Inventory levels of housing in the Charlottesville Region
With guests like these ... "We've never seen inventory levels like this." "We need to fix affordability." Home sales are falling sharply, housing starts are falling sharply. "We have the biggest supply of excess homes in US history". "Inventory levels aren't going to clear out…
Buying and Selling Real Estate in Central Virginia
That's the title of Sunday's "The Wake-up Call with Rick Moore" on WNRN. One of the beauties of writing a real estate blog (or any blog, for that matter) is the ability to react, expand on conversations and provide context - in this case, yesterday's…
The Fall Newsletter
I am doing the The Fall Newsletter a little bit differently this quarter. Rather than write more content, I linked to a page on my website with the below stories from RealCentralVA.com over the past few weeks and months. Market Statistics for the Charlottesville Region…
Media appearance – WNRN this Sunday
Tune in at 1100 on Sunday morning to WNRN for a revisit of last year's show. Matt Hodges, a local lender, and I will be talking about the local real estate market, the subprime market, the "Credit Crunch," "Mortgage Meltdown" and any other nifty alliterations…
The HooK’s Green edition
C-Ville's been on the "green" bandwagon for some time now. The HooK steps up this week and has a special green pull-out in addition to their normal issue. The HooK's new site design makes it a bit more challenging for me to find their green…
Another reason blog “leads” are better
The differences between leads generated from blogs and "leads" purchased through one of the various blood-sucking non-value-adding referral companies are many. Some of the most crucial differences are that blog clients: 1) Are typically further along in the process of hiring an agent (whether buyer's…
Pulled from the comments of one of last week’s stories – Albemarle growth and appreciation
An excellent comment by JR Jackson last week: I really question the value of these median price metrics, since it's entirely possible that you're not looking at an apples-to-apples comparison. After a closer look at the VAR's July numbers, it seems that “median price” is…
Attention Charlottesville Realtors – market your property to international clients, too
Vidlisting.com will be coming to town to film properties for interested Realtors. One of the key features to this type of filming, in addition to the widescreen format, is that the voice-overs are done in English, Spanish and Portugese. Charlottesville attracts a fairly large international…
A foray into Albemarle politics
This should be fascinating, educational and overwhelming. The opportunity to participate in the discussion of growth in Albemarle County came about recently, and after a bit of deliberation I decided to take it. Better to exercise my voice and be part of the process. Mission…
Yet another reason to dislike Realtor.com
In order to serve my clients, I have to pay significant amounts of money to have more than one picture on Realtor.com. In order to publish my listing content on Realtor.com, which is supposed to be for the benefit of both Realtors and Move.com's shareholders…