Charlottesville MSA Real Estate Market Update – August 2011 – How This Matters to You
Pending Contracts in the Charlottesville MSA are UP, year over year. But if you're looking to buy a home in the Charlottesville area or if you're trying to or thinking about selling, this number doesn't matter to you one bit. What matters is - what…
Fluvanna County’s Fiscal Pickle
When you're buying a house, do you consider the fiscal position of the locality? When representing buyers, I advise that they analyze the budget of the homeowner's association - to look at the debts, expected capital expenses, monthly fees - shouldn't you do the same…
Higher Loan Limits for the Charlottesville MSA
Guest post from Matt Hodges with Compass Home Loans: Every year in mid-late November, conforming loan limits are set for the next year. This year, our government gave us a bit of a surprise on the Freddie/Fannie limits and a very nice surprise on the…
The Toy Lift in Charlottesville
* It's a hard time to be a charity. (and there are quite a few charities in Charlottesville). If you can, please consider helping out. Toy Lift will be serving 3,098 children this year!"But ... this year is the 20th anniversary of the Toy Lift…
Charlottesville Area Market Update – June 2008
If a picture is truly worth a thousand words - This market update is a bit longer and more detailed than most of my previous market reports - there seems to be uncertainty right now and I'd like to do my part to answer as…
3rd Quarter Market report for Charlottesville area real estate market
What a difference a year makes. The Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors releases its Third Quarter Market report today. (The full PDF report is here) There were 2,875 homes sold in the first nine months of 2007, which was down 647 (-18.4%) from last year.…
Houses are selling!
Believe it or not, they are. Removing condos from the equation - In Charlottesville/Albemarle/Fluvanna/Greene: 141 properties sold in October 2006. 185 sold in October 2005. 196 in October 2004 and 194 in October 2003. Putting condos back in the mix, as they have become the…
Central Virginia development moves on
Biscuit Run, the proposed development to the south of the City has been revised downwards from a proposed 5,000 homes to 3,500 homes. The traffic study work session next month should be interesting. As always, Cvilletomorrow has much more information as well as a podcast…
Housing numbers are down
And inventory is up. Rates are low. Home price appreciation is slowing. Inventory is up. Significantly. note: as soon as I figure out how to upload an image via coding, rather than depending on my normal program, I will. Regarding NAR's press release: They have…
Market Data for July 2006
The past few months have seen some significant changes in our market. It's not just the interest rates, though - they've actually gone down a bit of late. I am running the numbers a little bit differently as well. *Active in July 2005: 456 Active…