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Good News Reported about Future of Charlottesville’s Real Estate Market

Compared to 2000, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Phoenix and Dallas lead the pack in our population growth forecasts on an absolute level, while Charlottesville, Santa Fe, Yuma, Yuba City and Laredo show the strongest percentage growth through 2020 . … Despite the arguments about ” whether ” the Charlottesville region ” should” grow , the fact remains that we are going to grow; how we deal with this growth – infrastructure (transportation and internet), housing, equitable complement of businesses, property taxes, etc.

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Where Are the Walkable Neighborhoods in Charlottesville/Albemarle?

A new tool, optimalhomelocation.com (h/t Lifehacker ) Here’s my very rudimentary definition, based on personal biases and listening to my clients’ wants and needs – – Schools –(you can search by elementary school on my Charlottesville Home Search ) – Walkable neighborhood with sidewalks –(Walkscore can help, but you’re better off asking someone or driving by the area – or better yet, we can ride to the properties on bicycles!) … — The County of Albemarle does not offer curbside recycling, but two private companies have recently sprung up to fill this need – My Recycling Club and Green Pieces Recycling , so if you’re in the Urban Ring of the County, you should be able to get recycling.

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When Forbes Says Charlottesville is Among The Best Educated Cities

1 – Boulder, CO 2 -Ann Arbor, MI 3 – Washingon, DC 4 – San Jose, CA 5 – San Francisco, CA 6 – Southern Connecticut 7 – Charlottesville, VA Charlottesville, Va. MSA – ed. note: Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson (and also, but not technically, Louisa) Adult population: 123,269 Bachelor’s degrees: 29,038 (24%) Master’s degrees: 13,970 (11%) Professional degrees: 4,722 (4%) Doctorates: 4,817 (4%) It’s said that the greatest gathering of human knowledge in the White House occurred when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

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NGIC Employees can choose Their Own Buyer Representation

Neither I nor my company will not be one of those going on this trip to court the future residents of Central Virginia, but that doesn’t mean that our Buyer Agency services offered won’t be available to these employees; we just won’t have the initial one-on-one opportunity to introduce ourselves. … An important note – the Charlottesville/Albemarle/Greene (otherwise known as “Central Virginia) region does not have reliable public transit (yet) – although local government officials are doing their respective best to extract whatever they can – (bolding mine) Supervisor David Slutzky (Rio) asked how many people might be in that “contractor tail” in addition to the 1,000 personnel being relocated.

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Charlottesville’s Bubble Bloggers Revealed – Part 1

One of my goals is to encourage all of my clients and readers to educate themselves as much as possible; there are a few real estate blogs in the Charlottesville area – this is one that should be considered, if only for their candor and “contrary” point of view.

…We think there will, unfortunately, be more sellers who realize that they’re going to have to take a loss, perhaps a significant one, to get the property off their hands—so they don’t incur an even larger loss by holding on even longer.

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