Will Accept Offers …
The Charlottesville real estate market continues to accelerate. As of around 3pm on this snow day, Sunday, 16 January 2022 47 non-new construction homes have been listed since 1 January. 16 of those are under contract. 48 resale homes have gone under contract since 1…
Stepping Back into Video – January 2022
What's old is new again. I did videos a decade ago. Now I'm doing them again. I'm older, video is higher definition, and the goal remains the same: share interesting and relevant information about the Charlottesville real estate market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1C25Qfr4vE Looking forward to 2022 Charlottesville…
Monthly Note Archives | December 2021 | Technology, lessons, two buyers and one house
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Two (New) Questions to Ask about Internet Service
I've written several times over the years about the importance of checking internet service availability when buyers are evaluating homes to purchase. A good conversation today spurred two new things for me to advice my buyer clients to ask: There's internet here, but what's the…
Zillow Out of iBuying – This Means little to Charlottesville Real Estate Consumers
Zillow are out the home buying business, while their current Zestimates are often more accurate than ever. Sometimes, the Zestimates are completely wrong. Right now, the human algorithm is more accurate than Zestimates. But for how long? Good for them for trying, failing relatively quickly,…
Predictions and Doors | Monthly Note Summary August 2021
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June 2021 Monthly Note | Spiteful Zestimates Discouraging Adrenaline
Spiteful Zestimates Discouraging Adrenaline | June 2021 Note from Jim Archives of my subscription-only monthly notes. This is for June 2021. Interested in not waiting a few weeks to read it, and want it straight to your email? Subscribe here. For the re-posts here on…
Insight into Charlottesville Area New Construction Prices
If you've been paying any attention at all, you've seen the news about dramatically increasing construction costs. For starters: Is there a housing bubble? Houses are getting more and more expensive. There's a simple fix for that. and Building a Home in the U.S. Has…
Matt’s Thoughts on the Charlottesville Lending Market
I've worked with Matt Hodges for years and recommend him unreservedly. He knows way more than I'll ever know, or care to know, about the lending side of real estate, so I asked him for some thoughts about the current Charlottesville lending world. Matt and…
Radio with Matt – Interest Rates, Inventory, Internet, COVID and Remote Work
Matt Hodges with Presidential Mortgage and I are on Rick Moore's show once or twice every year, and it's always a good conversation. These are some of the notes I took while we were doing the show live. Listen to the podcast at Charlottesville Podcasting…