Frascati c. 1823 When Frascati was completed in 1823 in Orange County, Virginia for Phillip Barbour who had just retired as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court,…
A rare opportunity to acquire a significant historic estate in a superb location just 30 minutes from Charlottesville and the University of Virginia. The house is described in the Virginia…
Charlottesville VA is horse country and the horse farms are beautiful Is Virginia’s Piedmont horse country? You bet! With five active hunts, Olympic caliber trainers, some of the best equine…
Orange county VA has a "concentrated suburban" feel to it I’d actually be a pretty good person to ask. I’ve lived in Orange County since 1983. I was a transplant…
It’s easy to look back at market trends and graph exactly how the last 10 years played out. It was a typical first half of a sine curve with a…
How private is private? A private back yard might be nice, a private wooded lot with some space between houses might be perfect or even a little acreage with where…
United States history pretty much begins in Virginia with the founding of Jamestown in 1607. As the colonization of Virginia moved westward, the Piedmont Valley, bounded by the Blue Ridge…
You’ve been living the urban life for thirty years and dreaming of retiring to the country someday. Every weekend you drive down country roads and imagine that it’s you on…
Little more than a year ago my clients were getting a 30 year fixed rate mortgage at 3%, a 15 year fixed at 2.5%. Sellers were getting stacks of offers…
Financing country property can certainly be a maze to navigate. A buyer looking at a lovely home on 75 acres near Charlottesville may be thinking that the timing is perfect.…
