Virginia · Maryland · Washington DC
I help people buy and sell homes across Northern Virginia. Most of the job is making a complicated process simple. Start wherever you are.
John Pham · The Topaz Group at Spring Hill Real Estate · Licensed in VA, MD & DC
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First home or fifth. Real MLS alerts, honest opinions on every house, and no pressure to move before you're ready.
How it works →02
What your home is actually worth, built from closed sales rather than an algorithm's guess at it.
Get your range →03
The homebuyer's guide. Sixteen pages on what actually happens, in the order it happens. No form in front of it.
Open the guide →$10.7M
Closed in 2025, after $10.6M in 2024
Rising Star
NOVA Real Producers, 2025
RENE certified
Real estate negotiation expert
Don't take my word for it
Excerpts. Every one of them is at the links below, in full.
What working together looks like
Most of what agents promise is impossible to check. These four are specific enough that you'll know within a few weeks whether I meant them.
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Not just the light in the kitchen. The grading that sends water toward the foundation, the HVAC that's fifteen years old, the addition that doesn't look permitted. You'll hear it while you can still walk away.
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Sometimes the honest answer is that you should wait six months, pay down a card, or keep renting while you save. You'll get that answer even when it costs me the deal.
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This industry runs on jargon and most of it is unnecessary. If I explain something and it doesn't land, that's my failure, not yours. Ask me again. Ask me four times.
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Some agents win your business and then pass you to a junior member. You'll have my number and I'm the one who picks up. That's a limit on how many clients I take, which is the point.
Neighborhoods
Written for the people who live there. What's happening this week, what sold, and the rules and paperwork nobody explains when you move in.
About
I spent four years as a systems engineer before moving into real estate full time in 2019. I liked the work, but nothing in IT comes close to handing a buyer the keys to their first home, or walking a seller to the closing table with a result they're proud of. You don't get that from behind a desk.
I've been a member of NVAR's Top Producers Club ever since. Along the way I started The Topaz Group, so I could build a practice small enough that every client works with me directly, from the first call to settlement.
Most of the job is teaching. I walk you through each step as you get to it, so you always know what's happening and what comes next. I do the same on Instagram, breaking down how the market here actually works and what it means if you're buying or selling.
Outside of work I stay active with golf, basketball, flag football, pickleball, and snowboarding in the winter.
RENE certified negotiation expert · Licensed in Virginia, Maryland and DC
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. You won't get dropped into an automated email sequence or handed to somebody else, and if it's the kind of question that's easier on the phone, I'll say so rather than typing four paragraphs.
Or if you'd rather just talk: (717) 829-8314
