The other day we reported that Virginia property taxes fare pretty well compared to the rest of the nation, and now we have more good news — Virginia closing costs are also on the low end of the scale! Researchers for a new study requested a good faith estimate for...
Archives: July 2011
James Madison University Port Republic Road Athletic Fields (AKA University Park)
If you’ve driven on Port Republic Road or Neff Avenue recently, you’ve probably seen the major construction taking place! James Madison University is developing an 85 acre athletic field complex, and has been underway since late 2009. It is scheduled for completion in March 2012 and opening that summer, so...
Virginia (Specifically, Harrisonburg) Property Taxes Compared To The Rest of The Nation
Property taxes in Virginia, compared to the rest of the US, are pretty much in the middle, if not on the lower end of the scale. Did you know that according to Credit Sesame, who provides a really cool interactive map of property taxes by state in the US, New...
Bridgewater’s Dynamic Aviation To Add 50 Employees
Dynamic Aviation, a private company based just south of Harrisonburg in Bridgewater, Virginia, is home to 500 employees (company-wide), and they are getting ready to add 50 more. True to their motto, “Innovation Takes Flight,” Dynamic does something that no other company does. They provide aerial services, like data acquisition,...
Harrisonburg Area Real Estate Market Report: June 2011 [new and improved!]
We’ve turned another page in our calendars and that means it is also time for our real estate Market Report. A few updates have been made to our report because we think it needed a bit of sprucing up. We now have two main sections: Sales and Contracts. We’re also...
Virginia Ranked Top State for Business
CNBC recently published an article about the top states for business, and guess who ranked number one? That’s right… Virginia! It has one of the lowest unemployment rates of any state at 2.9% compared to 9.1% nationally. See below for Virginia’s rankings in each of the categories of this particular...