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EatPlayWilliamsburg.com lists local pizza specials for the superbowl

Website Lists A Variety Of Pizza Specials To Be Offered In Williamsburg, Virginia   EatPlayWilliamsburg.com, a website built by Williamsburg locals Eddie and Mindy Lepp, has posted local pizza specials for Super Bowl Sunday 2013. Eddie and Mindy encourage the support of local restaurants, so only “local” pizza shop specials will be listed. Nine local […]

NVR-Ryan Homes earnings rise as housing market improves

Homebuilder and mortgage company NVR’s (NVR) stock jumped about 2% Thursday, after the firm reported sharply higher income in its fourth quarter and beat analysts’ estimates, amid rising home sales. The stock is up 9% this year. New orders increased 22% to 2,625 homes, while settlements were up 17%. The company’s backlog, an indication of […]

Custom Builder’s Family Home for Sale in Skimino Landing Estates

Williamsburg, VA. -With yards large enough for family softball games—and he’s had several of them — builder David Campbell knew Skimino Landing Estates, located near the York River and Camp Perry, was the right place to build his own family’s custom home. “The lots here are all 2 plus acres, and I like that,” said […]

Can you guess the list price of this Williamsburg home ?

Our company is running a fun contest, and I know everyone loves Opus 9 restaurant in New Town. The challenge : Guess the list price of an upcoming listing for a home I will be putting on the market in Williamsburg VA The prize: the winner whose guess is closest to the actual list price […]

New program will allow some On-Time Borrowers to Leave Homes & Mortgages

For some homeowners, March 1, 2013 will be Liberation Day. That’s when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will start allowing some homeowners who have been stuck in their homes—unable to move because they owe more than the property is worth—to walk away from their homes and mortgages The new rules for deed-in-lieu of transactions apply […]

Builder on Eastern Shore of VA earns highest efficiency rating

It may seem as if LEED Platinum designations must always be awarded to the most ultra-modern, big-city projects with huge price tags and outlandish designs. Sometimes, however, the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest rating recognizes the ingenuity used to make modest, rural homes as energy efficient as humanly possible. Such is the case for a […]

Classes starting soon at Willliamsburg Area Learning Tree

Along with the Christopher Wren Society, the Williamsburg Area Learning Tree (WALT) offers a number of  unique classes hosted by your instructors who want to share their enthusiasm and interests with you. WALT is a non-profit educational program that brings people together to share their excitement and love of learning. These classes have you saying […]

Population growth in Virginia outpaced the nation

From UVA Today-Population growth in Virginia outpaced the nation, with highly varied growth across localities, according to the most recent official annual population estimates for the state developed by demographers from the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Virginia’s population grew by 2.3 percent, to nearly 8.2 million residents, between the 2010 […]

Colonial Heritage in Williamsburg too good to leave for this retired couple

Dick and Mary Sue Metrey’s traditionally-styled, open concept home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Colonial Heritage is up for sale. But that’s not because the couple want to leave the gated, 55+ active adults community; it’s because they want to stay. For Dick and Mary Sue, the gracious 3-bedroom, 2-bath home they built on Blakemore […]

Toano-Burnt Ordinary Virginia–Center of commerce and industry

BY FREDERICK BOELT- James City County Historical Commission The Friends of Forge Road and Toano (FORT) have recently produced another pamphlet about that area of the County. There is documented evidence that there was an ordinary (which is a tavern or eating house) and a general store located at the cross-roads of the Stage Road […]