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Days On Market Matter in Charlottesville

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Slightly longer answer – I’d also wager that of those 47 homes that went under contract in the first 30 days, their selling price is probably closer to the original asking price than those homes that were put on the market 120 days ago.

… Think about it – while you might put your home on the market for $400k and it’s really worth $370k, the buyers know this . You likely won’t sell your home in the timeframe you need or want to; when you reduce your price to $380k in three months, you’ve (probably) been making mortgage payments and delaying the move to the next phase of your life that is dependent on selling your house.

…Schools in the Charlottesville area start around the third week of August (Albemarle – PDF), and we have about three months left before the annual doldrums set in.

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Charlottesville Twitter Week in Review

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Haven’t made time yet to figure it out. in reply to ProfessionalOne # Looking for things to do near Nationals Stadium during the Dave Matthews concert tonight. … # RT @ bbalm : I really loved that spot for the Albemarle County Fair 🙁 It’s been great being on the Ferris Wheel (cont) http://tl.gd/2mb5nv # You can’t make this stuff up. … # Real estate blogging ain’t rocket science http://bit.ly/dALe79 cc: @ robhahn # Reconciling the difference b/t what one thinks a house is worth & what the market thinks it’s worth is a difficult thing. … # Missing the # cvilletweetup but spending time with my kids. # win # RT @ TBoard : ntflix now has 15 million users. does that mean we need to figure out some way to use our accounts for marketing?

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Where The Kids At?

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One of the most common criteria I get from families looking for homes in the Charlottesville area is – We want to live in a neighborhood that has a lot of kids .

…So a broker who says something like, “There are tons of little kids in this building neighborhood “it’s really family friendly” could be accused of specifically steering families to the building and driving people without children away from it.

Really.

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UVA Poised for Tremendous Growth

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“If we can reduce the number of parking spaces needed, then we can save that land for a higher and better use, which for us would be classrooms,” said Julia Monteith, UVa’s senior land use officer, at Wednesday’s meeting of the regional Metropolitan Planning Organization. … As part of the program, the school’s transit service entered into a reciprocity program with the Charlottesville bus system, started a car-sharing program and made it cheaper for those who carpool to park. … “ Instead of just focusing on how cars move around Grounds, we [wanted to] be able to look at more multi-modal transportation and be thinking about this in more of a forward-thinking way ,” Monteith said. … If we could just get the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle to look forward in a similar way – focusing on doing rather than studying – we would all benefit.

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