NAR does good
With all the NAR-bashing of late, it's nice to see the NAR do something big and good. From Inman: The National Association of Realtors is donating $500,000 to assist victims of the Southern California wildfires and has called upon its members to contribute to its…
Square footage, Bankruptcies and Campaign funds
Learning to love the not-so-big house. It's not hard (and it's cheaper, too!) I'd love to get my hands on a copy of this "Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2008" (hat tip: Toronto Real Estate Intelligence) The art and science of figuring out square footage:…
A follow up on Cyberhomes/AOL
Take a look at AOL's For Sale by Owner page. One would think that a company seeking to revamp/redevelop/survive might shy away from tactics like keyword stuffing. Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical search engine optimization (SEO) technique. Keyword stuffing occurs when a…
November Referendum on Growth in Albemarle
Will Goldsmith with C-Ville has an excellent summary of next month's Albemarle County BoS election: In electoral terms, this is an off year, with no federal offices up for grabs. Typically, voter turnout is particularly low in Virginia during odd years like these, when there's…
Keeping it all in perspective
Take the 10 minutes to watch this video - Real estate can be an all-consuming experience. Setting limits is more crucial when one is self-employed, because frankly, if you're not working, you're not earning. And there are more important things in this life. On a…
The Carnival and the Odysseus medal come to Charlottesville
And Charlottesville was represented well. We might not be the epicenter of real estate blogging, but to win the Carnival of Real Estate and the Odysseus Medal in the same week - wow. Daniel's Carnival winning post on social media and mine on the Wharton…
Cyberhomes and Realtor.com
Cyberhomes has Realtor.com in their cross-hairs. For the real estate buyers/sellers/consumers in the Charlottesville area - which site has better, more useful data, and data display, for your house? Realtor.com has the current listing data: But Cyberhomes has more data, and is working on acquiring…
Marketing real estate internationally
My policy remains in place - blogging about properties I am marketing remains verboten - except for when there is a story other than "hey! Look at this house!" With that being said - here is a "first-to-market" for Charlottesville - This is a property…
Where did Albemarle Place’s site go?
It's gone. Much has been written about the massive development known as Albemarle Place over the last couple of years ... most recently the news that it will be delayed by at least a year. Where'd their site go?
Treehugger doesn’t like Charlottesville’s water conservation efforts
The region's drought has not gotten as bad as it was in 2002. In fact, restrictions have been loosened a little bit. From a post yesterday noting our efforts in 2002: Promote bottled water and use paper plates. While we applaud anyone taking up the…