If you’re interested, there’s a meeting Friday, 11 December at Cville Coffee.
As an aside, I was at Cville Coffee this morning for a meeting … they seem to be stepping it up a notch. A nice paver patio in front for the warmer months, a stage is being built [...]
We’ve had Charlottesville Tweetups before. As Crozet continues its growth towards self-sufficiency – coffee shops, grocery stores, restaurants, hardware stores, Christmas trees – there are fewer and fewer reasons to come to Charlottesville (other than work … and even in that category Crozet has made progress over the [...]
The Crozet Library has been delayed. Again.
This comment on cvillenews last week spurred me to ask a question about the Crozet Library’s traffic and circulation numbers. I remembered some data about circulation being high in Crozet, but could not remember (nor find) the exact numbers … I have [...]
The Crozet Library has been delayed. Again.
This comment on cvillenews last week spurred me to ask a question about the Crozet Library’s traffic and circulation numbers. I remembered some data about circulation being high in Crozet, but could not remember (nor find) the exact numbers … I have [...]
Some things don’t warrant a full post on RealCrozetVA. That’s why I post on Twitter throughout the week and provide the summary here … there’s actually quite a bit of pertinent information! (for a much broader and less-Crozet-centric Twitter view, you can see my main Twitter account.
Courtesy of Fardowner’s newsletter …. Combined with the Crozet Mudhouse, there’s plenty of stuff to do in Crozet on the weekends!
Sat 5th, John Wyant Band
The John Wyant Band (from Charlottesville) performs at various venues, including lots of community benefits – they recently performed for the third consecutive year at [...]Old Crozet School Arts Holiday Open House today, December 5, from 2:00 to 4:00.
Demonstrations and performances by our faculty and students.
Punch and cookies and festive atmosphere, including a little snow to set the mood! www.oldcrozetschoolarts.org
Update 6 December 2009:
Old Crozet School Arts Holiday Open House postponed to SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12th [...]
Continuing my mostly-regularly scheduled Friday Chart series where we look at a snippet of data of the Charlottesville real estate market …
This week we’re looking at price changes in the Charlottesville MSA* – not necessarily price reductions, but price changes. There is no way to search solely by price [...]
Dr. Seuss Charlottesville, Dr. Seuss whoville charlottesville, the grinch … every year the questions renew …Is Charlottesville the inspiration for Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”?
This is the story I wrote last year to try to help answer some of the questions:
Is it time for the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority to accept its (possible) obsolescence? Charlottesville and Albemarle folks should read this story, and ask questions of our elected officials.
Dave Mcnair at The HooK has a great story about the impact the Vanderlinde single-stream recycling facility has had on the [...]
As much as I prefer to shop at local bookstores rather than chains, in light of the recession and the need for schools to earn money, the following presents an opportunity to support the Western Albemarle High School Library:*
A book is a present you can open again and again!
If you [...]
It seems that well enough may not be left alone; Cathy Harding reports in this week’s C-Ville:
Recent discussions between the Albemarle County Planning Department and county wineries raise questions about exactly what comprises normal activity at a winery—and even, to a degree, what constitutes a farm winery, itself. Planners [...]
From part four of Charlottesville Tomorrow’s excellent series on traffic -
Scenic 250 formed as a grassroots organization in 1997 to protect the rural character of the highway. According to steering committee member Scott Peyton, it was a coincidence that the Virginia Department of Transportation launched a pivotal study [...]
We’ve had Charlottesville Tweetups before. Now it’s time for a Crozet Tweetup.
?A Tweetup is an impromptu social gathering of people using Twitter, usually held at a restaurant, bar or coffee house. It’s not a sponsored or ticketed event, it’s just a gathering so people [...]
Transcription
Hey, Jim Duncan with RealCentralVA.com and Nest Realty Group here in Charlottesville, Virginia thinking about the various ways that my buyer clients assess neighborhoods. I provide data on the value of the homes in the neighborhoods what the recent solds and actives are, etc.
We can look at [...]
The Crozet Mudhouse is (finally) publicizing on Facebook the events they’re having. December’s going to be busy!
Mudhouse Coffee Fluid Jazz with R&B influence featuring keys, guitar, horn, and vocals. Steve Smith and Jim Wray bring the West Coast to the Blue Ridge. [...]
I am probably the worst Alumni Chapter president in the country.
At the urging of an alumnus from the Class of 49B, I’m attempting to organize/mobilize the Charlottesville chapter of the VMI alumni association. If an alumnus 50 years out is interested [...]
These are but a small sampling of the charts to which I was alluding a few weeks ago. While they are still a work in progress, I thought I’d tease you a little bit. I am still integrating the wonderful feedback and suggestions from the original post, so stay [...]
You may have noticed the blown post from earlier today discussing the Crozet real estate market. Unfortunately, I’m having some issues with the backend of RealCrozetVA; if you’re interested, check out the full post at RealCentralVA.If this kind of real estate data for the Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate [...]
One of the primary reasons my clients move to the Charlottesville region* is because, relatively, our traffic is insignificant compared to what they are used to. But for how long?
Part One started yesterday in the Daily Progress.
The difficulty in balancing growth pressures and a decline in transportation infrastructure spending [...]
From Charlottesville Tomorrow:
The Commonwealth Transportation Board will vote this week on ways to deal with a $851.5 shortfall in VDOT’s Six-Year Plan. Among the cuts is nearly $7 million for Jarmans Gap Road, a key infrastructure project supporting the Crozet Master Plan, adopted in 2004. The project currently [...]
There is talk of all that crozet has lost–and I’m sure much has been lost with all of the rapid growth of the last several years. But growth, and it’s associated losses will continue with or without master plans or streetscapes. Shouldn’t the conversation be about what are [...]
Everything’s been on the table for non-government people for years.
Next year is going to be an interesting budgetary year. Brandon Shulletta writes in today’s Daily Progress:
School division leaders drafting budget requests are also wondering whether next year’s supervisors are more likely to maintain the current real-estate tax rate of [...]
Bear with me … I’m working through something here …
I’m beginning to think that anyone who says that “next year, the (Charlottesville) real estate market is going to be better” is either uninformed, lying or delusional. I could be wrong.
About one in seven [...]
Join us for a Holiday Open House this Saturday, November 28th, from 12 – 5 PM! In addition to our regular tours and tastings, we will have local artisan vendors, live music [...]
And we couldn’t be happier by their addition.
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Nest Welcomes Two Realtors
Thanks to Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Sean Tubbs:
The fate of a proposed Regional Transit Authority (RTA) could depend on who is selected in January to represent the City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on two regional transportation bodies. Since a joint meeting in February [...]
Editor’s note on two of the items below:
1 – Regarding participation and publicizing the Crozet Community Association – if anyone ever wants to write a story (or three or five) about the Crozet Community Association, please feel free to submit it to RealCrozetVA.
2 – Having Homeowner’s Association Presentations each meeting [...]
Why Use Electronic Signatures?
1 – It’s secure
2 – It’s easy
3 – It saves time and money
4 – It’s environmentally sound – instead of driving 30+ miles to meet clients, I can just email them. Think about it – by using electronic signatures in the past few weeks, I have saved [...]
There’s a whole lot of important stuff on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors’ agenda next week – the bold parts are most interesting to me.
The next Albemarle County Board of Supervisors meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 starting at 9:00 a.m. in the Lane Auditorium, County [...]
A RealCrozetVA reader asked last night, “where are the yoga classes in Crozet”? I knew of the Old Crozet School, ACAC and I’d heard about some classes at the Greenwood Community Center. So, I asked my Twitter friends:
Visitor to RealCrozetVA wants to know where the yoga classes are in [...]
It’s amazing to look at how fast the recycling economy has moved in the past eighteen months. First, Albemarle County had no curbside recycling, while the City offered it as part of property taxes. Then, we had (and still have) at least one curbside recycling option. And now, thanks [...]
I frequently tell my clients that at any given time, UVA has a couple hundred million dollars of construction underway. Turn out, I wasn’t far off.
Charlottesville Tomorrow reports:
Pace Lochte, UVA’s director of economic development, said that a “miniature intelligence community” is developing around NGIC and the North Fork Research [...]
Rather than bore you with a full summary of my time on posterous, here are a few of the stories I noted/wrote there last week -
Postal workers say facility closure would slow mail service | Charlottesville Daily Progress
From the Daily Progress:
A man who was the treasurer of the Mill Creek Homeowners Association for about 10 years has been charged with embezzlement.
Kevin O’Connor was arrested earlier this month, police said.
Neal Grandy, president of the homeowners association, said the organization hasn’t determined exactly how [...]
I grew up in Culpeper, Virginia, just north of Charlottesville … before it became a bedroom community for Northern Virginia. My dad was and is a commercial real estate broker there; I remember when I was a kid Dad would joke with me – and say, “they know who I [...]
Now this is an interesting little widget from the folks at hotelicopter.
Frequently buyers come to Charlottesville on house-hunting trips and need a place to stay. I’d like to pick the specific ones I recommend and display that widget. What say you hotelicopter?
I’m still working on I’ll use this, [...]
Courtesy of the Free Enterprise Forum:
Last Wednesday (11/4), the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors received a briefing titled “Survey of DIA Personnel Moving to Rivanna Station”. The survey, conducted by the Center For Regional Economic Competitiveness, a non-profit research organization affiliated with George Mason University, provides [...]
Wake up a little bit earlier, grab your kids, stop by a coffee shop, and enjoy the morning on Friday!
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Friday is Walk to [...]
And we’re even getting a netbook to prove it.
Nest Realty was awarded with an HP Realtor Technology Award last week at the National Association of Realtors conference in San Diego. HP honored 5 brokerages across the country that used technology in and out of the office to gain a [...]
As far as I know, this is only for Crozet Elementary, but why not expand it to all schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle?
If you’re in Old Trail, stop by Trailside Coffee on the way to Brownsville, Henley or Western Albemarle. If you’re in Downtown Crozet, stop by the Crozet Mudhouse. [...]
Once again, it’s time for the Charlottesville Toy Lift. And once again (thanks to my wife being on the Board for the Toy Lift) it’s time to volunteer.
Click through to fill out a volunteer form.
What is the Toy Lift?
The Kids Lift Foundation believes every child is entitled to [...]
I’ve been using electronic signatures for a few weeks now, and they have been tremendously helpful – saving gas, time and energy. Instead of faxing, emailing, printing, scanning … my buyer and seller clients have clicked to sign. From out-of-country to clients to those fifteen minutes away … Simple and [...]
From a reader:
Please stop by the Crozet Mudhouse between 2:00 and 4:00 on Saturday, November 21, to meet the artists of Old Crozet School Arts, a nonprofit school for arts instruction located in the old Crozet Elementary School.
We have faculty in dance, drama, art, and music as well as [...]
Erika Howsare walks from Laurel Park behind the Hollymead Town Center to the Harris Teeter in said Town Center. From what is supposed to be a “walkable” area, she walks in drainage ditches and discovers sidewalks and stairways to nowhere.
I stepped onto the edge of [...]
Jeff Gunther has a slightly different idea for a slightly different workforce here in Charlottesville. For many local mobile warriors, turning wherever you find yourself into a workspace is the status-quo. However, without access to printers, actual desk space, big screen monitors, and conference rooms, Java Java can’t [...]
The world is flat.
I just got off the phone (although I have Skype, too) with a client overseas who had been questioning whether the railroad near the Belvedere development was abandoned. She answered her own question when she said, “I’m looking at it now, and it appears that [...]
The United States Air Force Heritage of America Band’s Langley Winds woodwind quintet will span more than 250 years of musical tradition when they appear at the Field School for a FREE performance co-sponsored by Old Crozet School Arts and Field School on Monday, November 16th at 7:30 pm. [...]
The development is moving forward off of Rio Road (it’s not done yet; it still needs site plan approval) …

Location of Treesdale Park off Rio Rd, between Towne Lane and Stonehenge Road.
Treesdale Park is an 88-unit multi-family community that will be located on East Rio Road. AHIP [...]
And grab a cup of coffee; it’s a long post with lots of analysis, market data and a bit of opinion.
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Gingergermani says on Twitter:
Seriously, the light at WAHS is the worst timed light ever.
From a reader:
Have you noticed how screwed up the lights have gotten at WAHS and Henley? Seems they have been reprogrammed to “rest” where it is green for WAHS. Do you have any contacts at the [...]
This is an amazing story, and I find it mighty cool that we have these nuns in our presence.
Read the whole story by Lindsey Nair with the Roanoke Times.
By the time Sister Smickel arrives at the barn that morning, Sister DeFeo and Sister Jan McCoy are already bustling about, [...]
The Crozet community is invited to attend public forums on the five year revision of the Crozet Master Plan.
The next forum will be held:
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Old Crozet School/Field School
The public forum is being held by County staff and the Crozet [...]
From a reader:
I recently talked to the local Blue Ridge Food Bank, and they desperately need many items. They especially need canned meat (tuna, spam, salmon…). Therefore I am organizing our first canned food drive for Old Trail, otherwise called a “Meat ‘n Greet!” We are planning on meeting Saturday [...]
For including me on their list of “Wired Business people in Charlottesville”
From the story:
CBS19’s Bianca Spinosa profiles a list of three local business leaders who are “wired-in.” They use all the high-tech tools to communicate and keep their businesses prospering.
From cyber space to work space, these three local business [...]
I’m sitting on a panel discussing the Future of the MLS at the National Association of Realtors convention in San Diego. After the announcement of RPR last week, the future is bright/cloudy/great/muddled/uncertain.
As with every conference I attend, I go with a couple goals:
1 – What can I learn [...]
You might have seen the occasional Zipcar in Charlottesville – usually they’re from the DC Metropolitan area. But now it seems that Charlottesville has their own Zipcars – 6 of ‘em in fact.
It was good of UVA to have sorted out a deal with Zipcar; [...]
You may remember a story a few months ago in which I discussed recycling options in Charlottesville and Albemarle. It used to be that there were no options, then there was one and now there are a few.
Three years ago I ran a poll questioning the market for [...]
It’s been pretty boring in real estate for a while. Not anymore.
There was an announcement by the National Association of Realtors, in conjunction with Cyberhomes and RPR, LLC in the real estate world last week, and likely very few Realtors, real estate agents and fewer consumers knew, noticed or [...]
Why do I post weekly reviews of my Tweets? Simple. I want that content to ultimately live on my site, and the post also gives me a chance to review what I was discussing the previous week.
First thought on Houselogic.com – It’s trying to be a Mint.com for homeowners. [...]From yesterday’s Daily Progress regarding the worsening Albemarle County budget (bolding mine):
The proposed 77.2-cent tax rate would mean the average homeowner would pay the same real-estate taxes as this year for the next two years, officials say. Assuming real-estate values begin to pick up, there would be a slight [...]
From yesterday’s Daily Progress regarding the worsening Albemarle County budget (bolding mine):
The proposed 77.2-cent tax rate would mean the average homeowner would pay the same real-estate taxes as this year for the next two years, officials say. Assuming real-estate values begin to pick up, there would be a slight [...]
The recession is finding its way further into Crozet.
From Charlottesville Tomorrow:
Boyd expressed concern at the amount of money that the County has invested in the project. He said he was not sure if this was appropriate spending given the County’s ongoing budget issues.
“We have two master plans, and we [...]
And this is a good thing, I think. Courtesy of Charlottesville Tomorrow:
Southern Development is donating an acre and a half of land to increase the size of Forest Hills Park in Charlottesville. The land, which is appraised at $90,000, is located between Forest Ridge Road and Antoinette Avenue. [...]
From friends at Blue Mountain Brewery:
Today is the release of our tasty Lights Out Holiday Ale. Available on draft & in six-packs here at the brewery. Today is also the first Thursday of the month which means it is Steal the Glass day, all day long. Buy a beer [...]
A vistor to RealCrozetVA asked the other day:
“what happened to Patterson’s Flower Shop? I noticed a new sign with a new name in front of their shop yesterday”
Luckily, we have the Crozet Gazette …
But there’s still a flower shop … more at the [...]
From Albemarle County:
Mark Your Calendar…
The Crozet community is invited to attend public forums on the five year revision of the Crozet Master Plan.
The next forum will be held:
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Old Crozet School/Field School (across from Crozet Elementary School)
The public forum is being [...]
From friends at Blue Mountain Brewery:
Today is the release of our tasty Lights Out Holiday Ale. Available on draft & in six-packs here at the brewery. Today is also the [...]
Update 7 November:
And it’s a Law.
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Three things:
1 – David Slutzky losing is huge.
2 – If you think your vote doesn’t count, think again.
3 – Local elections matter.
Lots of discussion in the Charlottesville news:
- Daily Progress
- cvillenews
- The HooK
- [...]
If you’re wondering where to vote in Charlottesville or Albemarle (or anywhere in Virginia, really:
Start here if you’re looking for where to vote in Virginia. Charlottesville City polling places Albemarle County Polling places Google’s Virginia Voting information. Me? I’ll be watching the [...]
If you’re wondering where to vote in Charlottesville or Albemarle (or anywhere in Virginia, really:
Start here if you’re looking for where to vote in Virginia. Charlottesville City polling places Albemarle County Polling places Google’s Virginia Voting information. Me? I’ll be watching the [...]There’s never been a better time or reason to grow one.
I’ve never had a mustache before, and really, if I can’t have a little bit of fun with my facial hair and hopefully raise a bit of money to fight men’s cancer, what good is waking up everyday? Life’s [...]
If you desire a weekend activity and a great cup of coffee–
Load up the kids on Sunday afternoon…grab your favorite newspapers and take the kids on a country drive to look at the Autumn Colors and wind up at the new Crozet Mudhouse.
Yay, soccer in Crozet this morning. #
If you're searching for Crozet real estate, take a look at FranklyMLS – [franklymls.com] – it's unlike anything you've seen #
@petermcarey I'm at Anytime Fitness now. Can't do that at ACAC. in reply to petermcarey [...] Have a look at Patricia Kluge’s estate in Southern Albemarle County.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Virginia winemaker and philanthropist Patricia Kluge is offering her 300-acre English country estate in Charlottesville, Va., for $100 million, one of the most expensive listings in the U.S.
…
The property includes a pool, pool [...]
Homes placed under Contract in Charlottesville and Albemarle in the month of October:
These numbers do not reflect much new construction or properties that will not proceed to closing for any number of reasons, such as home inspection negotiations not coming to terms, financing issues, etc.
As I [...]
Re-purposing a post from my posterous:
If Google announcing their GPS did this to Garmin’s and Tom Tom’s stocks,
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In 2006, I was a few years early in my prediction.
There’s a place for print media, and advertising homes for sale in Charlottesville ain’t it.
Branding a brand – or brokerage – consistently in print gives readers the impression (and illusion as the case may be) that a brokerage [...]
It looks like the homebuyer tax credit will (likely) be extended. Maybe.
Via Calculated Risk and Bloomberg:
- Income eligibility for home buyers increases to $125,000 for individuals and $225,000 for couples.
- The tax credit for first-time home buyers (anyone who has not owned in the [...]
There’s more to the Charlottesville real estate market than data – it’s crucial to look beyond the numbers.
Transcription:
Jim Duncan from RealCentralVA.com here. It’s Monday morning and I’m nursing a sore throat.
But I wanted to talk about how the Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate markets are full of anomalies and [...]
Charlottesville architect/developer Bill Atwood in Brandon Shulleeta’s story in today’s Daily Progress:
Atwood said that in the retail world, “the longer you can get people to stay, the better the pay. In other words, if you have somebody who’s actually going to stay and eat at dinner and actually [...]
The Google folks drove through Crozet – likely just before Memorial Day weekend this year.
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Google Street View in Crozet
If you hadn’t noticed, Google recently came through Crozet. And none of us saw them???
And they must have been through relatively recently – gas at the BP was $2.29. And the sign says “Crozet Park Pool opens Memorial Day Weekend”
And the [...]
The tax credit has been useful and a decent stimulus; but … “eventually you run out of other peoples’ money”
I’d love to see a map or data from the IRS showing where the tax credit was used – broken down by zip code so that someone could generate a heat [...]
Brandon Shulleeta reports in today’s Daily Progress:
A plan that would refurbish business buildings in the heart of Crozet — connected to or within walking distance of new apartments — might begin within several months, despite major financial stumbles.
And Bill Atwood verbalizes succinctly something I’ve been saying more verbosely for [...]
David Slutzky, from Charlottesville Tomorrow’s story – Albemarle candidates discuss transportation, economic development, and water supply (bolding mine):
Slutzky said he is concerned that VDOT wants to turn U.S. 29 into an “expressway” in order to make it easier for through traffic to travel through Albemarle County. He said there [...]
Occasionally I post about real estate on RealCrozetVA.
I couldn’t help posting about this home for sale in Old Trail. It’s a short sale – $725,000 for nearly 4,700 finished square feet and nearly 3,300 unfinished square feet.
6611 Woodbourne Lane, Crozet, Virginia.
* I’m a Realtor in Crozet, after all. [...]
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