Get out your best Magic 8 Ball – He also observed the largest wave of Generation Y home purchasing begins in 2012, after experts think the housing market will have turned around. Although what qualifies as an “urban core area” may vary widely to different people, it seems a safe bet to expect considerable variety in tastes in the housing market.
Browsing Category Transportation
If you don’t think gas prices are affecting buyers
You’re just not paying attention .
A lifestyle shift – riding a bike
While biking certainly isn’t feasible for all of my trips – showing property for example – my new bikedoes allow me to cut down on a few miles almost every day – and that’s not too bad. …
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?
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.
Government’s not going to do it – so why not Google?
What if Google, in addition to driving times, added a “biking” or “estimated walking” time, and highlighted appropriate bike routes? … With gas prices going up faster than we can keep track , what would it take for the Charlottesville region to duplicate some of these lifestyle decisions ?
Proximity to rail equals higher property values?
Estately , one of the best real estate search sites out there puts forth this as fact – When buying a home, living near rail lines is better . … *For real estate blog geeks (like me) the first line of my post in May ’05 is intriguing to me – “Found this blog today with a very interesting story about the above subject -” ” this blog ” is the venerable Rain City Guide .