Albemarle County Assessments are Online
My real estate assessment went up. By 1%. Yours? Check them out on the Albemarle County GIS site. I'm checking my clients' assessments now. Thanks to the Charlottesville Bubble Blog for the heads' up. Last year they were released, with a press release, on 28…
Friday Chart – Contracts in January
Might the Charlottesville real estate market be stabilizing? I'll let you know in 18 months. Looking at all residential properties in the Charlottesville MSA put under contract in the first 27 days of the year over the past ten years ...* Does 27 days lead to…
Terremark in Culpeper Sold to Verizon
This news seems more interesting in light of the Fiberlight news from earlier today. (bolding mine) From Data Center Knowledge: Verizon will acquire colocation and cloud hosting provider Terremark for $1.4 billion in a deal that will accelerate the telecom provider's push into cloud computing.…
Charlottesville Assessments are Coming! Assessments are Coming! (2011 version)
Real estate property assessments will be released in the forthcoming days and weeks. Real estate assessments are important. While I have long argued that they are often inconsistent with real market value, buyers look to them for guidance. Localities look to them for revenue, public…
More Fiber in Charlottesville – Fiberlight
Fiber internet is good, so I hear (I live in Crozet, so have heard only rumors) ... I wrote about FiberLight in August of 2010 about the prospect of more fiber coming to Charlottesville. Internet is the new infrastructure. This can only be good for…
VMI Alumni in Charlottesville – Happy Hour Next Tuesday
It's only taken a year for me to plan the first Charlottesville VMI Alumni event, and it's a simple one: Happy Hour. I picked a place between the Downtown Mall and 29 North - The Boathouse in Seminole Square. RSVP.
The Future of Charlottesville – Albemarle Transportation Looks Like …
Frankly, it looks like more of the same. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports on the Metropolitan Planning Organization's long range plan. While I'm cherry-picking quotes, I'd love to hear a counter-opinion. But members of the group's Policy Board seemed more concerned Wednesday with finding ways to fund…
Curious about Social Media and Real Estate (in Charlottesville)?
This is a pretty good conversation from WINA's Real Estate Matters last weekend.
See Charlottesville Differently Than Ever Before – Via Qwiki
Qwiki fascinates me, not only because it says "Monti-sello", and I've been playing with it for the past few weeks since it was in alpha. Now it's open to the public and I can embed it here (finally!). What do you think? Astonishingly, Qwiki picks…