Tanya Johnson

Thats right! On April 26th Loudoun County wants you to feel free to dump that hazardous waste off and get it out of your home to be properly disposed of. The county has a fabulous program dealing with household hazardous materials which I don't think many people know about. From March to November the county has monthly drop off locations at different areas through-out the county to make it convenient for people to dispose of anything the trash company won't take or shouldn't go into the county landfill.

This month's location is at Loudoun Valley High School 340 N. Maple Avenue, Purcellville Virginia between the hours of 8:30am and 2:30pm. For more information visit the county's website .

Not sure what is hazardous waste? Click here for a list of common household items .

Our mid-month housing market analysis for Loudoun County, Sterling VA, Ashburn VA and Leesburg VA shows signs of staying relatively flat from last month's numbers. To generate the numbers, we combined what has already sold as well as what is currently under contract with a closing date within April 2008

Loudoun County

Overall, the county will sell roughly 172 detached homes and 156 townhomes as compared to last month a total of 171 detached and 157 townhomes. The average sales price is currently lower than last month for detached homes and higher for townhomes. Lets see if the numbers change once the end of the month is here and all the sales have been entered.

Sterling / Potomac Falls (20165) Virginia

Sterling's numbers are currently 19 detached homes and 17 townhomes, which will be higher than the 10 detached and 15 townhomes that sold last month. Currently, the average sales price is lower than last month for both detached homes and townhomes.

Ashburn (20147) Virginia

Ashburn doesn't look like it will be able to keep up the improving trend since the beginning of the year. Each month since January 2008 for both detached and townhouses the number of homes sold has increased. Currently, it appears 17 detached homes and 32 townhouses will sell by the end of the month which is down slightly from 19 detached and 38 townhomes. The average sales price is a bit lower for detached and higher for townhouses.

Leesburg (20176) Virginia

The Leesburg detached home run up in activity looks like it will not be sustainable. Currently a total of 18 detached homes are set to settle in April, down from a high of 28 homes in March. The townhouse market in Leesburg is up a little to 27 townhomes to sell from 21 in March. The average sales price is looking higher than last month for townhomes but lower from detached.

The townhouse market in the 20147 zip code of Ashburn is getting exciting! The number of townhouses selling per month has been climbing since the bottom in December of 2007 with only 15 homes selling that month. In March, 2008, 36 townhomes sold as of 4/3/08. I would imagine a few more might trickle in as agents enter in sales for the last days of the month. It will be interesting to watch to see if the number of townhomes sold crosses the average sale price line. The average sale price for Ashburn townhouses has decreased much more aggressively than Sterling townhomes which might be the reason the sales activity has been higher. The Ashburn detached home market also improved over February's numbers for both units sold and average sales price.

Good news for the detached home market in the 20176 zip code of Leesburg if it can maintain the momentum. Detached home sales in this zip code are up 46% from February, 2008 to 28 homes sold in March. This is the most detached homes in this region to sell in one month since the credit crisis in August/September 2007. It will be interesting to see what happens in April. The average sales price for detached homes has been all over the place so not really any stability there. The beast of Leesburg is the inventory. There are 231 detached homes currently active and if 28 homes per month were to continue to sell than the inventory is only at 8.25 months. Unfortunately, the average number of detached homes to sell this year is 17 homes per month which means that there are 13.5 months of inventory. The townhouse market appears to continue it's decline. Both the number of townhomes sold as well as the average sales price dropped a little in March, 2008 from the prior month.