From the category archives:

Economic Trends

Freddie, Fannie and the New Guy

March 11, 2013

I guess sharing the risk of mortgage-backed securities is the simplest explanation of why Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are beginning to streamline their procedures to fit with those of a new entity designed to replace them both. It needs to be noted that a main ingredient of the new plan is to allow private financing of [...]

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This Could Be The Time

March 8, 2013

We’re all hearing it everywhere…. now is the time to try to sell your home. Or it’s the time to try to unload your home, depending upon your frame of mind after years of watching your property values plummet into the basement. There’s actually a wide variety of factors that substantiate the optimism for listing [...]

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Virginia Population Growth and Demographics

February 16, 2013

The Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia conducts continuing research into demographics and statistics of all types. They tackle a broad range of issues from government to the environment, and they produce very unique reports from their studies. One of those reports may interest newcomers to Virginia, because the report has interactive charts and [...]

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Consumer Financial Protection Details

January 18, 2013

In one year (Jan. 10, 2014) the new national Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules go into effect, to protect borrowers and to define what lenders can or cannot do. Here’s your link to the details of the new rules. Briefly summarized, here are 9 areas of the major points covered by the new rules. The Bureau provides [...]

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Architects Spot Housing Trends First

December 30, 2012

It’s always interesting to get the perspective from particular groups of folks who work within the housing industry. Although as Realtors we get a lot of input from our clients, it’s challenging to quantify the actual trends if you base it only on sales figures. That’s one reason we found the following article so interesting … it’s written by an [...]

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Charlottesville Real Estate Report Third Quarter 2012

October 8, 2012

Here is the latest Charlottesville Association of Realtors market report for the third quarter of 2012.

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Charlottesville Compared to Other Southern Towns

July 10, 2012

Quite often we are asked why the real estate prices in Charlottesville have not declined as much as in other metropolitan areas. The standard answers are because we have the University of Virginia, our close proximity to Washington, D.C., we have our own micro-climate here and so forth. All very general answers but where are [...]

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To Rent or To Buy

April 29, 2012

The John Burns Real Estate Consulting firm has recently conducted a survey of over 20,000 respondents, trying to determine the nuances of potential intergenerational home buyers. Their results were quite interesting. Among their findings were some data about the 25-34 year olds possible home buying habits. Many factors are contributing to making that age group less [...]

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Charlottesville Virginia Real Estate Market Report First Quarter 2012

April 16, 2012

Hot off the press! Here is the latest Charlottesville Real Estate Market Report for first quarter 2012 as compiled by the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. If you are interested in farms, visit Gayle Harvey Real Estate’s Central Virginia Farm Report and the Central Virginia Land Report.

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