30% “Discounts” on Condos in Charlottesville
Maybe they got a bulk discount. Click here for a snapshot of five condos that were entered into the MLS yesterday as new listings and then marked as sold. Aside from the fact that this will screw up/skew the Days on Market data, click on…
NGIC Employees can choose Their Own Buyer Representation
From the Daily Progress on 5 June 2008 - Albemarle County and Charlottesville officials and representatives will make a trip to Northern Virginia to hold a town hall meeting for the 650 to 800 employees who will move to the county-based National Ground Intelligence Center.…
Buyers – Do your Due Diligence about School Districts
Call the local School Board office to confirm the school district in which you think the house you are buying is located. Muchto my chagrin - don't necessarily trust the information in MLS; often times Realtors will "clone" the last listing without verifying whether a…
Reader Question – Why No Western Bypass?
I've lived here two years, and I have yet to get a straight answer from anyone I ask on why the Western bypass has not been built. I understand there was an Eastern bypass discussed as well and that it died first. To see the…
Charlottesville Area Needs More Sports Fields
For soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and God knows what other sports use the fields. At one point last year when I was coaching soccer, before daylight savings time expanded the amount of daylight available, there were four teams practicing on one field - each got…
Where to Search for Rentals in Charlottesville
Courtesy of the C-Ville blog citing a newsletter from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors - All those home builders banking on selling houses to new National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) employees may be in for a rude awakening. An estimate from the Charlottesville Area…
Albemarle Place is Back on Track – Take Two
So says Brian McNeill in today's DP, and he covers most of the angles - water, infrastructure, proffers (I'd love to know what they're trying to re-negotiate). Albemarle Place is planned for 65 acres of vacant land near the 7-Eleven on Hydraulic Road. Once completed,…
Better to Beg Forgiveness Than Ask Permission
That seems to be the case in today's news concerning one component of the NGIC/Military Base expansion underway. Reports Charlottesville Tomorrow ... (bolding mine) Two weeks ago, Wood asked the County to allow him to change the layout of two four-story office buildings in the…
ACAC is Coming to Crozet
Specifically it is coming to Old Trail. This is huge news for Crozet. ACAC is awesome (yet expensive). First, a 24-hour Fitness, Harris Teeter is under construction ... Crozet is well on its way to becoming self-sufficient and not solely dependent on commuting to Charlottesville…
Charlottesville’s Bubble Bloggers – Part 2
Part 2 of the interview with the anonymous authors of Real Cville - Charlottesville's real estate bubble blog. Part 1 is here. What are your predictions for the market? When do you hope/expect the market to turn? Our answer to when a turn might take…