The Wall Street Journal Features Albemarle County's Georgetown Farm: Listed at $17M in 2009, Now Asking $10.3M

It's a tough market everywhere for multi-million dollar properties, and while Charlottesville calls itself "A World-Class City," obviously we're not NYC (or even DC) and Albemarle County is not the pastoral equivalent of, say, The Hamptons.

Back in the good 'ole days, though, high-end properties traded faster and at more $$$.  Even in 2008, post-bubble but before the September collapse into The