Charlottesville real estate has proven stability and wonderful value. The stability comes from the University of Virginia and the value is in the cosmopolitan diversification of our past and present residents, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Teddy Roosevelt, Meriwether Lewis, George Rogers Clark, Gen. Sumter of South Carolina, Muhammad Ali, John Grisham, Jessica Lange, Sam Sheppard, Lee Majors, Kate Jackson, Sissy Spacek and the Dave Mathews Band.

Charlottesville Real Estate was recently voted the number one place to live in the Unites States by two formidable publications: USA Today & Frommer's Travel. Follow this perfect recipe on how a small Virginia city was able to earn these formidable accolades.

How does a small Central Virginia city of 60,000 people earn the respect as the number one place to live and work in the country? It's the Charlottesville real estate market! It's hot...hot...hot.

Charlottesville, Virginia real estate has been rocketing ever since it earned these accolades last spring. "The emails are coming in from all over the country," adds Toby Beavers, an internet savvy realtor and webmaster of Charlottesville Homes. "They all want to know what's so great about Charlottesville real estate. Very few know a thing about the Charlottesville area real estate market...or even Virginia"

Why then do they ask or care? Simple... Take a two hundred year old western outpost add to this 4 future presidents (Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Tyler) and in 1815 you had one of the finest Georgian towns in the new United States.

Charlottesville real estate was a great deal back then too, as Peter Jefferson (Thomas' father) and Nicholas Lewis (Merriwether's father) would have told you (but maybe not). After making fortunes on Albemarle County real estate they hastily sped through the uncharted Blue Ridge Mountain passes acting as surveyors but buying up much of the choice lands in Ohio and Kentucky. At the time, they also owned massive amounts of Virginia land too.

Then combine the bold, scientific expeditions of Lewis & Clark and building of the University of Virginia, which is currently the number 1 public university (Princeton Review)in the country and we are baking! Now let's turn it up a notch and combine that with 2 of America's top 100 hospitals in the country; a very low crime rate; affordable cost of living; and we are cooking hot! Bam...Bam....Bam...

Throw in the unpollinated, clear Blue Ridge Mountain air; a large array of holistic healers; a 4 Star ski resort (Wintergreen); a 5 Star Orient Express Hotel (Keswick Hall), originally founded by Laura Ashley; and Charlottesville real estate is starting to smell like Emeril's kitchen!

Now for the topping...4 complete seasons planned just as God wanted them to be; wonderful warm southern hospitality with an urbane, cosmopolitan flair; lots and lots of old money; superb public schools (free!!!); a new space age airport with direct flights to Newark and Ft. Lauderdale; 3 fox hunts; exquisite horse farms and stately Georgian Virginia estates sprinkled everywhere; a serious Little League complex donated by prolific author, John Grisham; and intelligent starlets like Rita Dove (our National Poet Laureate), Sissy Spacek and Rita Mae Brown (mystery writer) running around doing good deeds for our numerous charities!

Wow...This cake is ready to fly.... Now, you can either brag about this recipe or you can sell it! I prefer to sell Charlottesville real estate.