February 2025 is a slow month for property transactions in Charlottesville

Another anecdotal look at what's happening in real estate transactions

We’re in a time of the American economy worth documenting. Of course, you might expect me to say something like that given that I’ve spent a lot of my years documenting whatever moment I was in at the time. One of the things I’ve been tracking for some time is the property market in Charlottesville.

February was a slow month and this edition doesn’t really get into any of the trends and there’s no speculation about any of it. As part of my work, I routinely go through property transactions and then share the information.

Paid subscribers in Substack get to see this first. Then the summary will be posted to Information Charlottesville where there are now four years of these anecdotal summaries of each month’s real estate transactions in the city.

This is currently the only written perk for paid subscribers. I would like to offer more but my main goal is to have as much of this information available for as many people as possible.

I often take some of these stories and use them for the basis of other stories. The first one for this month ended up being fleshed out in C-Ville Weekly. I’m very curious about how things work and am grateful to have other outlets to explore the stories of this community.

This edition is perhaps the shortest yet. I do not post transactions where money doesn’t change hands unless there’s something interesting. I am trying to draw everyone’s attention to the sharp increase in property values from 2020 to 2025.

A sincere thank you to paid subscribers and especially those I have not yet written to personally. That’s what I will be turning my attention to as this day continues.