Talking about the Charlottesville Real Estate Market on WINA today
Tune in to Coy Barefoot's Charlottesville - Right Now! program today on 1070 am at 5pm to hear a brief discussion about the Charlottesville real estate market, where we are, where we may be going, and where the market has come from. Better yet, WINA…
View from the Top of the Gleason Building in Downtown Charlottesville
I just wish it had been a less gray morning when I was on the roof of the Gleason for a home inspection. Either way, it's a nice view.
Crozet Struggles With Growth – Now a Lack of Implementation of Promises
The Road to Somewhere (Nowhere?) raises questions, as do rumored roads.
Charlottesville is a Leader in Biotech
Who knew? The greater Charlottesville region is home to more than 17 percent of the state's biotech companies, based on information from the Virginia Bioscience Directory. It contains more than 20 percent of the state's bioscience equipment companies, nearly 18 percent of its medical device…
Cities Are Greener than the Suburbs. Apparently.
City dwellers have smaller carbon footprints, walk more and are generally better for the environment. So says Ed Glaeser in the Freakonomics podcast. The higher price of urban space means that people are living in smaller homes, even with the same family size. And that…
Monday Links – 14 March 2011
- CHO (Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport) announces direct flights to Chicago! Dear National Association of Realtors: I hereby volunteer to serve again. :) - How 20-somethings (and really, most of my buyer clients) approach the home-buying process. - In Heart and Mind, not brand, I apparently am…
Albemarle May Have a Higher Tax Rate
From the DP: Snow told supervisors this morning that he's willing to support a tax rate of 75.2 cents per $100 of assessed value, up from the 2010 rate of 74.2 cents. Supervisor Dennis S. Rooker, an independent, proposed the rate increase to provide funding…
Question Everything – Especially Real Estate Reporting (Friday Chart)
“Last month the CAAR had about 2,900 homes on the market, only 95 of them sold." When I saw that number, my first thought was "What? That's awful. I need to double check that." From CAAR's page: Try as I might, I couldn't replicate these…
5 Ways Trader Joe’s is Going to be Good (or bad) for Charlottesville
Responding to a discussion on facebook in Cville Food's stream* in which the question was asked, "is Trader Joe's going to be good for Charlottesville?" As with most questions that pertain to real estate estate, the answer to the question is usually, "it depends." 1…
Trader Joe’s is Coming to Charlottesville! (Maybe)
Maybe. Trader Joe's may be coming to the Shops at Stonefield (formerly Albemarle Place). Of course, in December 2005 I wrote "Albemarle Place ... is almost upon us." ... "Almost" is a relative term. From the press release: (bolding mine) Located at the intersection of…