Find out how much Gainesville Real Estate is worth

Once a changing point for stagecoach horses, Gainesville, Va., located about 40 minute drive from the nation's capitol, still offers a peaceful quality of life even as its rural landscape changes with growing business opportunities and the construction of new residential communities.

Green, open spaces still abound, making this neighborhood idea for people looking to be close to urban areas, but who prefer a more quiet life in larger homes. Gainesville is considered one of the area's – if not the nation's – fastest growing, most dynamic new homebuilding markets. It is a quiet, low crime neighborhood with excellent public schools.

Some 12,000 residents call this area home. Most are homeowners, who enjoy a rich historic and cultural life, with plenty of options for outdoor recreation, shopping, dinning, very rare instances of crime, and excellent public school education. A wealthy region, the average median income for a Gainesville household is $83,000, which is twice the national average.

Most real estate here was developed between the 1960s and 1980s, but Gainesville's real construction boom took place more recently, since the mid-1990s.

In January 2006, the average home in Gainesville sold for $586,297. The average home in the area is a single-family home of three or four bedrooms. Smaller and larger dwellings, ranging in price from as low as $245,000 and as high as $1.3 million, are also available, as are lots for custom construction.

Located in western Prince William County, Gainesville is just a few miles away from Manassas Battlefield Park, site of the Civil War's first battle. Originally located at the junction of the Manassas Gap Railroad and the Fauquier-Alexandria Turnpike, the town was once a changing point for stagecoach horses and is named after Thomas Gaines, the town's first postmaster.

Gainesville residents enjoy a stable local economy that is growing faster than the national average. Unemployment here is half that of other regions and future job growth is more than twice as high as in the average American community.

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