July 2022 property transactions in Charlottesville: Part of Seminole Square Shopping Center changes hands; Linden Avenue condo building has new owner; High price record set on Prospect Avenue

Another look at the property market in Charlottesville for anecdotal purposes

This is the 19th month that I’ve written up a summary of property transactions in Charlottesville and shared it with the public as part of my work covering land use issues in the greater community. I hope you’ll find this bit of my research informative and useful.

I started this newsletter over two years ago as a way to get information out about the details of what’s happening in an area that continues to grow. There are a lot of moving parts in this community, and I’ve spent a lot of my career trying to keep track of as much as I can.

This September marks the 20th anniversary of my arrival in the Charlottesville area, as well as the 30th anniversary of my introduction to journalism. Somehow while a student at Virginia Tech, I decided to try my hand at making a career out of reporting and to this day I’m trying my best to make a go of it. 

I am grateful to the hundreds of people who have opted to help support my work with a paid subscription to this newsletter or through Patreon support. In exchange, I do my best to stay up to date on as much as I can so that readers and listeners can also be informed. 

One of the biggest issues in our community, and the nation, is the cost of housing. I’ve covered the conversation for over 15 years, including stories that are still on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. For the past two years, I’ve collected my stories on Albemarle, Charlottesville, and UVA land use on Information Charlottesville. All of this is made possible by support from readers and listeners who want to know what’s going on.

So, that’s why this summary of property transactions is temporarily behind a paywall. I am hopeful those of you who haven’t yet subscribed will do so so I can continue to keep going. Ting will match your initial payment because they also support the kind of detailed journalism for which I am known. 

There’s no analysis intended in this report, and I am hoping to add more value to this report in coming months, but for now I had a spare moment in between the rest of my reporting. Please let me know if you have any questions and go back to previous installments for my basic rules for how I do this each month. All of the records from the city’s Open Data portal. The property’s designation in the adopted Future Land Use Map is listed in parentheses, unless the sale is for a unit in a larger structure.