Western Bypass. Revived.
Read about it at the HooK. Make sure you check out where the bypass may go. I remain unconvinced that: 1) If we were to build a new road, this is the one to be built. Just because it's been talked about for so very…
Charlottesville MSA Median Prices 2000 through 2011
Bear with me ... I'm trying to make sense of the market. It seems that we're back (broadly) at 2004 - 2005 housing prices in Charlottesville. However, keep in mind that a single family home in the Meadowbrook Hills area of the City of Charlottesville…
Zillow’s Still not Accurate in Charlottesville
Zillow is still not accurate in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson, etc. And that's ok. But at least they are honest and transparent about it, and are telling everyone about their new algorithm. Kudos to them for being so transparent. Seriously. For now, if you're…
Seeking a Stable, Consistent Volume of Real Estate Transactions in Charlottesville
Part One of at least Two ... I look at too much data. I admit it. In this post, I'm posing just a question - when looking at the past ten years of real estate data** in the Charlottesville, Virginia area, what is a "normal"…
Impossible to Predict the Charlottesville Real Estate Market
If you have been reading RealCentralVA for a while, or we've talked in person you know that I have been saying for a while that we don't know what the market is doing and we don't know what we don't know. I was a bit…
Batesville Store is Closing
Virginia is not for small businesses. And it's a damn shame. I find it inexplicable and infuriating that, if everything that is reported is true - that Friday was the owners' first notice that they were in violation - then the State's choice to enforce…
Friday: What I’m Reading.
Coming on Monday - a comprehensive look at the first months' real estate sales in the Charlottesville MSA, (following up on this weeks' first look at the real estate market data) including median prices for attached and detached homes, Year over Year and 2011 versus…
What Does “Community” Mean to You?
In Charlottesville*, what does "Community" mean to you? It's walkable, it's connected, it's friendly, it's helpful, it's supportive, it allows individualism or collectivism, allows choice. (more…)
I Could Have Written this Today – We Don’t Know what We Don’t Know
"We Don't Know What We Don't Know" - from August 2009. And Government is still intervening and failing miserably, spectacularly and consistently. Come to think of it, the only consistency in the real estate market is that the government is consistency screwing things up. But…
Meadowcreek Parkway Opening (for bicyclists and pedestrians)
From Charlottesville Tomorrow: In other news, Huja announced that VDOT has agreed to open up the county's portion of the parkway to cyclists and pedestrians by the end of July. Another agreement between the city, county and VDOT prevents the road from opening to vehicular…