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Your go-to resource for Richmond's residential real estate scene -- from our city's architectural record to today's deals -- plus vital info on national trends.
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15-home infill, street extension underway in Fulton Hill area - Richmond BizSense
“The ability to acquire a bigger chunk of land and control what is built there is big,” said Matt Jarreau, who's developing the infill and street extension with frequent collaborator Casey White.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Hickory Grove: Construction is about to begin on 150 homes in a new active-adult community in Hanover County richmond.com/realestate/f...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Justin Verlander, retired astronaut among top home sellers in region in December - Richmond BizSense
The month's top five sales included two houses doors away from each other near the Benedictine-Saint Gertrude campus in Goochland, one of which came in as the fourth-highest sale of 2025.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Plans advance for residential, office conversions of two East End church buildings on same street - Richmond BizSense
The church buildings on Fairmount Avenue are planned for a 17-unit apartment conversion and an office conversion that would involve social service delivery uses, according to city filings.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Two years later, RRHA-led apartments rehab on Grace St. remains 'preliminary' - Richmond BizSense
“It’s one of our more blighted buildings in downtown Richmond, and it’s getting more blighted because nobody’s paying attention to it,” said neighboring property owner Murry Pitts. “It’s going downhil...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Developer Harper Associates buys Manchester office building, will replace it with 100 apartments - Richmond BizSense
Harper paid $2.5 million for the Manchester Medical Center, a three-story building that had been used by nonprofit Capital Area Health Network at 101 Cowardin Ave. It'll be razed to make way for a fiv...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Richmond ranked a top housing market for 2026
Home sales and prices are expected to climb again, keeping RVA hot for another year.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Richmond's hot housing market cooled somewhat in 2025 richmond.com/news/local/b...
Richmond's hot housing market cooled somewhat in 2025
The average cost of a house in greater Richmond is now $441,000. The demand for houses still exceeds the supply, pushing prices upward.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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2617 East Franklin Street: ‘Our idea was to fix her up so she’s good for another 100 years’ richmond.com/realestate/f...
2617 East Franklin Street: ‘Our idea was to fix her up so she’s good for another 100 years’
Sometimes, people really do fall in love with a house at first sight. It happened to Tom Wilds and Genni Sasnett 13 years ago.
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January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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Open House: Richmond’s highest-priced home sales of 2025 - Richmond BizSense
The year in high-end home sales saw one of the largest purchase prices in metro Richmond in years, as well as plenty of transactions above the $3 million mark, including three off-market deals.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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3516 East Broad Street: A decades-long series of renovations has brought a historic property back to its original grandeur richmond.com/realestate/f...
3516 East Broad Street: A decades-long series of renovations has brought a historic property back to its original grandeur
Sometimes, it takes a while for an older, neglected house to come back to life. In the case of the sprawling Colonial Revival-style house at 3516 East Broad Street, it
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December 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Rocketts Landing site once eyed for 12-story tower now set for 6-floor apartment building - Richmond BizSense
“That's about all that’s left at Rocketts Landing after 20 years,” said Jason Vickers-Smith. “It's been a long time building that out (and we're) getting close to finishing it.”
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December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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210, 212 and 214 North 29 Street: ‘We were determined to save these three houses’
One day back in the mid-1980s, David Cooley was walking with his daughter to a playground in their Church Hill neighborhood when he saw “condemned” notices posted on three row
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December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Residential density dominates ongoing code refresh discussions
Planning Department officials have held 42 meetings with civic associations on the refresh.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Longtime residential brokerage Small & Associates rebrands as Park27 - Richmond BizSense
The name change coincides with the firm’s 40th year in business and is meant as a breakaway from what founder Chris Small described as old-school brokerages stuck in old ways.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Goochland estate where rejected subdivision was proposed tops November home sales - Richmond BizSense
A month after county supervisors denied the plan by a split vote, the 109-acre Serenity Farm estate sold to the couple who had proposed subdividing the property to add 23 more homes.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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510 Westview Avenue and 511 Granite Avenue: Two infill projects are underway in a busy section of the city’s West End richmond.com/realestate/f...
510 Westview Avenue and 511 Granite Avenue: Two infill projects are underway in a busy section of the city’s West End
Infill construction continues to heat up in the area around Richmond’s popular Libbie and Grove avenues, with two projects slated to replace homes that dated back to the 1940s and
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December 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Henrico board rejects plan for 300-plus homes beside closed landfill near Wyndham - Richmond BizSense
“This would be a great, well-thought, put-together project but for where it is located and but for the current reality of our school system,” Three Chopt Supervisor Misty Roundtree said before leading...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Richmond cultural heritage plan clears hurdle, but Robertson vows ‘long list of amendments’
“I’m not feeling comfortable that we’ve got enough direction.”
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December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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10-home infill rises at former Cowardin estate in Chimborazo - Richmond BizSense
“Over the past 15 years, I’ve probably flipped a couple hundred properties. But it’s getting challenging now to find good flips, because quite frankly we’ve (all) bought most of them already,” said Ke...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Mary Wingfield Scott: The Richmonder who changed how we see – and save – historic buildings richmond.com/realestate/f...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Henrico board rejects long-deferred subdivision plans near Wyndham, Highland Springs - Richmond BizSense
A rare pair of rezoning denials were handed down by the Henrico Board of Supervisors this month, including for a project near Wyndham that the board had deferred for three years.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Carriages at McCauley Park: Homebuyers are getting more active-adult options in King William County richmond.com/realestate/f...
Carriages at McCauley Park: Homebuyers are getting more active-adult options in King William County
More than 20 years ago, Hanover County-based Rogers-Chenault Inc. broke ground on the McCauley Park community, with hopes that it would attract first- and second-time homebuyers to King William County...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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N.J. investor spends $45M for second VUU-area apartment building - Richmond BizSense
The deal gives Conserve Holdings about 2,000 units in its portfolio, including a total of 327 units on that block of Brook Road. Last year the firm bought The Spectrum next door for nearly $20 million...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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‘This is BS’: Councilmembers frustrated by budget surplus a month after voting against lowering real estate taxes richmond.com/news/local/g...
‘This is BS’: Councilmembers frustrated by budget surplus a month after voting against lowering real estate taxes
Over a month after City Council first asked Mayor Avula’s administration about the city’s projected surplus, the administration said the city had taken in $22 million more than it spent.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM