Evaluating Climate Risk in 2024 and 2025 in Charlottesville

We're in a new world, and climate change is real. More of my clients are mentioning climate as a reason to move to Charlottesville. The major real estate search portals are showing climate risk, typically from First Street, which calls itself "The Standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling." -- I tend to prompt my buyer clients to ask/think about climate factors, and I suspect more...

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Charlottesville – Albemarle Real Estate Market Update – July/August 2024

We’ve been in a transitional market since I started practicing real estate in 2001. No market is the same as the preceding year’s market. In the past four years, we have seen a massive increase in home prices in Charlottesville and Albemarle, interest rates go from the 3s to the 7s and now in the 6s.

What is happening *now* in the Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate markets?

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