Reston Neighborhood Guides
Reston was planned in the early 1960s by Robert E. Simon, and it was built as a set of villages rather than a single subdivision. Sixty years later that structure still governs almost everything about buying and selling here. These seven guides cover the mechanics first, then each village in turn. Read whichever ones matter to you. There is nothing to sign up for.
Planning a move
- Thinking About a Move from Reston, a checklist for deciding at your own pace
- Buying Your First Home in Reston and Northern Virginia, from the lender conversation to your first week
Read the seven guides
- 1. How Reston Actually Works, associations, design review, and the documents a sale requires
- 2. Lake Anne, the first village
- 3. Reston Town Center, the commercial core
- 4. Hunters Woods, south Reston
- 5. South Lakes, lakes Thoreau and Audubon
- 6. North Point, the last village, built around its paths
- 7. Tall Oaks and the Uplands, the village without a village center
