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Moving to Charlottesville? 8 Questions I Hear From Out-of-State Buyers
Most relocation guides answer the questions people think they should ask before moving to Charlottesville: school rankings, housing market statistics, popular neighborhoods, and lists of things to do. Those are useful starting poin...
Selling the House You Built After Decades of Ownership
There was no crisis behind this sale. No unexpected appraisal problem. No major disagreement over value. No need to convince the sellers that it was time to move. They already knew. My clients had lived in the same house for about fort...
5 Things I Check Before Recommending a List Price
Most sellers come into a pricing conversation with a number in mind. Maybe it is based on what a neighbor sold for. Maybe it is what they hope to walk away with. Maybe an online valuation tool gave them a figure that feels about right. Th...
Priced Right, Appraised Wrong: A Historic Home Appraisal in Central Virginia
A buyer found a stone house built around 1820 in Augusta County. It had walls nearly two feet thick, original floors, and the kind of presence that cannot be recreated through renovation or new construction. Where I grew up in Germany, walls...
How to Price a Historic Home in Central Virginia
Determining how to price a historic home in Virginia is rarely as simple as reviewing recent neighborhood sales. Historic and character properties may have distinctive architecture, original materials, documented provenance, unusual acreage, or...
Selling Inherited Land in Nelson County: A 60-Day Case Study
A few years ago, three siblings came into our office to talk about selling a piece of land they had recently inherited in Nelson County. The property had been in their family for more than sixty years. Their grandfather purchased i...
What to Know Before Selling Land in Central Virginia
Selling land in Central Virginia is not the same as selling a home. With residential real estate, buyers are usually evaluating the house, the neighborhood, the school district, and comparable sales. With land, the questions are different. Buye...From a Table on the Mall to a Storefront in Carytown
Ayla and Firat started with a folding table on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. The city permits a limited number of vendors to set up there. A table, a small footprint, and whatever you can carry in and out each day. That is where the...