Keep your perspective
Inman News - Real Estate News and Advice for Buyers, Sellers & Investors: Stop whining - Twenty five years ago this month, Bank of America's prime rate: April 3 20.00% (more…)
Bonefish Grill in Hollymead Town Center
The Bonefish Grill will be a welcome addition to the Central VA restaurant market. There are very few seafood restaurants in the area, and this one looks as if it may be worth the drive. We'll find out later this year. Fresh fish. Straight from…
CNN/Money: Top housing markets
CNN/Money: Top housing markets: U.S. residential real estate markets lost no steam in the first quarter of 2005, according to statistics released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) It is a bit refreshing that Charlottesville is not listed here. Not because we have…
Bigger Bids Aren’t Always Better Bids
Bigger Bids Aren't Always Better Bids: Bidding wars among would-be home buyers, once a rarity, seem to have become almost routine this frenzied spring. But even now, it's not all about money, money, money.What both buyers and sellers should understand is that the highest offer…
Another interesting commission article
RealEstateJournal | Agents and Brokers: A threatened lawsuit by the Justice Department is likely to boost the slowly developing business of selling homes at discounted commissions. More later on this ...
Buying in a “Boom Town”
RealEstateJournal | Sales Trends: Investors are helping to drive the hot housing market, according to a recent report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Though 9% of U.S. mortgages last year were taken out by investors, in some booming markets investors accounted for 19% of…
More on the pending NAR/DOJ suits
From the WP - Uncle Sam Buys Online Realty: The "issue boils down to whether a listing agent can effectively claim ownership rights to a home listing, deciding where and when it can be displayed on the Internet, for the duration of the listing contract,…
7 Harsh Truths
Seven Harsh Truths About Real Estate Don't want your housing foray to end in tears? My advice: Never forget these seven harsh truths. 1. A house is an undiversified bet on a single piece of property 2. Real estate doesn't always go up 3. Leverage…
What they don’t tell you …
Can matter much more than what they do. ... the convenient location and the amount of space for the dollar make the place worth a visit for people who want a solid, if unexciting, house with some ground around it and lots of little bedrooms…
Virginia’s getting tougher on sex offenders
Virginia's getting tougher on sex offenders: The Commonwealth can require a new Virginian who had to register as a sex offender in a different state to include his or her name on OUR registry. This is what I consider a "good thing."