Virginia’s statewide unemployment rate is officially 5.3%*, having dropped to the lowest level since December 2008. The Charlottesville metropolitan area is the only region that didn’t see an increase in jobs.   *We’ve … [Read more...]

Jennifer Sowers of Long and Foster in Christiansburg took our four-minute Commonwealth survey and won herself a cool 100 bones. (That’s a $100 Amex gift card to you and me.) Let’s see. four minutes for $100 — that’s $1,500 an … [Read more...]

Here’s a chance to earn four hours of CE/PL and probably learn about something different — and something a lot of folks don’t know about. The Virginia Realtors Land Institute and Virginia Tech have partnered to offer “Real … [Read more...]

Have you experienced the “boomerang buyer” yet?  This is a potential home buyer who was once foreclosed on for whatever reason, and is hoping to re-enter the real estate market and be a homeowner once again.  Many of them have waited the … [Read more...]

A new survey from Harris Interactive — on behalf of Trulia — found that people think. A. It’ll be better to buy now than next year. B. It’ll be better to sell next year than now. “A” is probably true — more … [Read more...]

“The rent is too damn high” — add that to the growing list of reasons we’re going to see a boatload of new buyers entering the market in the next few years. That’s a reasonable conclusion from new Census Bureau … [Read more...]