That’s the question my wife asked me a couple of weeks ago when I came home from an appointment where I provided a market analysis and advice/guidance for a seller preparing to put his home on the market. … It is beyond the time to start expressing that value. (even the Charlottesville bubble bloggers agree ) Setting potential customers’ and clients’ expectations is a start, not the least through my new services page .
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Media Appearance on Thursday 17 July
Last month , we had some great phone calls and questions, and although this time will be much shorter (thirty minutes in radio time flies by) I hope we’ll have an equally or more productive time. … Hint: Please feel free to subscribe to this blog by clicking here for RSS updates or here for email updates .
2nd Quarter Market Update for Charlottesville Region
I’m not saying that we haven’t hit the bottom, but that calling it as such with so many unknowns and new variables in the equation would be the wrong thing to do right now, despite Lawrence Yun’s statement – ” Without Forecasts, we don’t look credible .” The Realtor update (1): 1st half 2005 : 115 had more than ten sides, 296 had more than five sides, 679 had at least one, with about five hundred or so not having a single transaction 1st half 2006 : 107 had more than ten sides, 285 had more than five sides, 740 had at least one, about four hundred fifty not having one. 1st half 2007 : 73 had more than ten sides, 232 had more than five, 687 had at least one, about four hundred with zero 1st half 2008 : 44 had more than ten sides, 169 had more than five, 619 had had least one, leaving about seven hundred with zero transactions so far this year. (out of 1201 sold residential properties) From the DP on Saturday : Many real estate agents may not manage to weather the moribund market before it solidly rebounds, Savage said.
Recapping yesterday’s radio appearance discussing the Charlottesville Real Estate Market
In short we spent about forty five minutes rambling about the state of the Charlottesville area real estate market and touched on the following topics (from memory) – – Have green homes reached a tipping point? … At least one story idea came of the show, and I might try to write a story about it in the next couple of weeks – what percentage of properties are on the market in the respective localities in the Central Virginia region?
Duplicate content in the RE.NET
One of the key concepts of the real estate blogging space has been the original content and unique voices found at each different site; this originality seems to be waning a bit this year as the medium grows and the same content is published at different sites. … For example, and I’m not alone in my writing responsibilities, I write at a couple of places – – RealCentralVA – a blog focused on the Charlottesville/Central Virginia real estate market and trends affecting same.
For a Six Million Dollar Listing – Why Not Proofread?
Glen Love Cottage is the first house to be built in Vinyard Estates at Lkuge Estate Winery and Vineyard. … Rare opportunity to work with Lkuge Estate winery and wine consultants Laurent Champs , Charles Gendrot, Maicel Rolland and architect David Easton and landscape architect George Carter.
Coming up this week
Tuesday – Why I cannot tell you with accuracy how often CSX’s trains run Thursday – One way to encourage walking/biking Friday – Market update for the Central Virginia region. I’ve found that posting market updates at the immediate turn of the month is imprudent and not the most accurate of practices, so I tend to give Realtors a few days to update the Charlottesville MLS before I post my analysis.