Is the wooden deck on your home structurally sound?
The City of Charlottesville is offering free inspections of wooden decks on city homes this week, as part of a Building Safety Week. To get your deck evaluated, call the city at 970-3331.
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This Week: City Offers Deck Safety Evaluations
Posted in Charlottesville Interest on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clearing for Meadowcreek Parkway Begins!
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, News, Opinion & Analysis on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to a February 12 VDOT press release passed along to me through my neighborhood association, the Meadowcreek Parkway project begins with site work in Albemarle County next week:
CULPEPER -Land-clearing will begin the week of February 16 for the Meadow Creek Parkway project in Albemarle County. Project contractor Faulconer Construction Company, Inc. is currently doing [...]
Map of Delinquencies Shows How We Are Faring
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, tagged Charlottesville economic conditions on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are curious about how Charlottesville is faring financially compared to other areas of the country, check out this Dynamic Map of Bank Card and Mortgage Delinquencies , searchable by county.
Provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the map tracks the percentage of bank cards delinquent for 60+ days and the percentage of mortgage loans [...]
Transportation News from Cville Tomorrow
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, Living Well on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Charlottesville Tomorrow recently posted Virginia Department of Transportation To Require More Road Interconnectivity, which is an amazingly overdue and welcome change, as well as Google Transit Comes to Charlottesville.
FHA Loan Limits Increase for 2009
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, Getting Ready, Mortgages, tagged 2009 FHA loan limits, FHA increase, FHFA on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FHA loan limits for 2009 will be $437,000 for single-family houing in much of the area surrounding Charlottesville. The Charlottesville MSA (including Charlottesville City, Albemarle County, Fluvanna County, Greene County and Nelson County) is designated a high cost area and, as such, has a limit higher than the nationally-established “floor.” HUD publishes a list of “high-cost” area [...]
2009 Conforming Loan Amounts Increase Locally to $437,000
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, Mortgages, tagged conforming loan limits charlottesville on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a press release from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, “conforming” loan limits (for loans sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac) will increase in 2009 for properties located in most of the Charlottesville region.
While the $417,000 base loan limit remains the same, “high cost” area limits for the Charlottesville MSA (Charlottesville City, Albemarle, Greene, Nelson, and Fluvanna) [...]
HomeSharing: Would Group Ownership Work For You?
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, Community, Getting Ready, Living Well, Mortgages, tagged homesharing; group ownership; shared equity on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Local Realtors John Tansey and Nancy McCarthy are getting the word out to the community about shared home ownership with a Homeshares blog and public meetings.
John says, “The idea is for several individuals to purchase a home together. Think about three people who can each afford to buy at $150,000. Alone, that much money will maybe buy [...]
National News Story Supports Charlottesville’s Real Estate
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, Property and Value on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you see the recent item in Newsweek noting Charlottesville, among other college towns, as historically enjoying a strong real estate market even when other localities falter?
The story mentions the stability of the University town, with “good health care, cultural events, steady employment and smart people.”
If you live here already, you are probably aware that people move to Charlottesville from all over [...]
Financing Strategies for Higher-Priced Homes
Posted in Charlottesville Interest, Getting Ready, Mortgages, tagged Jumbo loans on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s interesting to search local listings every once in a while just to see what is on the market. After getting a call from someone considering “buying up,” I decided to look at the choices in the $500,000 to $900,000 price range. My search on mycaar.com returned 230 listings in Charlottesville City and Albemarle County.
It’s true [...]
Mapping Albemarle County Parcels
Posted in Charlottesville Interest on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I recently talked with Bill Palmer (who has a cute house to sell on McIntire Road ). Bill is a GIS Analyst with TEC, Inc. He showed me a Geographic Information System application on the Albemarle County website that has very useful applications for anyone involved in real estate.
Found at http://gisweb.albemarle.org/, the first interesting thing [...]
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