– One thing that didn’t make it in last week’s Daily Progress story – (Hopefully) more on homeowner’s insurance and vacant houses – about 33% of the houses currently on the market in Central Virginia are vacant – so this is a very pertinent issue. – A breakdown of the state of the Central Virginia (including Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson – not Louisa ) real estate market by price range.
Date Archives June 2008
A thought on the current Realtor.com/AVM debate
Realtor.com has the opportunity to leverage their tenuous data advantage and position themselves ahead of the competition. Their current tactic of emulating rather than differentiating is not a positive sign.
Walk Score and Zillow sitting in a tree
And the results are fantastic . The data is a hair out-dated, but you can still get a very good feel for the walkability of a location. A sincere thank you to Zillow for making their neighborhood boundaries open source , and to Walk Score for their site … might “Bike Score” be in the works?
RSS Pieces provides a rundown of how ePerks is destroying its own reputation
Real estate bloggers are not unionized, but we do have a tendency to unite when appropriate. … Support Vlad Zablotskyy’s Defense Fund Defend your own right to free speech!
Podcast of Tuesday’s Radio appearance
Here is the podcast of my appearance on Tuesday’s Charlottesville – Right Now! show on WINA. Every time I do radio, I am amazed at how fast the time goes by. Thanks to CPN for…
Transportation Town Hall on Monday
If you would like more bike lanes or rail service or other transportation concerncs, take the time to tell some of the people whose voices matter (not that ours don’t – they just have bigger and better targeted microphones). Town meeting on transportation with Delegate David Toscano and Senator Creigh Deeds Monday, June 16 at 7 PM Albemarle County Office Building – Room A.
Street View in Charlottesville
While it’s not “street view” in the traditional sense (Google) and in spite of some questions about how they’re doing the display of IDX data, but what CurbPlaces is doing is pretty cool. … We’ve started with Downtown and the City and our slowly making our way across the map (as fast as our intern can ride his bike carrying a laptop, digital camera, and GPS device…)