Courtesy of the Free Enterprise Forum blog:
Fluvanna officials recently released the annual Development Activity Report, which covers 2009. It highlights, in this case, the lack of development activity in Fluvanna over the past year.
For example, residential building permits declined another 5 percent last year to 112, continuing the downward trend that began in 2001. Since that year, new residential building permits have dropped by just over 75 percent.
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One final, and telling, statistic from the report: the average new home price in 2009 was just $160,118, twenty-eight percent below the average price in 2007.
These are some of the homes for sale in Fluvanna County that have been built since 2009:
These are the homes that are for sale right now in Fluvanna in the Charlottesville MLS:
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