aging roof changes what an insurer will write, what an FHA or VA appraiser will require, and what a buyer asks for after the…

How to Choose an Agent to Sell Your Bon Air Home: Who to Interview and What to Compare (September 2026)

Mission Realty compares four firms a Bon Air seller could hire, including itself, using only what each firm publishes on its own website.

When to Cut the Price on a Richmond Listing, and by How Much

Days on market across the Richmond metro rose year over year in August 2026. How to tell whether your listing is slow or simply priced…