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Month: January 2010

ALBEMARLE

New Charlottesville MLS Market Reports

Our MLS, Solid Earth, has just released some new statistical reports. They're pretty darn great. Unfortunately, they are for the entire MLS - not just Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Lousia and Nelson. As far as I can tell - this is the Moving Median Price…

GENERAL REAL ESTATE

March 18 2010 – UVA Match Day

Match Day is March 18 2010. Every year, I do research into the Match Day process, and every year I find interesting blog post. This one is a particular favorite because of the insight one gains into the thought and process. We've been contemplating where…

SIDEBLOG

Light Blogging Next Week – I’ll be in New York

(click through for a brief video) I'm going to NYC next week for the Inman Connect conference. I'll be doing a session at the REBarcamp on Tuesday and sitting on a panel on Thursday. Importantly, we'll be discussing the RPR - the Realtors Property Resource,…

BLOGGING

Five Years of Real Estate Blogging

First, thank you for reading. I've learned more than I could have ever expected or hoped for. Thank you for your comments and emails over the years. I've been a Realtor for just over eight years, a real estate broker for nearly a month, and…

GROWTH

TDRs get another look?

It seems the Virginia Association of Realtors and Virginia Association of Counties have been hard at work on Transfer of Development Rights ... they've even developed a model ordinance (PDF). What is a TDR? From The NAR's Field Guide to Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs)…

SIDEBLOG

Twitter Week in Review

Reviewing my tweets from the past week ... because I want the content to live on my blog as well as Twitter's. They're my words, after all ... Don't make others' networks your sole - or primary - home online. http://www.copyblogger.com/are-you-someones-user-generated-content/ # I played with…

SIDEBLOG

Problem Fixed

Whew. After many days of searching for a solution to the display problem on my search for Charlottesville homes page, I finally deduced the problem - a conflicting plugin. So .... feel free to search for homes again. :) Needless to say, this issue caused…

EDUCATION

I’m an Associate Broker in Virginia. So What?

It's been just over eight years since I received my Commonwealth of Virginia real estate license. So now I'm an Associate Broker. No longer "just a Realtor" (and yes, brokers would look at me with disdain when I would say that I was not a…

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