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Nest Realty's blog, The Nest Report, is a platform to educate the public about the changing Charlottesville real estate market, including community news, industry updates, market reports, and all of the great things Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and Central Virginia have to offer.
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Author Archives: Jonathan Kauffmann

Principal Broker and Owner of Nest Realty Group. I’m a full-time real estate professional specializing in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. I’m a strong believer in the power of the internet and its role in the real estate industry.

700 Locust Avenue Featured in The Hook’s ‘On The Block’

Nest Realty’s Laura Winn Smith’s listing on Locust Avenue has been featured in this week’s edition of The Hook’s On The Block section.
This home is conveniently located in the Martha Jefferson neighborhood of Charlottesville, just steps from the Martha Jefferson site and Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.
Check out what The Hook had to say about this gem…
The house [...]

Good News for the Charlottesville Real Estate Market?

With the exception of a small few, every homeowner in Charlottesville and throughout the country is looking for positive real estate news.  As compared to 2009 – when there wasn’t much – we’re starting to see some good news starting to trickle in…and that’s a good thing.
REAL Trends just reported that Long and Foster reported [...]

Nest Realty Spotlighted in Realtor Magazine

I’d like to congratulate the entire Nest Realty team (and those new Charlottesville Realtors that will be officially with us very soon) for being recognized and spotlighted in Realtor Magazine. (I haven’t actually seen the print version, so we’re linking the online version).
Since Realtor Magazine interviewed us in early 2010, we’ve continued our growth with [...]

Charlottesville Market Snapshot: January 2010 Albemarle Detached Homes

Albemarle County detached home sales continue to suffer a bit, according to January Charlottesville home sale stats.  Average sale price and median sales price fell from both 2008 and 2009 levels, while Days on Market increased over 42 days from 2009 levels.
However, there were some positive signs.  January sales of Albemarle single family homes increased [...]

Nest Realty Acquires Summit Realty

From the news wire…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (Feb. 8, 2010) – Charlottesville-based Nest Realty Group today announced its acquisition of Summit Realty Company. The move combines two of Charlottesville’s most successful real estate firms and expands the 1-year-old Nest Realty team to 14 full-time real estate professionals. It also paves the way for Nest to expand its services from [...]

Nest Realty Announces Tom’s Garden

While Central Virginia is in the deep freeze at the moment, some of us are dreaming of Springtime, or more specifically, our Spring gardens and the fresh veggies they yield!   With that in mind, the Nest team is thrilled to introduce Tom’s Garden, an initiative to support and fund Community Gardening in the Charlottesville-Albemarle [...]

Charlottesville and Albemarle Real Estate Focus: Inventory Levels

I was watching a great video recently featuring real estate guru Steve Harney.  Steve is a mastermind in real estate trends…and even more masterful in taking complicated economic data and simplifying it for everyone to understand (including me, the Uva English major).  I’ve had the fortune to see him speak twice in the last six [...]

Charlottesville Condominium Market Statistics

Of all of the real estate options in the Country, condominiums may have been hit the hardest over the last few years.  As the Charlottesville real estate market heated up in 2004 and 2005, developers and investors swarmed to purchase apartment buildings to convert them to Condominiums in hopes of cashing in on the real [...]

Murray Elementary Raffling off Taylor Swift Tickets

From Amy Webb’s blog, Amy’s Yard:

Yes T-Swift fans ( and their parents), you read that correctly: there is still a chance to get your hands on tickets to the concert of the year!

Here is the scoop:
I am the co-chair of Bingo Night at Virginia L. Murray Elementary School in Ivy.  We have [...]

Help Save the Crozet Library

Many of you have heard about the possibility that the Crozet library could be shut down because of budget cuts.  Jim Duncan has reported it on his Crozet real estate blog, RealCrozetVA, and his Charlottesville real estate blog, RealCentralVA.  You can read more about it The Hook, Charlottesville Newsplex, and Daily Progress.
One of the commenters on [...]