Real Estate Radio – WNRN on 20 January
If you're feeling like the past month of real estate data releases hasn't satiated your need for real estate information and analysis, you're invited to listen to Matt Hodges and me this Sunday morning at 11am on WNRN radio. Whenever we do this, it's a…
A Fourth Hotel is Coming to Charlottesville
Pretty soon, finding a hotel room in Charlottesville will be easy. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that another hotel is planned for Charlottesville - this one where the Regal 4 (also known as the one behind K-Mart, or the one behind the long-gone Terrace Triple). Keep in…
2012 is in the Past – Looking Forward at the 2013 Charlottesville Market
1 - Inventory is low - (good for sellers, not so good for buyers) 2 - Interest rates remain low 3 - Prices (in many market segments) have stopped dropping, and are largely increasing. 4 - Sales volume is up across the board 5 -…
2013 Charlottesville Real Estate Market – 6 Things to Watch
Note: this was published yesterday on C-Ville. The past few years in real estate have been brutal, fascinating, and educational. 2012 is behind us and the 2013 market is picking up in Charlottesville. There are a few things to pay attention to when you're looking…
Has That House Ever Been a Meth Lab?
If this bill in the General Assembly passes, home Sellers will have to disclose if a house has ever been used as a meth lab. What would be as good if not better would be would be if a database existed where the public could…
Quick Talk about the Charlottesville Real Estate Market last Weekend
Wendy Edwards was kind enough to have me on her weekend morning show on Saturday morning. It was a quick talk but covered quite a bit - looking back at 2012 and looking forward to 2013. Topics such as number of homes sold, current inventory,…
Another Call for Population Growth in Charlottesville and Albemarle
I'm still working my way through the new report produced by Advocates for a Sustainable Population (ASAP) in which they quantify the costs of growth (it's a lot) and describe how adequately growth pays for itself (it doesn't). Growth is expensive, and costly - environmental,…
Many Years of Blogging
January 4, 2005 I posted my first not-so-great-post here on RealCentralVA. So very much has changed since then that I can't begin to list the significant, insignificant and surprisingly significant shifts in the real estate writing space (I was one of the first and some…
Things I’m Watching in the (Macro) Real Estate Market for 2013
These are a few stories I'm reading/processing/mulling as 2013 begins. I'm working on the 2012 real estate market summary and 2013 real estate market predictions … coming soon.- 5 Types Of Buyers Will Be Rushing Into The Housing Market In 2013 (I don't think "rushing"…
Charlottesville – Albemarle a Great Place to Live
Alerted by a press release and filed under "for what it's worth:" Correction: Not just "a" best place, but "the" best place to live. (the press release links to the 2005 "Best Places" - I'm looking for the 2012 press release and data; in the…