Monthly Archives: March 2009
What Do You Want to Know?
) Looking at the baseline in January for Charlottesville and Albemarle , we will hopefully be able to get a feel for what the Charlottesville real estate market is doing.
Anecdotally, there are a lot of buyers in the market, but a lot of sellers are looking at being under water … we’re not yet out of the woods. Continue reading
Are Tweets Copyrightable?
Interesting question from Mark Cuban . Continue reading
Diverse Solutions Introduces Partnership with Walkscore
We love being able to put in an address Walk Score, but it makes it SO much better when you don’t have to constantly look up the Walk Score for each address for each property you’re interested in buying / leasing. 2. … Even if our clients choose not to show the “Search by Walk Score” search panel, they can still enable the functionality to allow their visitors to see the Walk Score for each listing in both the search results and property details. Continue reading
Hooray, Charlottesville is Number 11
I can’t tell whether Forbes means “Charlottesville (City of)” or “Charlottesville/Albemarle” … Either way, we’re number 11 in the “Best Small Places for Business and Careers” Continue reading
CAAR Economic Summit – Localized Market Data
I’ve spent the day at a Charlottesville Realtor Economic Summit, and the following was a very good presentation by Barry Merchant, the chief economist for the Virginia Housing Development Authority. More analysis will come later this evening, but I wanted to put this up in the meantime. Continue reading
Innovation, Emulation and Flattery
We expect to be copied – on our signs, on how we market, on how we work with clients – and that, in and of itself, is a good thing. … Heck, I and we copy other people as often as we can … first mover is cool, but sometimes the real skills are recognizing emerging trends and technologies and then having the gumption, wherewithal and ability to implement said trends and technologies. Continue reading
Growth and Development
This is why I read Dean Bruner’s blog (the Dean of UVA’s Darden School) : Of course, we shouldn’t blame the media, for growth is yesterday’s news. … Thus, even here at the depths of a recession, business practitioners (and even government officials) should study the attributes of growing companies and markets—and especially the attributes of those leaders who take enterprises through exceptional periods of growth. … Continue reading
Redefining Real Estate Signage in Charlottesville
One size does not fit all, and this is but one way that we are seeking to re-define how real estate is done in Charlottesville and Central Virginia. … – A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish – Describing Mariana and Derek’s signs in Colorado Springs – Describing John Kalinowski’s signs in Northeast Ohio . Continue reading
