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Exquisite English Country home on 2.5 acres. Very private with lovely views of the golf course and distant mountains. The architecturally designed, 7,000+ sf. residence offers LR, DR, gourmet kitchen, library, office, media room, and 5 BR. MLS#611738 $1,695,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250
KESWICK COUNTRY CLUB
Bordering (Full Cry)Pete Dye golf course and lake, within grounds of Keswick Hall, 5-star luxury resort, is this magnificent 5-bedroom residence constructed of the finest materials with attention to every detail. MLS#603398 $4,200,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 www.FairwayDriveAtKeswick.com
RIVANDALE FARM
An oasis of tranquility and fine country living within 20 miles of Charlottesville, 14 miles to CHO Airport. 177 private acres with c.1901 classic Virginia farm house, completely remodeled and updated. MLS#609244 $3,795,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 www.RivandaleVa.com
Beautiful Georgian style, custom home built in 2017 on 5.26 private acres. Gourmet kitchen with butler’s pantry. Open concept kitchen/LR/DR. MBR on main level. Unfin. basement is framed to include a 6th BR, full bath, theater room, LR, wet bar, and storage area. Located in Ivy Estates in quiet cul-de-sac in coveted Western Albemarle. Property has access to a pond across the street that is stocked with fish and walking trail. NO HOA dues. Quick access to I-64 and minutes from UVA, Boar’s Head, and Farmington. (Owner/Agent) MLS#619228 $950,000 Jennifer Weaver, 202.957.3465
GREY OAKS
In the heart of this exceptional country estate is an immaculate, 6-BR, 6.5-BA home offering outstanding views overlooking a 2-acre lake to the Blue Ridge Mtns. Total tranquility, over 53 rolling acres, wonderful outdoor spaces, and a 1,800 sf barn. MLS#617485 $4,165,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863
JUST 6 MILES AWAY
Elegant, traditional-style home with modern open floor plan, 4 BR and 4.5 BA. Offering 3 levels of living space on 3.98 private acres of yard surrounded by beautiful hardwoods. NO HOA, Meriwether school district. MLS#618745 $1,375,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076 or Steve McLean, 434.981.1863
FAIRVIEW
Circa 1880, 4-BR, 2.5-BA home on 2.34 acres, surrounded by a 288-acre farm protected with a conservation easement. Located near several vineyards and breweries and only 15 miles to Charlottesville. Western Albemarle School District. MLS#616135 $978,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076
GALLISON HALL
Set on 43 park-like acres, this Farmington gem features a 1931-33 Georgian house, indoor pool and tennis facilities, spectacular Blue Ridge views, total privacy, and an exceptional close-to-town location. On historic registers. MLS#617686 $8,450,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863
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Stunning Colonial Revival style circa 1913 residence has been recently restored to perfection. The current owners lovingly and thoughtfully preserved the exterior and interior architectural details yet have used modern high end finishes for a huge “wow” factor. The floor plan is updated for an easy, comfortable lifestyle. Great flexibility in this fourbedroom, five-bath brick home with coveted private backyard and off-street parking. Walk to the amenities of the Historic Downtown Mall and UVA. MLS#608794 $1,449,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250
FARMINGTON
1954 Milton Grigg 8-BR residence on over 2.5 acres. Fronting the 17th fairway in Farmington, offering a quality-built home, gorgeous setting, and prime location only minutes to UVA and Downtown. MLS#606911 $4,950,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863 www.320FarmingtonDrive.com
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KESWICK
Enjoy mountain views of the historic Southwest Mountains from this livable 4-BR residence on 6 private acres. Convenient and quick to Pantops, Historic Downtown Mall, and UVA. Within steps of all the amenities at Keswick Hall. MLS#611672 $989,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250
GLENDOWER ROAD
PRICED UNDER COUNTY ASSESSED VALUE! Classic, well-built 4-bedroom home, privately situated on 5 private acres only 15 miles south of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, and only 5 miles from historic Scottsville. MLS#604475 $599,000 Will Faulconer, 434.987.9455
WESLEY CHAPEL ROAD
Nice, mostly wooded residential building lot in Meriwether Lewis School District! Great privacy, 1.72± acres, beautiful rural setting in an area of large farm and estate properties. Located approximately 15 miles NW of Charlottesville. MLS#613685 $125,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863
SUNNYSIDE
Remarkably large parcel located convenient to Charlottesville and UVA. Exceptional Blue Ridge views, charming farm house (in need of restoration). Under VOF easement but with divisions into already predetermined parcels. MLS#585228 $4,400,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863
LONESOME MOUNTAIN ROAD
5-acre lot that has not been available for many years. This country but close-to-town location is conveniently located with quick access to Historic Downtown Mall, UVA, NGIC, airport, and North Fork Business Park. MLS#593160 $250,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250
FRAYS MILL
Mostly wooded preservation tract of 81.395 acres next to Frays Mill subdivision in highly desirable northern Albemarle. This beautiful gently rolling land has a great, private homesite with Blue Ridge Mt. views and creek on property. MLS#608509 $995,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076
WOODLANDS
Beautifully restored 1780s Colonial on 293 acres in Northampton County. This historic home has 4 BR, 3 full & 2 half BA. Property has access to the Machipongo River which flows into the Atlantic. Rare offering. MLS#614051 $1,495,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863 www.WoodlandsFarmVa.com
CLOWES HOUSE
C. 1870 residence in the heart of Gordonsville with historic character, original architectural detailing, & updated systems. Walk to the many amenities of Historic Main Street Gordonsville or take a short drive to Charlottesville and UVA. MLS#615710 $289,000 Charlotte Dammann, 434.981.1250
BUFFALO RIVER ROAD
Elevated 21-acre tract, mostly mature hardwood forest and road frontage in northwest Albemarle. Elevated homesite offers potential panoramic Blue Ridge Mountain views with some clearing. Adjacent 21 acres also for sale. MLS#614424 $160,000 Jim Faulconer, 434.981.0076
BELLAIR
Rare opportunity to purchase a building lot of just under 1 acre in sought-after Bellair. Lush, mature landscaping, partly wooded, stream/creek. Minutes from UVA, shopping, dining, and entertainment. Western Albemarle school district. MLS#614627 $375,000 Steve McLean, 434.981.1863
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188+ acres in Albemarle, 12 miles south of Charlottesville on Rt 20. This wooded tract, mostly in hardwoods, offers long road frontage with potential for eight 21-acre lots. There is conservation easement potential. MLS#614109 $1,299,000 Tim Michel, 434.960.1124
FRAY’S GRANT
3 fabulous home sites mostly in beautiful hardwoods, gently rolling and priced below tax assessments! Each Lots are 2+ acres on private setting. FRAYS GRANT is only 10 min. to airport, shopping, including Harris Teeter, Target, Kohls, Bonefish Grill and Starbucks. Jim Faulconer 434,981.0076
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4 Gordonsville Gates Community offering the Largest Model Constructed. The Victoria features fully finished basement with Theater Room, Full Bath &Wet Bar. Main Level w/ 2 Story Foyer, Grand Staircase; Formal Living Room & Dining Room; Powder Room and Open Kitchen. Large Laundry Room off 2 Car Garage. Morning Room with French Doors lead to the Generous Deck & Screened Porch. Upstairs: 3 spacious Bedrooms a full bathroom plus Master Suite. Vaulted Ceilings; WalkIn Closet; Soaking Tub & Shower with dual vanities. MLS# 619245 $399,900
Remarkably spacious; contemporary 3 Bedroom 2 full bath outside the Main Gates at Lake Monticello. Vaulted Ceilings & Skylights. ALL NEW: Kitchen Cabinets, Counters, Stainless Maytag Appliances, Luxury Vinyl Flooring, Light Fixtures, Custom Fireplace, Master Bathroom Vanity, Light Fixtures, Flooring, Toilet. Private Fenced Yard w/ Raised Garden Beds, HUGE 20x10 Shed, Play Structure & boarders conservation land & Rivanna River. *Both the front door & side entry door are already ordered and being installed July 15th* Truly a MUST SEE! MLS# 618280 $305,000
Country Living in Convenient Location. Close to NGIC, Hollymeade, Pantops. Private Stocked Pond & almost 5 acres in Albemarle County. Main Level Master Suite, Tiled Dual Head Shower, Bamboo Hardwoods in Living Room, Eat In Kitchen w Stainless Appliances & Granite Counters. Covered Front Porch w View of your pond & pasture. Covered rear deck & Finished Basement with HUGE Family Room, 2nd Full Laundry Room, 3rd Full Bathroom & 4th Bedroom. 6 miles to Proffitt Rd. 9 Miles to Hollymeade Town Center. This home is a Must See! MLS# 605931 $475,000
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Smart Renovations for Post-Pandemic Days
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ou’ve been reading about how hot the market is, and now you see it’s true. Listing after listing is quickly bid up higher than you want to pay or is sold before you even call a REALTOR® about seeing it. Staying put looks better and better— but does what you’re looking at have to stay the same? The kitchen counter is scratched, the bedroom blinds will never be white again. And those energy bills—well, if they’d just stay the same, that would actually be alright, but they won’t. Costs rise as the efficiency of aging equipment declines. So if you’ve always loved your neighborhood anyhow, and you’ve decided to stay put . . . now what? If you’re not going anywhere, what about a little renesting? What are some smart ways to make your house more of a home, more desirable when you finally put it on the market, and less expensive to live in right now? What are some of the most popular upgrades?
Making Your Home More Comfortable A lot has changed in the last 16 months, and for many of us, that includes work habits. “Because of the pandemic and the changes it has brought, the main thing I see is that people now need an office or a work space because they’re working from home” says Anne Hughes with Real Estate III - West, who has been selling real estate here for 18 years. “That is a new thing on everybody’s minds: ‘Where is there a corner or a bedroom or something that we can convert to an office?’ A listing may be more highly
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priced because it has a designated office.” More of us are working from home, yes, and perhaps the recent dearth of opportunities to travel or to socialize and participate in activities away from home has driven even indoorsy types out of the home office and into the great (backyard) outdoors. “Another thing I’m seeing is that people are valuing rural properties more,” Hughes notes. But even city folk “are valuing doing things outside more—so adding a patio, fixing up the front porch and the back deck, that kind of thing, so they can just have spaces outside that they enjoy. I see people spending money on that.” Adding a skylight is a good way to bring a little of that outdoors into the house with you. On a cloudy night when no stars are visible, LED lights in the shaft will brighten the space so it isn’t
just a black hole. Landscaping your property with deciduous trees will shade the home in the warmer months. For maximum effects, plant them on the south and west side of the house. But the kitchen and the bathrooms are where most people like to start when they upgrade their homes, and renovations there can return much of one’s investment when the home is sold. Todd Buck of Albemarle County’s Weston Construction has been remodeling since he was 18 years old, and bathrooms and kitchens are what he gets the most calls for nowadays. “We tend to gut a kitchen down to the drywall and studs,” Buck says. “Typically, we will install all new cabinetry, and granite or quartz countertops. Sometimes we change the layout and add islands.” “We’re also seeing a lot of people who want to do a tile backsplash in the area
between the upper and base cabinets, and flooring,” Buck notes. One perennially popular backsplash choice is subway tile (3-by-6-inch glazed rectangles), a style and form that can be traced back to early 20th century New York City subways stations. Historically always white, they now come in many other solid colors, shades, and finishes. When it comes to bathroom renovations, tub to shower conversions are much called for nowadays. “We see a lot of people who want to switch from a regular tub to a stand-up shower,” Buck says. “They don’t want to have to step over the side of a 15-inch tall bathtub to get into the shower.” Glass-enclosed showers, often with benches and upgraded fixtures like wall-mounted shower panels with a variety of different sprays, are all the rage.
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Step one in making your home more energy efficient and cheaper to live in is use less power. “Say you have an attic hatch—if that’s not sealed, that’s a place where you’re losing energy,” says Greg Slater of Charlottesville’s Nest Realty. “It’s easy to climb up in the attic to see if the insulation is heavy enough, if it’s covering everything. If you’ve never been up there, you might find places that are just sheet rock of the ceiling, that’s just another place for heat loss. “I’ve never met anyone who didn’t want a more comfortable home that was less costly to operate,” Slater says. Over the years he’s talked to many homeowners with energy goals, “but can never figure out how to connect the dots and actually implement a plan.”
water when you actually need hot water, or a hybrid tank that heats your water by taking heat from the air in the house. It may include tuning up or replacing and upgrading a heat pump. ENERGY STAR® is a governmentbacked symbol of energy efficiency, and Energy Star-rated appliances like dishwashers, refrigerators, home electronics and more meet an international standard. Energy Star lightbulbs use 75 percent less energy than regular incandescents and last up to ten times longer. Energy Star LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs burn just as efficiently, but last two to five times longer than regular fluorescents and 35 to 50 times longer than incandescents. Smart thermostats let users heat and cool homes efficiently, for example, by setting different temperatures for different times of the day. They adjust for
know you’re going to need. The biggest challenge to solar is shade; in these newer communities with no trees, there is no obstruction.” Solar panels are a big investment, though many companies offer financing. “You can get a more efficient water heater for about $1,000 dollars, but you’re going to spend $10,000 to $30,000 on solar depending on the size of your home and how much room for solar panels you have,” Slater says. Placing a resale value on that investment isn’t easy for the time being. “I’m seeing more of solar because it’s a technology that has improved a lot,” Hughes says. “When it first came out, I think people were not sure about it; they were bigger. They still don’t give a house curb appeal, but they look a little better now. Younger buyers in general are more interested in green aspects of the house.”
A smart way to start is with an energy audit by a professional who can rate your home and help you devise a plan for both immediate and long-term improvement. “The best place is the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP),” Slater says. “They’re a one-stop shop for all things energy efficiency. They partner with local government to help our elected officials who want to institute policies to raise the energy efficiency.” Having an energy check-up is a way to get a basic understanding of how your home operates and where you might start making improvements. And LEAP can connect you with trustworthy contractors focused on energy efficiency. Increasing efficiency may include checking for drafts, weather-stripping doors and windows, sealing and insulating ducts, and replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents, halogens, LEDs or smart, programmable LEDs. It may include installing a tankless water heater, that only heats your
humidity and show the amount of energy being used. Some can be operated remotely through a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer. Others track a user’s preferences and adjust automatically. According to the EPA, smart thermostats can save up to $180 per year on heating and cooling bills. All these steps will provide long-term energy savings—and lower energy bills. And for the really ambitious, a decision to maximize energy savings will include a decision, as Slater puts it, to “make your own solar power.” “The biggest thing we see happening over the last few years is the addition of solar panels. The productivity of the panels has caught up to making the economics work. If you’re buying the home for a long term commitment and we show you the math of how the panels will pay for themselves in eight to ten years and you have the resources to do it, it’s actually a great investment. It’s buying in advance power that you
“The biggest thing we see happening over the last few years is the addition of solar panels. The productivity of the panels has caught up to making the economics work.”
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“I have a listing with solar panels on the roof, way out in Albemarle County. It’s very remote but I’m surprised at all the interest it’s getting. I think a lot of the interest is because of the solar. To certain buyers, that means a lot.” Another good option for homeowners in Central Virginia, where the summers are hotter than the winters are cold, is the so-called cool roof, designed to keep a building comfortable in warmer temperatures by reflecting the sun’s light, and in so doing absorbing less of its heat. Typically, cool roofs have been white, or perhaps some other light color. Newer cool roofs, however, also come in richer, darker hues. As a bonus, cool roofs can also enhance roof durability. All these measures also reduce the home’s carbon footprint.
What You May Recoup Remodeling Magazine rated projects in the Richmond area, pitting their construction costs against the cost recouped upon resale to find the percentage of cost recouped. Here are some of the specifics they found for average and larger sized projects. Midrange (average-sized) projects: Major kitchen remodel, 44.7 percent; minor kitchen remodel, 55.1 percent, master suite addition, 51.5 percent; bathroom addition, 44.1 percent; bathroom remodel, 44.6 percent; basement remodel, 55 percent; roof replacement, 55.6 percent; siding replacement, 48.4 percent; garage door replacement, 51 percent; manufactured stone veneer, 102 percent; steel entry door replacement, 81.5 percent. Upscale (larger-sized) projects: major kitchen remodel, 45.9 percent; master suite addition, 47.7 percent; wooden deck addition, 62.7 percent; window replacement (wood), 59.6 percent; window replacement (vinyl), 54.7 percent; garage door replacement, 45.1 percent; grand entrance (fiberglass), 35.6 percent. On average, the projects Remodeling Magazine rated in 2017 paid back an average of 64.3 cents on the dollar in resale value. REALTORS® were most likely to recommend replacement rather than addition projects. Projects with “curb appeal”—siding, doors, and windows— typically generated the highest returns on investment.
Plan First One thing Buck always recommends is that clients have a set of plans drawn up by an architect or draftsperson before the work begins. “If we have plans, we can price what’s there and give you a pretty good hard price, and if that’s too much it’s a whole lot cheaper to start with a new piece of paper than to already have it in place. Yeah, I can build it, but I want you to be happy with what I’ve built. By the time we start, you should have a really good understanding of what the products are that are in the project, and what the cost of that project should be.” So plan well, but first dream a little. The pandemic has loosened its hold. If you’re sitting on a pile of cash you haven’t been able to spend on travel, why not upgrade the house?
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housing discriminaTion
learn some possible signs so you can help sTop iT. • “We don’t take kids.”
• “The apartment I told you about on the phone has been rented.”
• “We don’t take teenagers.”
• “We only take people who speak English.”
• “I can’t assign you a handicap parking space.”
• “The ad was wrong – the rent is really $75 more.”
The only way To sTop housing discriminaTion is for you To reporT iT.
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