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Category: Albemarle

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Cvillepedia – A Vast New Resource for Charlottesville and Albemarle

You've heard of Wikipedia, right? Now Charlottesville and Albemarle have a resource of similar (local) ambition and (local) scope - Cvillepedia, implemented by the fine folks at Charlottesville Tomorrow. cvillepedia is a wiki created by Charlottesville Tomorrow to document the history and explain the structure…

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What is RealCentralVA?

Thanks to Marijean and WCAV for the profile during their Blog of the Week segment. Know this - some of the most informative, educational and entertaining contributions to this blog are provided by the commenters, and for each and every one of them, I am…

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Re-Visiting Thursday’s Radio Appearance on WINA

Another packed hour with Coy Barefoot on Charlottesville Right-Now! last week - I love doing radio. The time always seems to fly by so fast - - The referenced discussion with Michael and Greg. - Search site is fixed (it was broken) - The Charlottesville…

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The National Geographic Likes Charlottesville

And their reporter found lots of my favorite spots, too. Restaurants, vineyards, breweries, dumplings on the Downtown Mall, ... it is rare that I read one of these reviews and agree with the author's findings, but this is one of those rarities. Charlottesville really can…

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First Quarter Market Report for Charlottesville and Albemarle

And the surrounding regions ... 1927 2411***. The number of properties currently on the market right now. 317. The number of properties that have sold through the MLS in Central Virginia. 36. The number of these properties that are marked as having been foreclosures. 529.…

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Buy Local

Editor's note: This is a post I have been sitting on for a few months now, but the HooK's story last week about Ryan Homes' market dominance  spurred me to publish. It is written by a local Realtor who works for a local builder. I have…

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Blog Wayback – Revisiting Some of My Favorite Posts

I've written a lot over the past four plus years, and a lot of my favorite posts deserve to be revisited. With that in mind, I am going to be posting stories I have written in the past. Every other Wednesday (until I get distracted…

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CAAR Economic Summit – Localized Market Data

I've spent the day at a Charlottesville Realtor Economic Summit, and the following was a very good presentation by Barry Merchant, the chief economist for the Virginia Housing Development Authority. More analysis will come later this evening, but I wanted to put this up in…

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Innovation, Emulation and Flattery

We expect to be copied - on our signs, on how we market, on how we work with clients - and that, in and of itself, is a good thing. Will others do it better? I'd like to think that no one else can do…

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