Church Hill, Weather Hill – Who’s Next?
Wade saw the writing on the wall and transitioned out of the new construction space in November of 2007. Then, it was Church Hill. Now possibly Weather Hill ... because of Hauser? It's not necessarily the construction, or the lack thereof ... it's the land.…
A Brief Hiatus on RealCentralVA
I'm going to try to take a break from blogging here for the next couple of days. It's been a long year, and I need to work on my beginning-of-the-year post, my upcoming four-year blogiversary post as well as a few deeper pieces I've been…
Good News Reported about Future of Charlottesville’s Real Estate Market
Good news. Really. Access to major air hubs with international connectivity will become increasingly relevant. While we do not believe that technology will make personal relationships obsolete, we do believe that video linkages and similar technologies will become ubiquitous. As a result, people will become…
End of The Year Market Report for Charlottesville Region
I don't want to write this. I really don't. This analysis is mostly un-fun to do. * And so it goes. Every day/week/month reveals that we are in uncharted waters. TARP funds - Paulson doesn't want ‘em … wait! yes he does , Auto Bailouts,…
Shared Workspace in Charlottesville
Daniel and the folks at Cloudbrain have proposed what I think is a brilliant idea that is probably being done elsewhere ... this would be perfect for Realtors who don't need the wasteful infrastructure provided by larger facilities, when all many of us need is…
Where Are the Walkable Neighborhoods in Charlottesville/Albemarle?
People want to be able to walk to stuff. My question for my readers is this - is your neighborhood walkable? Walkscore is a great resource, although it's data is not always 100% accurate. A new tool, optimalhomelocation.com (h/t Lifehacker) offers the potential to find…
UVA Match Day 2009 – March 19
To be fair, Match Day is March 19 for the entire country, not just UVA ... For those not familiar - What is Match Day? (and why should we care?) From UVA's site for medical residents: Thursday, March 19, 2009 is the big day. There…
Google Transit in Charlottesville
Read all about it at Charlottesville Tomorrow. Shame Google's Street View folks decided Charlottesville wasn't worthy.
Search Tool Down
My nifty new "search for homes" tool is down, but I expect it'll be fixed shortly. Update - all seems to be well now. Also, Diverse Solutions released all sorts of updates today. - A couple very useful changes we've also made to the front-end…
Charlottesville Tweetup Roundup
The 2nd Charlottesville Tweet Up was held last Friday at Rapture on the Downtown Mall and it was a blast - an excellent way to spend an hour or so on a Friday afternoon, meeting friends "IRL" - In Real Life - an often infrequent…