U.S. real estate affordability improves
Inman Real Estate News - U.S. real estate affordability improves (link requires paid subscription) Housing affordability conditions have improved for two consecutive quarters, keeping housing within reach for people in most of the country, the National Association of Realtors reported today. ... The index shows…
New stores announced for Hollymead Town Center
Other ventures making their initial foray into the local market are the pet-centric supermarket PetsMart, Chevy Chase Bank, and the restaurants Bonefish Grill, Sakura Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar and TGI Friday's. Familiar names expanding into the complex include Starbucks, Gamestop, Bubbles Salon and Spa,…
Lots of good stuff in C-Ville
C-Ville Weekly - Charlottesville's Best Weekly Newspaper: Over the past 30 years the RWSA has tried, unsuccessfully, to expand the local water supply, which currently provides Charlottesville and Albemarle about 13 million gallons of water per day (that figure does not include the Beaver Creek…
Lowes and Home Depot interior designers
RealEstateJournal | Home Improvement: When it comes to interior decorating, the big buzz is coming from an unlikely creative community -- designers whose nametags read Ikea, Lowe's, even Ace Hardware. Hoping to boost their share of the $196 billion home-remodeling industry, national chains are expanding…
Pending real estate sales gain momentum
Inman Real Estate News - Pending real estate sales gain momentum: An index that measures U.S. pending home sales dipped 0.3 percent from February to March but is up 1.7 percent since March 2004, the National Association of Realtors reported today. I wrote about this…
Owners Hold Off On Sales Of Homes
Owners Hold Off On Sales Of Homes: Traditionally, home ownership has been about trading up. People bought a starter house and lived there for a while. Then, as their families grew or their incomes rose, they moved to a bigger house or a tonier neighborhood.…
The Market.
Inman Real Estate News - Time to cash out or dive further into real estate?: (Link requires paid subscription) “Real estate is the perfect capital market scenario,” he said when I posed the “what's going on here” question to him. “Information is readily available via…
Gourmet Gas Stations
New York Post Online Edition: : While it's an unlikely culinary revolution, Slim Jims are making way for sushi as gas station convenience stores transform themselves with upscale eats and shed their image as junk food pit stops. It's an attempt by the industry to…
May Newsletter
I have just published my May Newsletter. Please email me if you would like a PDF copy.
Subdivisions Impose Social Divide
Subdivisions Impose Social Divide: It was not simply that thousands of houses came; it was how they came -- in such self-contained communities as Brambleton and Forest Manor, Forest Run and Belle Terra, all with their backs turned to the rambler. And Ivan, once the…