As noted by the Washington Post, the D.C. area has more than a dozen major military bases, and because members of the armed services are some of the most itinerant people in the world - moving every two to four years, according to the paper - there's no shortage of house hunters along the Atlantic coast.
"Starting in March, April and early May, there's really a strong demand for military families transferring to the area," said Greg Wilson in an interview with the paper. Wilson is a retired Navy officer who owns a local real estate office. "They start looking online in March and are generally here in April and May to visit the houses in person for a July move, especially the spouses."
Military members may have already gotten a jump on the real estate market, as a recent report from RealEstate Business Intelligence found the D.C metro area showed the largest year-over-year increase in pending home sales in more than a decade last month.
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