Is up at the Property Monger.
Browsing Category sideblog
The best description of the market I have read this week
Hah. Via the HooK. Referring to a (very nice) condo development in Charlottesville:And the fact that of 125 units, only 49 have sold lends an added air of quietude.
Real estate carnival #20
Bigger Pockets hosts the Carnival this week. Refreshingly, he keeps the focus local; and for that I say – thank you!
Out of context
“I would like to pay our police officers more, I would like to pay our fire more, I would like to pay our teachers more, but the fact is that we are limited to the revenues that we take in from taxes,” said Board of Supervisors Chair Dennis Rooker. “Everybody likes better services, nobody wants to pay more in the way of taxes.” (Courtesy of WCAV)While nobody may want to pay more in taxes, we most assuredly are paying more in taxes, thank you very much.From 2005:…… A good chunk of that increase is coming from the rising value of raw land, though house values have climbed quite a bit, too.
Realtor Technology Survey
Thanks to the Future of Real Estate Technology for pointing this out. Most Realtors have a long way to go. The Survey is here.
Good enough for Google and China
Soon it’ll be good enough for the rest of us. Besides, once CNN covers something, it has clearly taken a step further into the masses’ consciousness. Certainly it’s not enough for McDonough – the former dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture and head of two pathbreaking design firms in Charlottesville, Va. – whose eco-friendly schemes are sweeping, radical, and “head-twisting,” as McDonough puts it…. Entire cities with factory roofs covered with vegetation.
Carnival #19
Ubertor hosts this week’s Carnival.