The Rivanna Station Military Base – is it reasonable to expect them to hire locally (archived: 2007)?
Rising Gas prices – from the New York Times. $3 gas is going to impact the real estate community in various, far-reaching ways – more demand for public transportation (no longer available), denser development, telecommuting, possibly higher commissions … last year gas was about eighty cents cheaper. Demand has been relatively inelastic so far …
My favorite post at the CVillain (archived: 2007) – It’s about beer.
Foreign National Buyers could provide support to the housing market. Charlottesville has always been a fairly cosmopolitan area attracting people from all over the world. I wonder what the dollar’s impact will be here.
City Council may feel our pain (archived: 2007). The Real estate bloggers have had a couple of quality posts lately on this subject. Here (archived: 2008) and here (archived: 2008).
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