Homes are selling in Charlottesville!
Believe it or not, houses are selling in the Charlottesville area. It may not feel like it due to the significant amount of inventory currently on the market. Between 1 September 2006 and yesterday, 27 January 2007, 1188 properties were listed in the MLS (*975…
An arbitrary Albemarle County bill
Um, who exactly would be determining this? Any such overlay zone may be established upon any area in the county where it is determined that the visual impacts of buildings and structures within such area may have a significant adverse impact upon the county’s scenic…
Albemarle County tax assessments rise (2007 edition)
Again. It's amazing what a simple press release will generate - The HooK and the Daily Progress were first to publish, but, here's the release anyway (full release below the "fold") The average annual increases for specific magisterial districts are as follows (biennial increases are…
Charlottesville area listing inventory numbers
Between the first of January 2006 to the 8th of January 2006, 225 properties were listed. For that same timeframe for this year, 132 residential properties have been listed.* There were 23 price changes in this timeframe in 2006 versus 60 price changes in 2007.…
Transportation in Virginia
If you live in or use the roads of Virginia and you're not paying attention to the potential remedies, or lack thereof, you need to be. To get you started: Republitarian Bacon's Rebellion (and here) Raising Kaine Charlottesville Tomorrow (and here) What would our area…
Charlottesville Realtor and Marketing Stats
Continuing my ongoing and inconsistent series on the perceived "agent bubble" ... Of the top-20 Realtors (based on # of transactions) in the Charlottesville market, only one is not involved with either condos or new construction. (#2 is "Non-MLS Agent) 413 have had at least…
Poll results
I'll take it. As of 17 December, 2006 - these are the results. 56% of all voters are either "Curious Consumer" or "Active Buyer or Seller." 39% of all voters are either "Real estate Professional" or "Related Real estate field" These results are better than…
Thursday links – 12-14-2006
More will be coming ... Condo project shifts to rentals (in DC) A rant against suburbia What do home sellers want? Fascinating and wide-ranging discussion on affordable housing at cvillenews. Charlottesville's dirty secret is out. (we have traffic - occasionally lots of it) HT: Waldo.
The best cell coverage
In the Charlottesville/Central Virginia is Alltel. I have also heard good things about nTelos. Someone at Slashdot said to ask me. Cell coverage is like real estate - it's local. Ask your local real estate agent. Someone commented asking a trucker for coverage, but usually…
Regarding markets
One of the best parts of blogging is receiving tips from readers. I read an awful lot every day, but typically if a story does not come through my feed reader, I don't see it. So, thank you for these two interesting stories. First up…