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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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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 [...]

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 [...]

Jim Duncan Named to ‘Real Estate’s 50 Most Influential Online’ in 2009

Congratulations to Nest Realty’s Jim Duncan for being named to Inman News’ list of ‘Real Estate’s 50 Most Influential Online’ last week. 
According to Inman News: 
This list of individuals selected for this report includes real estate agents and brokers, technologists, economists, enthusiasts and analysts. They are luminaries in the online world of real estate whose insight [...]

Albemarle Family Favorite Awards

We’re honored to have been named the #3 ‘ Favorite Real Estate Company by Albemarle Family.  It’s pretty exciting to be in our first full year and get this type of unsolicited recognition.
And as Jim Duncan notes on his RealCentralVA blog:
1 and 2 were Roy Wheeler and Real Estate III respectively. Frankly, I’m pretty pleased [...]

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 Awarded HP Realtor Technology Award

Nest Realty was awarded with an HP Realtor Technology Award last week at the National Association of Realtors conference in San Diego.  HP honored 5 brokerages across the country that used technology in and out of the office to gain a competitive advantage.  Other winners included brokers from California, Ohio, Idaho, and Minnesota.
In August, Nest Realty [...]

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.

Nest Realty Featured in The Hook

Check out this week’s issue of The Hook.  Nest Realty is featured in the cover story titled, “Survival of the Fittest: Adapting, Evolving, and Thriving in A Rough Housing Market

 
 
 
 
 
 
Feathering their own Nest now
When times were good in the real estate market, there was arguably no better career than real estate agent: bidding wars, way-above-assessment [...]