Growth, Politics, Money, Development and Albemarle County
And a local land baron to boot. Very interesting conversation at Cvillenews centered around the Daily Progress' excellent piece on the possibility of a(nother) Wal-Mart on 29 North. As with most anything in this world, it seems that money talks. And Places 29 needs a…
Twitter Week in Review
Maybe it's time for UVa to renew its rivalry w/ VMI; it's liable to be competitive. #fb # Just got back and am watching the UVA tweets - http://search.twitter.com/search?q=UVA - apparently, UVA's football team isn't so great. # RT @morganb: RT @Jesse: Want an Unpaid…
What’s the Charlottesville Real Estate Market Going to do In 2010?
Let's ask Google: Home inspection peak due to the $8k Tax Credit?
Google Real Estate Trends
Google Trends for Finance ... this is for real estate. A few years ago I wrote a story titled What if Zillow is Right?. Replace "Zillow" with "Google". Yet I have been wondering – what if Zillow's reach becomes so great, their data become so…
Friday Chart – Home Vacancy Rate for Charlottesville MSA
Looking at the data a little bit differently: Charlottesville MSA for this post is comprised of Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson. Update 10 September 2009 ... I'm still working on this ... (w/ help from @wkdavis)
Feedback on Showing Homes – Video
I'm doing a video test ... Youtube: Viddler: 4 Ubertor: Transcription: Hey, it's Jim Duncan with Nest Realty and RealCentralVA.com here finishing up an afternoon of showing houses in Charlottesville, in western Albemarle County. A couple of thoughts after looking at a number of houses…
Nature, Children, Play and Neighborhoods
I learned a tremendous amount from listening to the discussion on Sunday's Wake-Up Call on WNRN as Kate and Rick discussed nature, interacting with nature, play, roaming, neighborhoods ... this post will be expanded with show notes when I make time to listen to it…
Charlottesville is Wine Country
Walla Walla Valley, Washington. Anderson Valley, California. Between Hermann and New Haven, Missouri. Charlottesville, Virginia*. Thanks, CNN. Virginia's premier wine country, dotted with working farms and over 1,000 acres of grape vines, spreads out around the city of Charlottesville in the foothills of the Blue…
Blog Wayback – Why Use a Realtor – Decoding NAR-Speak
Blog Wayback again ... From November 2007: Why Use a Realtor - decoding NAR-Speak Inspired by these two comments on the BHB, today I'm going to respond to/pick apart the National Association of Realtors' Why use a Realtor? page. I hope that few consumers had…
Blog Problems Today
I don't know what caused it, but RealCentralVA.com was mostly inaccessible today from about 0500-1400. It was either an attack on this site or my host or a mistake by by host, but either way it was extraordinarily frustrating. I think it's all over, but…