Charlottesville Homes...And Where You Want To Live

As a full-time Charlottesville realtor and owner of other Charlottesville home web sites including: Charlottesville Homes, Charlottesville Area Real Estate, Charlottesville Farms, Charlottesville Condos, Charlottesville Townhomes, Virginia Farms, Virginia Historic Homes and Virginia Horse Farms; we see a lot of Charlottesville homes for sale.

And when we do see these many Charlottesville homes we get accustomed to seeing which areas and subdivisions remain healthy, clean, safe and popular for resales.

So were going to tell you which Albemarle towns around Charlottesville and which subdivisions in and around the city of Charlottesville that we like the most and why...This is only our opinion.

To do so we must break down the price of all Charlottesville homes for sale...so here we go.

Affordable Charlottesville Homes = $50,000-299,000 (Numerous great deals are to be found here!)

Moderately Priced Charlottesville Homes = $300-500,000 price range (Including many Charlottesville new homes)

Luxury Charlottesville homes= ($600-5M)

(Don't worry there are numerous Charlottesville foreclosures and short sales in all 3 of these price ranges. So it may behoove you to shoot for a better home and lowball the banks to see whether they will bite.)

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For the most affordable Charlottesville homes we like in this order: Western Ridge (because of the surrounding area, the cleanliness and the Western Albemarle Schools), Lake Monticello ( a very affordable gated golf club community on a wonderful lake. Only negative is it being in Fluvanna School District and 35 mins to Charlottesville), Forest Lakes (Wonderful planned community offering every amenity and very affordable and close to NGIC), Pen Park (4 separate building designs some with thatched roofs giving it an English flair. Located on a city park and the municipal golf course of Meadowcreek. Walking trails along the Rivanna River, bike trails, tennis and playgrounds.

What more could anyone ask so close to shopping and downtown?), Redfields (Located South of Charlottesville and I-64. Redfields is clean, safe and affordable. The only negative is its location and some of the neighborhoods surrounding it) and Mill Creek (Located off 5th St Extension south of Charlottesville & I-64. Mill Creek is huge and the oldest one of all the others. Quiet, clean and popular) because they offer more for your buck including tennis, swimming, a club house and a true sense of community.

There are numerous other Charlottesville subdivisions but they either are too new (which means the constant sound of backhoes and workmen trooping through or they offer no amenities like walking trails, golf, swimming pools and tennis courts.

Spring is THE time to look for a Charlottesville home

When the daffodils, dogwoods, and rhododendrons flower, historic Charlottesville becomes one of the loveliest small cities in the country.

Now is the time to visit Charlottesville, Mr. Jefferson's town, one of the prettiest, pleasantest, most historically significant small cities in America. Perched amid the Piedmont's rolling hills, two-and-a-half hours southwest of Washington, Charlottesville (population 90,000) has attracted visitors since the early 19th century, when Thomas Jefferson, "the sage of Monticello," often received guests at his inventively designed Palladian Charlottesville home, Monticello. The curious keep coming, and a surprising number of them never leave—the kinds of people, as the WPA guide to Virginia commented in 1940, "who enjoy contemplation or working, not too hard, or simply good living."

Monticello, which is pictured on the reverse of the Jefferson nickel, remains the big draw. Built of red brick with snow-white wooden trim, the house stands behind an elegant Doric portico and is topped by an octagonal dome. It is the only American house to appear on UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites, and with good reason. From the outside, with the crests of the Blue Ridge in the distance, it seems much smaller than it actually is, and hence less grandiose, which must have pleased Jefferson. Its serene symmetry reflects the Enlightenment's love of balance.

But it is inside that Jefferson's architectural genius can be seen in full flower. His Charlottesville home is filled with dumbwaiters, innovative folding doors, windows that double as doors and a machine that writes in duplicate. Guides help bring the place to life, providing colorful details not only about Jefferson and his family but also about the 135 slaves who dwelt at Monticello.

Monticello is a country seat, like the other two presidential Charlottesville homes in the area: Ash Lawn–Highland, James Monroe's cozy frame house near Monticello, and Montpelier, James Madison's magnificently porticoed house in Orange County, which was modernized and greatly enlarged (but happily not spoiled) by the du Pont family early in the 20th century. The University of Virginia, on the other hand, is right in Charlottesville, at the west end of Main Street. The first secular college in America, it opened its doors in March 1825 with a modern curriculum, including economics, music and government, planned by Jefferson to advance his belief that "the diffusion of knowledge" is the essential foundation for "the preservation of freedom and happiness."

He conceived the campus as an "academical village" with ten classical revival pavilions, one for each professor's residence and classroom, flanking a long lawn. At one end, as a focal point, he placed a splendid rotunda inspired by the Pantheon, in Rome, that housed the library. A shallow portico six columns wide and three deep, with grand Corinthian capitals, faces the lawn.

Ranked today as the nation's top public university, U.Va. is noted for its law and medical schools in addition to the undergraduate college of arts and sciences, which operates according to a student-run honor system instituted in 1842. Almost 13,000 undergraduates are enrolled this year, and on weekends half of them seem to be milling through the funky shops along University Avenue, grabbing a Gusburger at the White Spot or downing a beer at Michael's Bistro and Taphouse.

Northeast of Charlottesville, one of Jefferson's most far-fetched dreams is coming true. The wine-loving former president's attempt to grow vinifera grapes failed, but at Barboursville Vineyards, in the shadow of a ruined house that he designed, others have succeeded. Luca Paschina, who came to the Piedmont from Piemonte, in northwestern Italy, manages the estate and makes its deservedly acclaimed Cabernet Franc. You can sample the wines in the vineyard's tasting room or at the excellent Palladio Restaurant, next door to it, while you gaze at the hypnotic Blue Ridge. But don't let anything distract you.

Other places have beautiful vineyards and haunting mountains, but few can match the springtime blossoms and our Charlottesville real estate. Read more about Charlottesville homes...

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