Where Are the Walkable Neighborhoods in Charlottesville/Albemarle?
People want to be able to walk to stuff. My question for my readers is this - is your neighborhood walkable? Walkscore is a great resource, although it's data is not always 100% accurate. A new tool, optimalhomelocation.com (h/t Lifehacker) offers the potential to find…
Charlottesville Builders – Local is Good (and Bad)
Editor's note - Guest post from a local citizen whom I agreed to keep anonymous. I can personally attest to what these guys gave back to the community. Whenever I called and asked for a few bucks for charities, they gladly gave. This isn't an…
A New Question for Sellers to Ask When Interviewing Listing Agents in Charlottesville
It's a simple question - do you participate in IDX (Internet Data Exchange)? Meaning, will you be marketing my property not just in the Charlottesville are MLS (to other Realtors) and on the local Realtors' Association site, as well as Realtor.com but - on every…
Where Will the Urban Cores Be? And why this Matters NOW
Get out your best Magic 8 Ball - He also observed the largest wave of Generation Y home purchasing begins in 2012, after experts think the housing market will have turned around. Although what qualifies as an "urban core area" may vary widely to different…
A word on Trulia’s new features
Trulia announced their "Featured Listings" product the other day to much fanfare within the RE.net. There's little to add to the discussion but my personal experience beta testing the product. All I have to offer are the stats provided by Trulia on my listings (click…
Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2008
If you're interested in what's around the bend in the real estate world, have a look at Gerry Davidson's three part series on the report. One aspect I found interesting about the report is that when ranking trends on a scale of 1 through 9,…
How do we think and learn?
What follows are two outstanding videos. As interesting as the videos themselves is the manner in which I found them - The first one came to light from this blog: The second one (Greg posted yesterday as well) was one of the "you might also…
Real estate will always be local
But the tools used to display that local content and data will not be. Forsalebylocals notes the value of local content, coincidentally on the same day that I received a heads-up about a new data mashup startup, Fortius One, which looks quite interesting. Ideally, FortiusOne…
Charlottesville Green Carnival
This is the first in what I hope will be the occasional yet frequent Charlottesville Green Carnival - a place to highlight, ever-so-briefly green happenings. Green Matters - now advertising information clinics in the C-Ville Weekly Sunbiosis - A Charlottesville green architect that popped up…
How do you get a green home in Charlottesville?
Just ask. Unless more consumers ask, and more developers listen, little will be done. There is real, sustainable momentum right now towards the green movement. I ran into a Realtor this morning at my favorite coffee shop, and asked whether a development that she was…