Best in the World gets more challenging all the time.Charlottesville Blogger MeetupAlbemarle County lessened their tax hikeThe real-time passenger information system will cover about 400 bus stops for the city’s 28-strong bus fleet. The City needs to do more than track the buses stuck in traffic. To Buy or Rent? Two good tools to help determine the answer to this question – one from Noah and one from the NYTimes.Green roofs take off.
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Tuesday Links – 27 March 2007 – Green stuff and foreclosures
Are there “Victims” in Foreclosures? Or is holding people accountable for their decisions unreasonable?Short Sales in the Luxury Home Market – I am curious to see what happens to this segment in the Charlottesville area; I have heard already of anecdotal pain. Translating anecdotes into data is the next step.New vs. Existing Home Data; my local analysis is coming the first week of March.EcoHome Guy’s blog (hat tip to Living Green)”Zero is the new black” – sustainability is not a fad.
Monday links 03-19-2007
One of the best things you could subscribe to a read right now – The Dip by Seth GodinA good story referencing home warranties – I recommend that all of my purchasers get home warranties (some are good, some not so much) – if that $400 saves you $6,000 when the HVAC dies – isn’t that money well spent? Housing and the Stock marketA doom-and-gloom perspective on the housing marketMortgage suitability? (via Volokh) – How much protection from themselves do buyers need?
Friday links 02 March 2007
Why invest in student housing? I noted the other day how UVA’s population is growing …Subprime pain starts to spread.The Free Enterprise Forum’s March newsletter is out.Go to the gym, create some energy (HT: slashdot)Go Green, get richThe Budget WinoWorried about privacy? The Government will take care of that.
Thursday links 2-21-2007
Carnival of the GreenHow to stage your homeStats, lies and real estateHow to shrink Albemarle’s footprint – yes, Virginia, green building is smart and fiscally viable:Specifically, the board is considering tying rezoning and special-use permits to the willingness of developers to promise to build green…. Ultimately, says Lowe, change will come from a widespread shift in the mindsets of builders and homeowners regarding both the benefits and ease of green building…. (hat tip: Luxury Home Digest)Two great local organizations, the Charlottesville Venture Group and the Virginia Piedmont Technology Group, are merging…. We will have more than 300 member companies and the resources to be the preeminent private-sector advocate and catalyst for entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development in the region.
Thursday links 02-07-2007
Rate your agent sitesHome buying one step at a time – a great wiki entry from Zillow.
Green homes = common sense
More and more, people are recognizing the value of common sense…. Why is this green movement going to last?The Wall Street Journal (temp free link here)Today, heating and cooling of homes accounts for about 20% of U.S. energy use, according to federal estimates, and the movement towards greener homes is likely to help curb the country’s emission of greenhouse gases, experts say. And a survey last year by McGraw-Hill Construction found that for the first time, a majority of U.S. builders said they planned to use green features in at least 16% of their homes by 2007 — in what NAHB officials call “a tipping point” in builders going green.Washington PostGreen building is fast becoming something that more and more builders are doing, because they are encouraged by the market’s demands. One local builder has recently discovered that most of his homes are in fact, close to Energy Star level and is working to make that extra push.