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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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The Latest: Homebuyer Tax Credit Not Extended

Check out Nest Realty’s Jim Duncan’s post on the tax credit extension.  The approved extension was inadvertently reported by Inman News… and many were hopeful that the extension would, in fact, occur.  However, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.
Stay tuned to the Nest Report for more updates.

Nest’s Site Evolves – Searching for Homes in Charlottesville

Our goal is to continue to have the most functional, most useful and most used real estate search site in Charlottesville; these improvements are a step towards meeting that goal. … New listings are now tagged (within last 14 days, can search for new listings) As a buyer/browser/interested consumer, what do you want to see on our site?

… There are quite a few back-end improvements that do not necessarily affect how you search for homes in the Charlottesville MLS, but rest assured, they make the entire site experience better .

Jim Duncan is one of the founding partners of Nest, Associate Broker and is a Charlottesville Realtor who writes about Charlottesville real estate trends at RealCentralVA , Life in Crozet at RealCrozetVA and occasionally at the national real estate magazineAgentGenius .

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Top Crozet Neighborhoods for Holiday Lights

Looking for some great Holiday Lights this year?  Let Charlottesville’s most innovative real estate brokerage save you a little bit of time.  Our Realtors done some legwork by scouting out some of the best neighborhoods in the Charlottesville area for Holiday Lights.  We’ll spotlight a few ‘Best Of’ lists over the next several days, but we’ll get [...]

Nest’s Priorities Mesh with Charlottesville Buyers’ and Sellers’ Needs

This chart, from the National Association of Realtors’ 2009 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, affirms Nest Realty Groups’ priorities. Does Print Work? Real Estate Agent : Higher Standards Our agents… • Have a minimum of three years, full-time experience as a Realtor • Work full-time as a Realtor • Have earned their Broker’s License • Are actively involved in the local Realtor Association • Absolutely, positively do not practice dual agency

Website : (Nest’s) site is better in terms of design, usability and brand coherence than almost all big broker sites.

… Jim Duncan is one of the founding partners of Nest, Associate Broker and is a Charlottesville Realtor who writes at RealCentralVA , RealCrozetVA and AgentGenius .

Welcome Aboard Deborah and Laura!

 
We’d like to welcome our newest agents, Deborah Rutter and Laura Winn Smith, to the Nest team.
First licensed in Maine, Deborah joins the team with a successful real estate track record based on repeat and referral business.   She brings another analytical mind to Nest and is a great addition to our growing team.
Laura Winn Smith began her [...]

Nest Realty’s Jim Duncan to Speak at Upcoming NAR Conference

Jim Duncan will be speaking at next week’s National Association of Realtors Conference in San Diego, CA on the ‘Future of the MLS.’  The discussion will be focused on what next for MLS and MLS related technologies. 
Check out the first snippet of Jim’s presentation.

Nest Realty’s Amy Webb Featured on CBS 19 ‘Blog of the Week’

Check out Nest Realty’s own Amy Webb, whose blog (Amy’s Yard) was picked as the ‘Blog of the Week’ by CBS19. 
Click here to follow Amy on Twitter.