It isn’t easy being green when you don’t understand what makes you green.

Sustainability is a word that will likely be in the housing lexicon for the next generation of housing and beyond.  LEED and Earth Craft Certification and the Green Building Council are all terms that will continue to become more and more prevalent in the minds of the home buying public.  As the demand becomes more and more real, the building community will be forced to respond.

Realtors need to respond as well.

At One South, we work closely to better educate our agents and their clients about the importance of building in a sustainable and efficient fashion.  Being able to communicate the readings on a blower door test or the benefits of a conditioned crawl space not only helps our clients understand their options, but helps the appraisal community assign value to the building techniques that are unfortunately far too rare in our marketplace.

Allow an agent at One South to help your in your efforts to ‘go green.’

 

One of the benefits of working extensively with the DEVELOPMENT community is the access to the ARCHITECTURAL community.  Being asked to collaborate with the designers and builders to create spaces that the public demands is one of the greatest compliments a brokerage can receive.

We have received it on several occasions.

The housing market has changed sharply since its height and helping communicate the new demands of the buying public to those that design and build is a mission that is both important and fun.  Being asked to ‘charette‘ on the design of ‘flexible housing’ or to match the correct size, materials, sustainability and finishes of a new ‘four-square‘ in a mature neighborhood never fails to be stimulating.  Hearing the ideas of some of the brightest in the Metro is also something that makes our job that much more fun.

Exposure and dialogue with the creators of housing benefits our ultimately benefits our clients.  Knowing where housing is headed is just one more benefit of working with One South.

Each year, the Better Housing Coalition gathers together the best of the best of projects completed in the last calendar year and judges recognizes them for the efforts to rebuild the right way.

2011′s ceremony has held at the Hippodrome Theater in Jackson Ward.

It was an honor to be a representative on the judging panel and it was even more so to call many of the folks that were nominated and/or winners our clients.  Ron Stallings with Walker Row Partnership, David Gammino with City and Guilds were both recognized.  Property Results (Stella 360 Apartments), Bill Chapman with BCE, David Johannas with Johannas Design Group, and Walter Parks Architects were also part of development teams on many projects recognized over the course of the evening.

We congratulate them all.

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Where is the closest Whole Foods?  And an Ambercrombie & Fitch?

Suburban Richmond expanded tremendously in the past decade.  Areas like The West End, Glen Allen, Chesterfield and Midlothian all experienced rapid growth.  Check out or page on Suburban Richmond to find where we break down many of the areas and terms you commonly hear when people talk about what is considered ‘THE BURBS.’

 

 

 

In January 2008, a group of established and high producing agents decided that there was a better way to do business and One South Realty was born.  Recognizing that the new way real estate was done involved merging residential and commercial practices with a developer presence, One South grew quickly into the teeth of one of the most challenging markets in history.

With some of the most in-depth knowledge of the Metro and the subtleties between neighborhoods, One South offers its clients progressive marketing techniques, multiple layers of experience and a proactive mindset……exactly what a client SHOULD expect from an professional sales team.

Where is Jackson Ward?  Wait…..I thought that was Carver.  I’m confused.  Where is VCU?  I thought that was MCV.

Selling within the City limits requires some additional knowledge that many agents are unwilling to seek.

That is not the case with the agents of One South.

By constantly exposing themselves to those that understand the past AND are paving the future of RVA, One South agents understand not only the trends, but the reasons behind them.  Historic Tax Credits, Enterprise Zones, Neighborhoods in Bloom, Tax Abatement and HUD incentives all play a role in revitalization and renovation.  Knowing where it is headed and which neighborhoods qualify is paramount in understand future values.

Ask us.  We know…..

Check out our page on the City Neighborhoods for more information.