The NRVLiving Real Estate Blog

    Photo Credit Seems like every year, we work with folks looking to buy their first home in Blacksburg.  They're in various stages - recent graduates, newlyweds, singles either working or studying in the area - and home ownership is often high on the list of priorities.  So I thought I'd take a...

That's the question asked by outgoing Blacksburg council member Paul Lancaster after last night's 4-3 vote, turning down the proposed Sonic in the First & Main development.  Wish I had the answer.  I've had two calls from friends this morning asking about the issue, and other than referring them ...

What is - I think - a pretty good editorial regarding the latest First & Main controversy ... council must issue permits consistently and deny them only for a compelling public reason. Is Council issuing permits consistently, and denying them only for a compelling public reason?  To me, it seems ...

Last month I mentioned that I had received an email entitled "The Language of Building" from Progress Street Builders.  Today, I got Part Two.  Here it is: Punch list: There are literally thousands of details that go into the construction and finishing of every new home. Although we monitor every...

Improvement overall in the market, and a slight improvement over last month.  A 16% increase in the number of homes sold in May versus April, with a drop of a month and a half to just ten months worth of inventory.  That's better than what we saw in January, and similar to what we've seen over th...

On Tuesday, I was fortunate enough to have the chance to see up close and personal a new home community being built in Blacksburg.  The community is called "Mount Tabor Meadows", and it's a project being built out by Green Valley Builders.  I've mentioned it briefly before. So what?  There's a lo...

Although a lot of real estate brokerages discount the services of Northwest-based Redfin, they put out a list of "15 Questions To Ask When Hiring A Real Estate Agent" a couple of weeks ago that I thought were pretty good.  It's not a perfect list, but it's  agood start.  As agents we're often int...