HomeBuyers

Why Buy With Cathy

Looking to purchase a home or investment property? Search for your ideal property by viewing current listings, exploring preset searches and saving a search to get the most up-to-date alerts.

Better yet, contact Cathy to set up a personalized buyer consultation. As your buyer’s agent she will do much more than just open the door — she will guide you through the process from start to finish.

Cathy Poungmalai, Northern Virginia buyer's agent
Real estate agent showing a new home to a couple

Reasons To Buy With Cathy

Cathy has worked the Northern Virginia market for more than 25 years and studies homes and prices every day, so you get honest advice on value before you make an offer.

Cathy takes a proactive approach, reaching out to her extensive network to find homes that may not even be on the market yet.

When you find the right home, Cathy builds an offer strategy around price, terms and timing, and negotiates on your behalf.

From day one you can expect quick responses, clear explanations and straight answers at every step of your purchase.

Whether you are upsizing, downsizing, investing or relocating to Northern Virginia, Cathy can help you find your new home.

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Step 1 Get Pre-Approved

Before you tour homes, meet with a lender to understand your budget and get a pre-approval letter. It shows sellers you are ready and helps you move quickly when the right home comes along.

Northern Virginia home staged by Cathy Poungmalai

Step 2 Define Your Search

Talk with Cathy about the neighborhoods, commute, schools and features that matter most to you. Save a search on this site to get an alert as soon as new listings match.

Northern Virginia home staged by Cathy Poungmalai

Step 3 Tour Homes

Cathy schedules showings, points out what to look for in each home and helps you compare it with recent sales nearby, so you know what a fair price looks like.

Northern Virginia home staged by Cathy Poungmalai

Step 4 Make an Offer

When you find the one, Cathy prepares a winning offer strategy — price, terms and contingencies — and negotiates on your behalf to get the best result.

Northern Virginia home staged by Cathy Poungmalai

Step 5 Inspection to Closing

After your offer is accepted, Cathy keeps every step on track — inspection, appraisal, financing and the final walk-through — until you have the keys.

Testimonials

The CallCathy team helped our clients sell their townhouse in 6 days for $27.5K above the list price! He was a bit weary about the commissions, but after the amazing sale said that "you get the full [...]

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After viewing the successful sale of their neighbor's property, this couple decided to sell with CallCathy.com and sold their townhouse for $19K above the list price in 6 days!  

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After a failed attempt to sell with another agent, the CallCathy team helped them sell in just 10 days! The property appeared nicer with complimentary home staging and had multiple offers after the [...]

2026-10-22 16:21:11

HIGHEST SALE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD! Sold $110K above list price in 5 days!  Being a past relator, Jim thought that he could sell the property himself, but at the end of the sale he realized that he [...]

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First time home buyers that found their dream home! 

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HIGHEST SALE IN NEIGHBORHOOD! Sold $336K higher than any sale in neighborhood!  After a failed attempt trying to sell with a previous agent, our client was bale to sell their home with CallCathy.com [...]

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Cathy led me through both the sale of my current home and purchase of my future home - and I could not be happier! At times, I was a bucket of nerves, and Cathy and her team helped me regain my calm [...]

2026-10-22 16:21:11

We interviewed A LOT of real estate agents over a period of almost a year but when we met Cathy, she had a wealth of knowledge, had strong arguments about why we should choose her, and we decided to [...]

2026-10-22 16:21:11

We found Cathy after previously listing unsuccessfully our townhome with our property manager. We quickly realized that the expertise that Cathy brings to selling a property and the resources and [...]

2026-10-22 16:21:11

Cathy and staff are the best realty company that I have ever worked with. They’re professionalism and expertise far surpass any other company that I have worked with in my 30+ years of buying and [...]

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