What (Realtors) need to do is understand that our core competency is no longer finding homes but has become representing clients once we’ve found the home.
Date Archives April 2010
Twitter Week in Review
RT @TheFix: Why is Fox Soccer Channel not in HD? Maddening. # Rode my bike to soccer & coffee meeting; now to drive to show land then houses. Unexpectedly (& gratefully) busy today. # Going…
Friday Chart – Homes listed in April in Charlottesville MSA
Looking at the type of home listed in the first 15 days of April in the Charlottesville MSA* over the past few years … Of the 325 properties that have come on the market in the first 15 days, 13 are listed as being short sales. That’s ridiculously inaccurate (using anecdotal evidence). See all Friday Charts
Designing Places for Health and Play – 24 April 2010
I’m not sure whether society is less “safe” than it was, but the perception of society has certainly changed.
… Come find out at a public talk and workshop by landscape architect and nature-based educator Robin Moore and other staff of the Natural Learning Initiative . Designing Natural Play Spaces for Healthy Children and Planet, Saturday, April 24, 2010 will teach about approaches to better children’s health through designing natural play spaces. Moore’s public talk, Free Range Nature Play: Designing for Healthy Development of Children and Planet is scheduled for Friday, April 23, 2010.
Charlottesville MLS Photo of the Day
I rarely if ever post MLS photos here, but had to share this one, without comment: 
It’s not a foreclosure.
Thoughts on Charlottesville’s Open House Weekend
I think they’re a waste of everybody’s time at least in this market but I held one anyway because it was National Open House Weekend and I’ll do whatever I can to try and capitalize on some kind of traffic and we had three and a half people through, well three and a half sets.
…They’re looking for the next phase of their lives and the challenge is they need to sell their house that they bought two years ago in a neighborhood that has had significant property declines so I’m not holding out much hope for them even though they were wonderful people and I would love to work with them. … The last set are folks who have been looking for five years and believe it or not there are quite a few of these folks out there who are looking at the market and think the pricing is a bit absurd and out of whack and they’re just waiting for the right opportunity. These folks are like another set of my buyers with whom I’ve been working for years and years and years, are looking for their dying house, for their last house, their last move, for the last place they’re ever going to live in.
Charlottesville Area Real Estate Market Report – End of 1st Quarter Market 2010
Here is the report produced by the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. More analysis to come … <!–more–> Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors 1st Quarter 2010 Real Estate Market Report