Tag Archives: real-estate
Radio this Weekend – WNRN Sunday Morning Wakeup
We’ll be discussing year-end statistics about the Charlottesville region’s real estate market, prognostications for 2010, real estate and technology trends that consumers need to pay attention to and probably quite a bit more. … Maybe a little plug for Nest Realty – Charlottesville’s newest real estate brokerage If you’re going to buy a home in Charlottesville in 2010, when should you start looking? … ) ( now ) (Same if you’re looking to sell a home in Charlottesville ) … … (have you noticed the Meebo bar at the bottom? … I love doing radio for some of the same reasons I love writing this blog – one of the foremost reasons is that live radio forces me to prepare … Continue reading
Zillow Steps Beyond Free – Rental and Search
2 – When searching for homes for sale, you will be able to search by monthly payment – homes for sale and for rent. 3 – The spammy craigslist will see some real competition 4 – Eventually (I’d wager) Zillow is going to charge for everything they can. … Real estate blog roundup: Zillow starts charging for listings – 1000WattJoel Zillow adds Rental Listings – Charges for them – Tribus Zillow Adds Lease Search, Fills in a Critical Gap in the Their Offering – AG Zillow to Go Head to Head With Realtor.com, RPR & Your Wallet? – AgentGenius Announcing: Rental Listings and Search – ZillowBlog Zillow Adds Rentals – RCG My notes from the phone call yesterday are below. … In the Charlottesville Current market – a lot of homes are for sale or rent. Continue reading
Prepping to Buy a House in Charlottesville
Now is the time when people really start to talk about these things in earnest, so here is the thing: if you’re thinking about buying a house, it’s a great time to buy! … But if you’re thinking about buying in the Spring: – now is the time to start researching. – Drive through neighborhoods, see how they’re decorated if that interests you or if it disinterests you. It’s good to know what you might be getting yourself into. – Start scouting things out, ask questions, search for homes and find a realtor (I am one) and start looking for vacant houses so you have a feel for what you’re going to see come Spring when houses come on the market. – Prices now are starting to moderate even more. … Start interviewing buyers agents , ask questions, because when you’re talking about interviewing buyers agents , you’re really talking about spending a lot of time with somebody who is hopefully going to be someone you like, trust, and is a professional who is experienced. Continue reading
Electronic Signatures – Not Groundbreaking but Great all the Same
Here’s what happened: Rather than drive around Charlottesville meeting one buyer at work on the south side of town, the other buyer on the north side of town or both of them together after work at another location, I simply emailed them the contract, they clicked the places they needed to sign and initial and they were done.
…Legal recognition of electronic records, electronic signatures, and electronic contracts. (a) A record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form. (b) A contract may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation. (c) If a law requires a record to be in writing, an electronic record satisfies the law. (d) If a law requires a signature, or provides for certain consequences in the absence of a signature, an electronic signature satisfies the law. (2000, c.
…FHA does accept DocuSign today As the real estate industry’s leading provider of electronic contract execution, DocuSign has also sought to establish a clear distinction between an electronic mortgage – with process requirements and controls that must be in place at closing – and an electronically signed real estate contract, seeking appropriate treatment of electronically signed real estate contracts by lenders, the FHA, and other “downstream” recipients of these 100% valid and enforceable agreements. … Over the past five years, hundreds of thousands of real estate documents have been electronically signed by buyers and sellers using the DocuSign electronic contract execution platform, and not one of these transactions has failed for fraud or unenforceability arising from use of the electronic signature. Continue reading
UVA’s Construction Plans – Current and Near Future
I frequently tell my clients that at any given time, UVA has a couple hundred million dollars of construction underway. … Charlottesville Tomorrow reports : Pace Lochte, UVA’s director of economic development, said that a “miniature intelligence community” is developing around NGIC and the North Fork Research Park. … “This is the kind of development and economic improvement that every community in this country would just die to have it come into their community,” Sandridge added.
… Claude Moore Education Building– operational by May 2010 Bavarro Hall – complete by August 2010 First two buildings of the South Lawn Project operational by January 2010, rest in July 2010 Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center – operational by April 2011 Four new Alderman Road dorms to be built in two phases (2 in May 2011, 2 in June 2013) Information Technology and Communication Data Center – operational by May 2011 Bookstore expansion – operational by summer 2011 Rice Hall (engineering building) on Whitehead and Stadium Road – operational in August 2011 College of Arts and Sciences Research Building (currently unnamed) – operational by August 2011 Rehearsal space on Culbreth Road – operational by 2011 72-bed intensive care unit expansion at UVA Medical Center – complete by January 2012
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On Villages in Charlottesville and Albemarle
Charlottesville architect/developer Bill Atwood in Brandon Shulleeta’s story in today’s Daily Progress:
Atwood said that in the retail world, “the longer you can get people to stay, the better the pay. In other words, if you have somebody who’s actually going to stay and eat at dinner and actually walk around, you’ll be viable faster. … Having people live there is the ultimate.”
Atwood said that young residents are “more apt to want to be in town and places where you can socialize, buy a dog and buy a cup of coffee. … I think that the idea of
Charlottesville Real Estate Agent Update – Third Quarter 2009
Production matters.
How many clients do you represent every year?
But it’s just one of the many questions buyers or sellers should ask when they are interviewing their potential representation.
Questions to ask your agent in Charlottesville
Great Questions for Sellers to ask
I’m grateful (and work really hard) to be in the 10+ segment of the above chart. I firmly believe that if an agent is not doing at least 10 transactions a year, they’re likely not going to survive.
If they’re doing less than five transactions a year, they’re likely doing themselves, their profession and their clients a … Continue reading…
Translate RealCentralVA
Thanks to our overlords at Google, you can now translate RealCentralVA into any one of 51 languages. I have been working with a fair number of international buyers this year. While everyone so far has spoken English as well as if not better than native speakers of English, I thought this would be a great way to expand my reach.
Automatic translation is convenient and helps people get a quick gist of the page. However, it’s not a perfect substitute for the art of professional translation. Today happens to be International Translation Day, and we’d like to take the
