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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 [...]

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 [...]

Charlottesville Real Estate Market Statistics

Now let’s take a look at some market statistics for single family detached homes in the City of Charlottesville.  In real estate, we talk a lot about ‘Location. Location. Location.’  Typically, property values hold their values more in areas that are located closer to urban and employment centers.  Charlottesville is definitely the cultural and economic [...]

Charlottesville Real Estate Market Stats: One Year Moving Median

At Nest Realty, we always spend time analyzing Charlottesville real estate market statistics to see what has happened, what is happening, and what may happen within our local market.  We’ve been taking a look at moving averages and moving medians in our market recently.  It’s always telling to look back at these charts and see [...]

Charlottesville Neighborhood Market Report: Brookwood

Brookwood Single Family Homes
While Brookwood is known for its proximity to Downtown Charlottesville, it’s also becoming known in the real estate world for its brisk sales pace.  While the majority of sales have been attached homes, there are still single family options available.
Detached sales peaked last year with 16 detached closings, after a strong 7 [...]

Nest TV: Charlottesville Real Estate Area Video

We’ve completed our second in a series of videos spotlighting the different areas throughout Charlottesville and Central Virginia.
Our first video focused on Crozet.  Now it’s on to Charlottesville.

Nest Realty Group’s Mid-Year 2009 Market Report

One of Nest Realty’s founding principles is to provide full transparency of real estate information. To that end, we aim to be the definitive source for real estate data, information and analysis for the Charlottesville/Albemarle region. The Nest Report is a quarterly report that will offer data analysis and market forecasts through the eyes of [...]

Charlottesville Ranks #4 Best Place to Find a Job

As reported by Kiplinger.com:
Big, stable employers plus the UVA student body add up to paying customers for the small businesses that give Charlottesville its spunk. An eclectic mix of more than 150 shops, galleries and restaurants line the historic downtown pedestrian mall. For example, one-year-old Siips Wine and Champagne Bar has already become a hot [...]

City of Charlottesville Real Estate Sales Trends

I was running some sales trends on detached home sales in the City of Charlottesville over the weekend and noticed this interesting graph.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
First of all, this graph shows detached home sales and price per foot in the City of Charlottesville through June 11th of each year (2006-2009).  It’s interesting to see that sales have dropped off [...]