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Interest Rates, not home prices have the greatest impact on “affordability (no longer available)
Simple things to do to prepare your house for the market.
Homebuilders’ incentives – this is going to be a more common theme in 2006

Perhaps most interesting, “Ready for Everything under the Solar Panel” (thanks to Natural Home & Garden blog). I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – the segment of the market that caters to and specializes in sustainable/renewable/efficient energy and building is poised for significant growth.

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Houses 10 Miles from City Center?

Houses 10 Miles from City Center?

So what's out there? These links will die soon, so here's a dropbox link with results of the search. Looking for homes in Charlottesville and Albemarle With at least 2 bedrooms At least 2 bathrooms 10-ish miles from my office near Charlottesville's Downtown Mall Under…

Housing has Challengers Everywhere

Housing has Challengers Everywhere

A few thoughts as I'm in Portland this week for a quasi-real estate conference. I said on Twitter Had an interesting conversation with my Lyft driver this morning. Topics he raised: - unsustainable housing market - gentrification - rental properties - unsat infrastructure - rising…

Who (What Age) is Moving to the Charlottesville – Albemarle Area

Sometimes, asking a simple question yields a tremendous response. A few weeks ago I was in a meeting in which a speaker noted that builders were building new homes primarily for the 55+ community (not explicitly 55+ communities; that's a different thing). Builders are building…

Wegmans Finally Coming to Charlottesville

Wegmans will be pushing dirt in March. The plan will go the to Albemarle County Architectural Review Board (never a non-daunting task) on Monday, Chris Stover at the Newsplex reports. I've had clients tell me that they wanted to move to the south side of…

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Jim Duncan has been helping buyers and sellers in Charlottesville’s neighborhoods for 25 years. Get local insight born of experience.