LeAnne & Company

LeAnne & Company Assisting buyers and sellers in Northern Virginia achieve their real estate goals. We serve each client with integrity, honesty and professionalism.

I'm LeAnne Anies, a Herndon local, licensed Virginia Realtor since 2005, OBX STR investor/property manager, and a 24-year Navy military spouse who knows what it means to find a home that truly fits your life. Investor and military friendly agent. 24 year Veteran Spouse.

Two Herndon kitchens. Same square footage, same builder, same year. One sold $23,000 higher.The winner? Dark gray cabine...
09/02/2026

Two Herndon kitchens. Same square footage, same builder, same year. One sold $23,000 higher.

The winner? Dark gray cabinets with brushed gold hardware. The other was classic white with polished chrome pulls.

I've walked hundreds of buyers through kitchens in Herndon, Reston, and Ashburn over the past few years, and here's what I keep seeing: the finish that photographs best online isn't always the finish that closes the deal in person. Dark cabinets are having a moment on Zillow scroll, but white cabinets still win with the widest pool of buyers when the light is wrong or the space is tight.

So the real question isn't which one is trendier. It's which one fits your kitchen, your light, and your timeline to sell.

If you're planning to list in the next 12-18 months, the answer changes. If you're staying five-plus years, it changes again.

So I'm curious. Dark gray with gold hardware, or crisp white with clean lines. Which kitchen wins for you? Drop your pick in the comments, I read every one.

And if you're weighing a renovation before selling in Herndon or anywhere in Northern Virginia, send me a message before you pick up a paint brush. I've watched sellers spend $18,000 on the wrong finish and get none of it back at closing. A 20-minute conversation can save you that.

I'm LeAnne Anies at leanneandcompany with the Fox Homes Team, a Herndon local and real estate agent helping people buy and sell across Northern Virginia.

Just Listed for rent in Ashburn: 43860 Artsmith Terrace, 20147 📍1.7 miles from the Silver Line Metro. For anyone weighin...
09/01/2026

Just Listed for rent in Ashburn: 43860 Artsmith Terrace, 20147 📍

1.7 miles from the Silver Line Metro. For anyone weighing a move along Northern Virginia's commuter corridor, that number carries real weight.

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths across 2 levels. Offered at $3,100/month.

Here's why this property works for the people I keep hearing from:

➡ Renters who want a genuine home along the Dulles Tech Corridor without buying at today's rates.

➡ Investors looking at Ashburn's Metro proximity as the factor that keeps a property leased year after year.

The commute is central here. Being under two miles from the Silver Line reshapes your morning routine, and it shapes how quickly a home like this leases.

If you're relocating to the Ashburn area, or you own nearby and want to talk through what Metro-close rentals are pulling right now, send me a message. I'll walk you through what I'm seeing on your street. 🔑

Six months after closing, a buyer called me from her Herndon kitchen almost in tears.She'd used a corporate relocation a...
08/31/2026

Six months after closing, a buyer called me from her Herndon kitchen almost in tears.

She'd used a corporate relocation agent when her company moved her from Dallas. Streamlined process, national network, everything handled. She bought in a neighborhood that looked great on paper.

Then reality set in. Her "20-minute commute to Tysons" was 60 minutes on the Toll Road at 7:45am. The elementary school she thought her kids were zoned for? Wrong side of Elden Street. And the cul-de-sac she loved sits in a pocket that hasn't kept pace with the rest of 20170 on resale.

Here's what most out-of-state buyers don't realize about the two agent paths into Northern Virginia:

A relocation agent delivers a corporate network, employer coordination, and a streamlined checklist. If your company is covering costs and you need the paperwork side handled cleanly, that structure is genuinely useful.

A local agent delivers the stuff that doesn't show up on paper. Which side of Herndon Parkway actually feeds Hutchison versus Dranesville. Why homes near the W&OD Trail hold value differently than ones a quarter-mile off it. Where the Silver Line commute math actually pencils out and where it falls apart at rush hour.

Neither is wrong. The right fit depends on what you're optimizing for and how much local context you're starting with.

The buyers who get burned are the ones who assume the two roles are interchangeable. They aren't.

If you're relocating to Herndon, Ashburn, or anywhere across Northern Virginia in the next few months, send me a message before you're under contract. I'm happy to work alongside a relocation agent your employer assigned, or walk you through the neighborhoods directly. Either way, you'll have someone in your corner who actually knows the streets.

I'm LeAnne Anies at LeAnne + Co. with the Fox Homes Team, a Herndon local and real estate agent helping people buy and sell across Northern Virginia. 🏡

I've packed up a household and moved across the country more than once as a military spouse. Some of those houses felt l...
08/28/2026

I've packed up a household and moved across the country more than once as a military spouse. Some of those houses felt like home by week two. Others never did, and it wasn't the paint colors that made the difference.

After landing in Herndon in 2002 and helping hundreds of families relocate here since, I keep coming back to the same three things buyers skip when they're in a hurry:

Your commute shapes your life more than your floor plan. Drive the route at 7am on a Tuesday before you fall for the kitchen.

The neighborhood outlasts the house. You can renovate a bathroom. You cannot renovate Elden Street, the walk to the W&OD, or who waves at you from the porch next door.

Flexibility is worth paying for. Jobs shift, families grow, parents move in. The homes that felt right five years later were the ones with a room we didn't know we'd need yet.

The buyers who feel most settled after a move are the ones who thought past the listing photos.

If you're relocating to Herndon or somewhere else in Northern Virginia in the next 6-12 months, send me a message. I've done this move myself, and I'd love to help you think through it before you're standing in an empty living room hoping you got it right.

I'm LeAnne Anies at leanneandcompany with the Fox Homes Team, a Herndon local and real estate agent helping people buy and sell across Northern Virginia.

A buyer told us last year she wanted "more space and a slower pace." She ended up in Loudoun. Her colleague wanted the e...
08/28/2026

A buyer told us last year she wanted "more space and a slower pace." She ended up in Loudoun. Her colleague wanted the exact same thing and ended up in Fairfax. Both were right.

That's the piece most NoVA buyers miss when they're stuck comparing the two counties on a spreadsheet. Loudoun and Fairfax aren't competing versions of the same place. They're genuinely different lifestyles, and the choice isn't about which is better. It's about which one actually matches how you want to live.

Loudoun runs a property tax rate of $0.805 per $100 of assessed value, which is meaningfully lower than what you'll pay one county east. Add in wine country weekends, Leesburg's 1758 historic core, and the kind of quiet that comes with more land between houses, and you're looking at a slower, more spread-out version of Northern Virginia. Great if you want acreage, a porch, and a Saturday that ends at Stone Tower.

Fairfax is the opposite trade. Silver Line access from Herndon and Reston, a tighter commute radius into DC and Tysons, and established neighborhoods where the trees are 40 years old and the school pyramids are already proven. You give up some square footage and pay a bit more in taxes, but you get walkability, transit, and a shorter drive to almost everything.

The buyer who chose Loudoun works from home four days a week and wanted room for a dog and a garden. Her colleague commutes into Tysons three days and wanted to be on the Silver Line. Same brief, different lives, two right answers.

If you've been going back and forth between the two and can't figure out why nothing feels quite right, that's usually the reason. You're comparing houses when you should be comparing weeks. What does a Tuesday look like? A Saturday? Where are you actually spending your time?

Send me a message if you want to talk it through. After nearly 20 years working both counties, I can help you narrow it down to the streets and neighborhoods that fit the life you're actually building.

I'm LeAnne Anies at leanneandcompany with the Fox Homes Team, a Herndon local and real estate agent helping people buy and sell across Northern Virginia.

She sat across from me twelve months ago and said, "I don't know anything about investing in real estate. I just know I ...
08/28/2026

She sat across from me twelve months ago and said, "I don't know anything about investing in real estate. I just know I want to own something."

Yesterday she signed the closing papers on her first investment property in Northern Virginia.

The look on her face when the keys hit her palm is the reason I do this work. Not excitement, not fireworks — just a quiet exhale. The kind that comes when something you weren't sure you could pull off actually lands.

We spent a full year before that closing table. Running numbers on rentals across Herndon and Chantilly. Walking properties that looked great on paper and didn't pencil out in person. Passing on two homes that felt close but weren't the right first move. She asked every question. She trusted the process even when the process meant waiting.

The truth is, first-time investors don't need a hot tip or an urgent push. They need someone willing to slow down, teach the math, and tell them when a deal isn't the one. The asset in her name today is the payoff for doing it the un-flashy way.

If you've been quietly wondering whether an investment property could be part of your next chapter, send me a message. We can start with a conversation, no pressure, no pitch. Just the numbers, the neighborhoods, and an honest read on where you actually stand.

I'm LeAnne Anies at leanneandcompany with the Fox Homes Team, a Herndon local and real estate agent helping people buy, sell, and invest across Northern Virginia.

Nearly 8 acres. No HOA. Room for a pool, ATV trails through the woods, and a childhood worth remembering.5119 Old Auburn...
08/22/2026

Nearly 8 acres. No HOA. Room for a pool, ATV trails through the woods, and a childhood worth remembering.

5119 Old Auburn Road sits on roughly 8 acres on the DC side of Warrenton, where the trees are yours, and the rules are your own. This is the kind of property where kids grow up outside, where the ATVs have somewhere to go, and where a summer afternoon means the backyard, not the calendar.

The land is the story here. But the house holds up its end.

Inside, a soaring great room opens to floor-to-ceiling windows that pull the outdoors in. Modern farmhouse design across three levels, including a finished walkout lower level with a bar, rec room, and full bath built for the way families actually gather.

🏡 5119 Old Auburn Road, Warrenton, VA 20187
🛏 6 bed / 6.5 bath
📐 8,083 sq ft on ~8 acres
💲 $1,650,000

You're minutes from Old Town Warrenton and close to Route 29 and I-66, so the space and freedom don't come at the cost of the commute. This is Northern Virginia room to breathe without giving up the drive.

If you or someone in your network is looking for acreage, an outdoor lifestyle, and a home built for a growing family, send me a message, and I'd love to walk you through it. 🔑

Photos are virtually staged.

🏡 Two recent closings. Two families settled into their next chapter.📍 26867 Barnsley Ct, Chantilly📍 9826 Burke Pond Ln, ...
08/21/2026

🏡 Two recent closings. Two families settled into their next chapter.

📍 26867 Barnsley Ct, Chantilly
📍 9826 Burke Pond Ln, Burke

Different neighborhoods, different price points, different sets of buyers to reach. What they had in common was a plan built for the specific street, not a generic playbook.

That's the part that doesn't show up in the closing photo. Knowing how Marbury Estates buyers shop is a different thing than knowing what moves a home in Burke. Both took local reads we've spent nearly 20 years building across Northern Virginia.

Two families, two neighborhoods, two closings. Both done right.

If you own a home somewhere in Northern Virginia and you're starting to wonder what your number looks like, that's the conversation we want to have. Send us a message and we'll bring the comps that actually apply to your street. 📍

Thousands of new residents are moving to Herndon. And the biggest winners might surprise you.The story most people are c...
08/18/2026

Thousands of new residents are moving to Herndon. And the biggest winners might surprise you.

The story most people are chasing is the construction. Vacant office buildings are being converted into housing all over town.

A seven-story, 525-unit mixed-use project is underway at 575 Herndon Parkway. Boston Properties is replacing two vacant office buildings at Worldgate Drive with new residential. Rooney Properties is redeveloping the Van Buren Office Park at 250 Exchange Place into 400 apartments and 62 townhomes.

That's thousands of new neighbors headed here.

But here's the part that actually matters for homeowners: Mayor Keven LeBlanc has called Herndon "largely built out."

The established neighborhoods aren't going to grow outward. There's no more room for that.

So the streets you already live on don't get more common. They get more valuable.

In March 2026, the town launched the Herndon 2050 Comprehensive Plan, a long-range vision for land use and development, with early action focused on the Metro station area and downtown.

New residents, more demand, and a fixed supply of established single-family homes. I've watched this town shift for a long time, and I've never seen these pieces line up quite like this.

I've lived here since 2002 and sold 150+ homes in Herndon. I know which cul-de-sacs and streets hold value and why.

If you own a home in one of Herndon's established neighborhoods and you're wondering what all this means for your number, that's exactly the conversation I want to have.

Send me a message and I'll walk you through what I'm seeing on your street. 📍

Most homes this close to Old Town Warrenton do not come with 8 private acres. This one does. 👀Custom 6-bed, 6.5-bath hom...
08/08/2026

Most homes this close to Old Town Warrenton do not come with 8 private acres. This one does. 👀

Custom 6-bed, 6.5-bath home. 8,083 finished square feet. Zero HOA. A gourmet kitchen with a full Thor appliance suite, a primary suite with its own fireplace, and a finished lower level built for entertaining, all tucked away on nearly 8 flat, treed acres with ATV trails and privacy to spare.

Still just minutes from shopping, dining, and everything Old Town Warrenton has to offer.

Homes like this do not last. Full tour and details in the comments 👇

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