This regime is trying to kill people and make people’s lives worse in every which way.

If you buy or rent a home – or want to someday - you have to hear this. New documents from whistleblowers suggest the Trump Administration is gutting your rights under the law. We need an independent investigation.

CC: Albemarle and Louisa Counties. "(AWS) plans to build eight more data center buildings on a 1,444-acre tract south of Route 33 ... bringing the total number of the warehouse-like facilities currently proposed for the property to 18. tammypurcell.substack.com/i/173855910/...

Hey folks, have you heard about #WeekWithoutDriving? Please join me for the local Cville area experience. Here's a link for more information and to signup: livablecville.org/weekwithoutd...

Would love to see the national Association of realtors, provide some data and context with respect to how many residential real estate homebuyers this affects

When you listen to the full clip he’s saying they’re setting up advance teams in the cities. This isn’t immigration it’s getting ready for riot control and the elections.

The Rivanna Trail’s Loop de ‘Ville Trail Festival is coming up on Saturday, September 27th. There are many events, including short and long distance hikes, runs, and mountain bike rides. There will be 7 aid stations around the 20 mile loop with snacks and drinks. Learn more at loopdeville.org

OMG this is going to wipe out hospitals, universities, and tech companies.

Managed to write 2 blog posts today, see a possible new listing, and rode my e-bike for 12 miles around Charlottesville. In a world in which wins of any size matter, these count. www.realcentralva.com/2025/09/19/o...

What a photo. ( @staceywescott.bsky.social )

Pete Buttigieg WARNS America: “They didn't stop at the law firms. They didn't stop at the Universities. They didn't even stop at the comedians. They are NOT going to stop until they have TOTAL POWER!."

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

Empathy matters, no matter what.

I remember this speech when Jon Stewart gave it. It was powerful. And urgent. And 100% true. And like too many things over the last many years, it wasn’t taken nearly seriously enough.

Do it in Albemarle.

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

Working on a blog post, looking at sold homes in Albemarle County, resale. Market shift is happening.

The Fed expects slower GDP growth than the White House does -- especially 2026 onward. One Fed participant projects GDP growth of 2.6-2.7% in 2026, 2027, and 2028, but none projects GDP growth as high as the White House does.

Absolute highlight of my day: getting some work done at Selvedge & having a pint. Run into client who said their kid is 10 years old now. "Remember when you told us to prepare to live in our house for 10 years? It's happening. :) "

"In the current environment of fear and uncertainty at NASA, it will be more challenging than ever to elicit dissenting views, making it more difficult than ever to prevent the next human spaceflight tragedy."

At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.

 1 - Look, it’s a duplex 2 - Nice sunrise on my ride 3 - Started to respond, and didn’t, to a Nextdoor post. A good start to the morning

I remain strongly suspicious that this was done specifically to kill battery factories, to slow or prevent the adoption of EVs. Perhaps Trump et al gambled that this wouldn't have a larger effect on foreign companies building factories in the U.S., but if so, I think that's wrong.

Fact check: accurate. (and the people in the room, who presumably like him, think that’s funny…)

One of the absolute highlights of my day yesterday was riding my ebike around Charlottesville for 10 miles, meeting a couple new clients, & riding the separated path alongside John Warner Parkway. It is *Amazing.* From Dunlora to Nest on Rose Hill took a Prince Caspian & part of Samson & Delilah

This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

Watching a real estate economist talk yesterday; texts to a friend: - Is it just me? I’ve never had a client use cap gains as a reason to not buy/sell. - That was probably the worst, delusional, I won’t go so far to say, dishonest, presentations I’ve seen him do - Oh f off. 4th Q will be better?!??

The more I listen to commentary about a housing shortage, the more I conclude that we (the US) need completely how we build & move - commercial + apt, attached + density w/ commercial. Focusing on SF homes and apartments in non-accessible locations is a multi-generational mistake.

Europe gets it.

September's note is out. So much happening in the world; here's some Charlottesville real estate market commentary, stories about trauma and moving, a birthday note, & one of my favorite client comments -- when we terminated a Contract."

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Ran out of room in my monthly note for Charlottesville real estate market data, so I put this together today. Note coming tomorrow morning - JimsNote dot com. www.realcentralva.com/2025/09/10/s...

Learning about Charlottesville-Albemarle developments. The number of projects that take > 7-10 years to get approved is astonishing. Holding costs, plans, everything takes so much money.

Why would anybody willfully choose to go to Florida for any type of education? Indoctrination, sure, but education? Nope.

This is one thing I think is missing from the Wall Street estimates of tariff impacts: there are general equilibrium effects that depend on the level of *world* trade and how that conditions competitiveness.

Really interesting. There’s that uncertainty again. As I said in a meeting yesterday, it’s not the rates that are the challenge right now, it’s the uncertainty. archive.is/2025.09.08-1...

Good stuff for those who (mistakenly) think the housing market will open up "when rates drop." youtu.be/1e8F5t3Hj68

If you're in Charlottesville or Albemarle, the weekly "Week Ahead" is a must read. www.reddit.com/r/Charlottes...

What the fuck. While he is the worst, those who continue to support him are worse.

This video (though terrible) is not BREAKING - it's from months ago - and this person is spreading misinformation at a very dangerous time for kicks and clicks. Block them.

Read to the end of this one. Trust me.

When the press abides, their complicity is magnified. They have failed US

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Things I see when riding my bicycle around Charlottesville, and I’m able to stop to take pictures of.

This is America.

A not hot take /observation as I drove to my first showing of the day – there is a distinct correlation between neighborhoods populated by people with discretionary time and income, and weighted vest distribution. 

Only the best. Living through the collapse of an economy/society/country/democracy is fascinating

Sign I pick my clients well: First meeting today -- they email, "I woke up with a cold. I'll be sure to mask." So appreciated.

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in