It looks like the homebuyer tax credit will (likely) be extended. Maybe. Via Calculated Risk and Bloomberg: – Income eligibility for home buyers increases to $125,000 for individuals and $225,000 for couples. – The tax credit for first-time home buyers (anyone who has not owned in the last 3 years) will be the lesser of $8,000 or 10% of the purchase price. – For move-up…
Print Media is …
In 2006, I was a few years early in my prediction. There’s a place for print media, and advertising homes for sale in Charlottesville ain’t it. Branding a brand – or brokerage – consistently in print gives readers the impression (and illusion as the case may be) that a brokerage is viable and successful. “Have you heard of Google? Search “Gourmet”! There’s a ton of…
Charlottesville and Albemarle – Real Estate Anecdotes and Anomalies
There’s more to the Charlottesville real estate market than data – it’s crucial to look beyond the numbers. Transcription: Jim Duncan from RealCentralVA.com here. It’s Monday morning and I’m nursing a sore throat. But I wanted to talk about how the Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate markets are full of anomalies and anecdotes that can clarify and confuse. Here are two examples that are not…
On Villages in Charlottesville and Albemarle
Charlottesville architect/developer Bill Atwood in Brandon Shulleeta’s story in today’s Daily Progress: Atwood said that in the retail world, “the longer you can get people to stay, the better the pay. In other words, if you have somebody who’s actually going to stay and eat at dinner and actually walk around, you’ll be viable faster. … Having people live there is the ultimate.†Atwood said…
Google Street View in Crozet
The Google folks drove through Crozet – likely just before Memorial Day weekend this year. View Larger Map
More on the $8,000 Tax Credit
The tax credit has been useful and a decent stimulus; but … “eventually you run out of other peoples’ money” I’d love to see a map or data from the IRS showing where the tax credit was used – broken down by zip code so that someone could generate a heat map showing the parts of the country that used the $8,000 tax credit the…
Charlottesville Real Estate – Twitter Review – 10-24-2009
Why do I post these “Twitter week in Review” posts? Simple. My blog is my home. I want the content – the thoughts, the links, the conversations – to be here rather than there. So … that’s why. Sore throat and cough, meet Wild Turkey. # Unfriending a few folks from Facebook; they're not friends, they're contacts, so it sounds harsh saying that. # Trying…