We’ll be discussing year-end statistics about the Charlottesville region’s real estate market, prognostications for 2010, real estate and technology trends that consumers need to pay attention to and probably quite a bit more.

Here is my working list …

• The first-time homebuyer and “move-up” buyer tax credits.
• Reasons to buy a home now. And … reasons not to buy.
• Impact of NGIC/DIA coming to the area
• Biscuit Run’s acquiescence to the market – will it really become a park?
• Foreclosures and Short Sales in 2010 in Charlottesville – flood or trickle?
• Strategic Defaults – brought on by underwater homeowners – what will be their impact?
• Home sales and building permits
• The Charlottesville Realtor market – how many have moved on since the bubble deflated?
• Maybe a little plug for Nest Realty – Charlottesville’s newest real estate brokerage
• If you’re going to buy a home in Charlottesville in 2010, when should you start looking? (how?) (now) (Same if you’re looking to sell a home in Charlottesville)
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• I’m sure there’s a lot more we’ll discuss – what do you want to know?

I love doing radio for some of the same reasons I love writing this blog – one of the foremost reasons is that live radio forces me to prepare … as always, I prepare too much stuff to talk about, but I’d rather over-prepare. Dead air is hard to conceal.

I’m thinking about trends in housing as well …

1 – New Urbanism
2 – Green building (green as in “saving money” in addition to “feeling good about oneself”
3 – Walkability – (and its benefits for a safer community)

Examples:

Most Walkable homes in Charlottesville

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Most Walkable homes in Crozet

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