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A Good Story about a Charlottesville Builder

in General Real Estate on April 30, 2020 April 8, 2020

Charlottesville agents will know the builder about whom I write, and likely have a story or two to share. Would you call your builder ten years after you built to ask him to look at/fix a problem? You could call, but what would they do? If it's the builder I'm writing about, there's a darn good chance they might just fix it. I was...

Pandemic Innovations/Changes – Changes for Sellers – Second in a Series

in General Real Estate on April 27, 2020 April 23, 2020

COVID-19 has quickly changed how people list, market, and sell homes in the Charlottesville area. Here are a few ways that we’ve already seen these changes.

Pandemic Innovations/Changes – Loss of Day One Buyers – First in a Series

in General Real Estate on April 23, 2020 April 23, 2020

COVID-19 has quickly changed how people buy homes in the Charlottesville area. Here are a few ways that we’ve already seen these changes.

COVID-19 and Charlottesville’s Real Estate Market – #3

in General Real Estate on April 8, 2020 April 8, 2020

A client asked me – what do you think about this (real estate situation we find ourselves in).

I told her – three months ago, I would have had an easy, quick answer to this. Now? I think we’re going to be ok, and here’s why.

Real Estate Closings in the Charlottesville Area in the time of COVID-19

in General Real Estate on April 1, 2020 April 1, 2020

Chip Royer with Royer Caramanis has been keeping a lot of Charlottesville's real estate community informed with frequent updates about the state of real estate closings in this time of COVID-19. I asked him if he would share some of that knowledge with me for me to publish, as I know a lot of you may be asking some of these questions. He graciously obliged....

Thoughts on COVID-19 and Charlottesville’s Real Estate Market – #2

in Albemarle Charlottesville Market statistics on March 29, 2020 March 29, 2020

Quiet West Main Street on a Sunday Morning

I think I'll keep writing these weekly updates, if for no reason other than to show some pictures from bike rides around Charlottesville. Today's picture is from a Sunday ride, late morning, on streets that normally are quite active. In the face of the ongoing (now, until at least 30 April 2020) national social distancing initiative, I suspect we're going to see these remain quiet....

There are No “Little” Real Estate Deals

in General Real Estate on March 27, 2020 March 27, 2020

There are no "little" real estate deals. This is one of my favorite stories, that I originally wrote about in 2007. I was negotiating on a "little" condo, representing the buyer. The other agent, another high producing Charlottesville agent, and I were going back and forth over $200 here, $300 there. At one point he said, "let's get through this little one, Jim, and on...