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Author Archives: Jim Duncan

Jim has been a Realtor for over seven years, is a stauch advocate of his clients’ positions and needs and has been recognized as a thought leader within the industry. He currently writes at his blog, http://www.realcentralva.com, http://www.realcrozetva.com and http://www.agentgenius.com.

Like Nest Brokers, The Nest Thermostat Never Stops Learning

Who knew a thermostat could be: 1) Beautiful? 2) Adaptive? 3) Disruptive? A bit like Nest Realty. Jim Duncan is one of the founding partners of Nest, Associate Broker and is a Charlottesville Realtor who writes at RealCentralVA.com & RealCrozetVA.com.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you to all who attended Nest’s party on Friday. We are humbled and grateful for your support, your presence and your thinking of us. We look forward every year to the opportunity to say “thank you” to our friends and clients, and this year was particularly special. We moved the location just [...]

Nest’s 3rd Quarter 2011 Market Report

Nest Realty’s Charlottesville MSA Real Estate Market Report (PDF) We pride ourselves on real estate market analysis and in-depth analysis and reporting of market data. Please read our most recent market report and let us know what questions you have. Every market – from street to neighborhood to zip code to county – is different [...]

Getting Ready for Nest Realty Group’s Fall Party

Barack Obama is Coming to Charlottesville This Friday

We know that you’re going to be short on time, as the gates open at 5pm at the Charlottesville Pavilion for your rally with Tom Perriello .

…Assuming you arrive at our lovely airport, CHO , and that you’ll have a fun motorcade which won’t affect Charlottesville traffic on a Friday afternoon at all … you’ll probably make good time getting to Downtown Charlottesville. … We read that you like chili and pizza , and while there are great pizza places on the Downtown Mall , Fridays are Chicken and Dumplings day at Eppies, and it’s one of our favorite meals. … The Avett Brothers played there last week, and the Pavilion has hosted Willie Nelson, Widespread Panic, Crosby Stills and Nash, Sheryl Crow and Garrison Keillor, but we think you’ll be able to hold your own.

We Love Nest Realty!

Sometimes it’s nice to hear from clients . We love, love, love how it presents on Nest Realty’s website !  The photos you took really added what was needed. Good job.

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 .

Dunlora Neighborhood versus the Deer

This is an interesting dilemma in a suburban environment : With a proposal to cull deer before their community association, some Dunlora residents are hoping they’ll be able to keep bow hunters out of the bucolic neighborhood. … “We do need to limit deer because, in addition to being a problem for people by eating landscape plants and being in the roadways, deer are impacting other species, such as birds that require low-growing plants for habitat. The best way to accomplish this would be for people to learn to live among the coyotes that have moved into Virginia now that the bigger carnivores are mostly gone,” she wrote. The Dunlora neighborhood in Charlottesville is known for being a place with trees, slightly larger lots and spacing between neighbors.

Things to Do in Charlottesville – Go to an Orchard

In this case, local strawberries at Chiles Orchard in Crozet. These are some of the orchards in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna and Greene: And besides, spending an hour or so with the family is a much ore fulfilling experience than going to the grocery store.

… Thanks to BuyLocalVirginia.org, these are some of the orchards in Albemarle, Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene and Nelson : Carter Mountain Orchard Chiles Peach Orchard Dickie Brothers Orchard Drumheller’s Orchard Fitzgerald’s Orchard Flippin-Seaman, Inc. Fruit Hill Orchard Henley’s Orchard Saunders Brothers Farm Market Seamans’ Orchard Silver Creek Orchards Spring Valley Orchard The Apple Shed Vintage Virginia Apples

Why Don’t Nest Realtors do Single Agent Dual Agency?

The Virginia Association of Realtors standard Buyer Brokerage form says as much : Because of the Broker’s dual representation in such a transaction, Buyer understands that Buyer and the seller have the responsibility of making their own decisions as to what terms are to be included in any purchase agreement . … The Code of the Commonwealth of Virginia says : “Designated agent” or “designated representative” means a licensee who has been assigned by a principal or supervising broker to represent a client when a different client is also represented by such principal or broker in the same transaction. “Dual agent” or “dual representative” means a licensee who has a brokerage relationship with both seller and buyer, or both landlord and tenant, in the same real estate transaction. … Just a clarification in light of the recent Realtor Magazine article on Nest Realty and Jonathan Kauffman : I require that all of our agents work full time and have a minimum of three years of full-time real estate experience.