Northern Virginia real estate
That isn't a tagline, it's the business model. I don't buy leads. The only way I grow is by doing work good enough that people hand me the names of the people they care about. There is no other lever.
$10.7M
Closed in 2025
$10.6M
Closed in 2024
Rising Star
NOVA Real Producers, 2025
RENE
Certified negotiation expert
Start here
These are three different conversations and they need three different things from me. Pick the one that sounds like you.
You've been renting, the math is starting to bother you, and you don't fully know how any of this works yet. Most of my clients start here.
See how it works → 02The house got small, or the commute changed, or the kids did. You need to know what yours is worth before anything else makes sense.
Get your range → 03Not ready to talk to anyone. You want trash days, school calendars and what a neighborhood is actually like. No form, no pitch.
Open the guides →If you're buying
Most first-time buyers I meet are worried they'll look uninformed. Here's the whole sequence so you don't have to be.
Thirty minutes. What you're trying to do, what you're worried about, what your timeline actually looks like. No pressure to sign anything, and no obligation on either side.
Not a rough guess from a website. An actual pre-approval tells you your ceiling, your monthly payment, and what closing costs will run. Everything after this depends on it.
Fairfax is big and the school pyramids don't follow the town lines. We figure out which areas fit your number and your commute before we spend Saturdays looking at houses.
The job early on is elimination, not falling in love. I'll tell you what's wrong with a house as readily as what's right, including the things that cost money later.
Price is one of maybe six things that decide whether an offer wins. Terms, timelines and contingencies do the rest. This is the part I'm certified in and the part that earns my side of it.
Inspection, appraisal, financing, walkthrough, settlement. Roughly thirty days of deadlines where the main risk is somebody dropping a ball. Coming out of IT, this is the part I'm built for.
Zillow and Redfin pull from the MLS on a delay and their filters are blunt. I can set criteria they can't: a specific school pyramid, particular streets, an HOA fee ceiling, townhouse but not backing to a main road. And I see status changes when they happen.
Tell me what you're hunting for and I'll set it up by hand. No call required, and you can tell me to stop any time.
Or book a 30 minute callFree, no email required
Sixteen pages on what actually happens and in what order. Contingencies, what things cost, how appraisals work, what to ask for after an inspection, and the questions people are embarrassed to ask. Download it and read it on your own time.
Download the guide (PDF)If you're selling
Zillow runs an algorithm across public records. It doesn't know your kitchen was redone, that you back to trees, or what the last three comparable sales on your street actually closed at after concessions. I pull the real data and go through it by hand.
I'll email it within a couple of business days. No obligation, no drip campaign, and I'm the only person who sees what you send.
Don't take my word for it
Testimonials on an agent's own website are the ones they chose to publish. These are on third-party platforms, unfiltered.
Neighborhood guides
Trash days, pool passes, school calendars, which pyramid your street feeds. Free, no signup, and useful whether you ever call me or not.
Pool and courts, community room rates, trash days, who to actually call, the FCPS calendar, and what's changing with Skyview High School.
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About
I'm John Pham. I run The Topaz Group at Spring Hill Real Estate, and I live in McNair Farms in Herndon.
My parents came from Vietnam as refugees. I'm first generation, and we didn't have much growing up. That's most of why I ended up working with first-time buyers: I know what it is to sit across from something expensive and not want to look like you don't understand it.
I didn't start here. My first career was in IT, four years as a systems engineer on projects for Fortune 500 companies and Amazon. Stable, paid well, and I was quietly miserable. A mentor got me into my first few transactions and it clicked. Handing keys to a first-time buyer was something I was never going to get from behind a screen.
What carried over from that career is unglamorous and useful: I'm organized about deadlines and I read the contract properly. A transaction is thirty days of moving parts, and most of what goes wrong is somebody not tracking one.
The through-line from my first deal to now is that every client should feel like the only one I'm working with. That's what you'd be getting.
No pressure version
Plenty of people aren't ready to book thirty minutes with a realtor, and that's fair. Send the question instead. I answer these myself, usually same day, and there's no follow-up sequence waiting on the other side.
Or if you'd rather just talk: (717) 829-8314
