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Our Nest Report Blog is a platform to educate the public about the changing real estate markets in Charlottesville, New River Valley, and Hampton Roads. Our team of agents contributes timely market updates and statistics, as well as hyper-local news and information for each community.

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Live Where You Love: Nelson County, Virginia

  We’re venturing into Nelson County for the next episode in our Live Where You Love video series. If you haven’t been to Nelson recently, there’s a lot going on.  Between the increased tourism from the Brew Ridge Trail, the Virginia Wine Trail and Wintergreen to Nelson’s sheer beauty, it’s really an amazing part of our [...]

Charlottesville Real Estate Market Update: Q4 2011

We apologize for the slight delay with this Q4 report.  Fortunately, it’s been a very busy last couple of weeks at Nest.  Between a lot of activity in the Charlottesville real estate market, adding a few more fantastic agents to our team, and a few other exciting projects in the works, this took a little [...]

Are You Exceptional? Nest Realty is Hiring!

We’ve been very fortunate to continue to grow over the past few years…and it’s time to add a new member to our team.  We’re hiring an Engagement and Brand Manager to join our Nest.  The job is part brand management, part content director, and part marketing manager.  I’m not going to bore you with a [...]

Charlottesville New Home Prices On The Rise

  Over the last few years, we’ve consistently had tidbits of positive news here and there: interest rates creeping down, a slight uptick in sales, a bump in consumer confidence… As we know, since around 2007 the majority of real estate news has been negative.  That being said, there is a bit of optimism in [...]

Live Where You Love: Northern Albemarle

Our next video in Nest Realty’s Live Where You Love series takes us to Northern Albemarle and 29 North.  Over the last 20 years, Northern Albemarle has seen explosive growth with commercial, retail, and residential development.  Convenience and proximity to services play a major role in people’s decisions to live in this part of Albemarle [...]

Welcome Aboard! Our Nest is Growing…

Nest Realty is proud to announce 2 exciting additions to our Charlottesville office.  Robert Russo and Janice Kavanagh have both joined Nest and we couldn’t be happier to have them on our team. You can get to know Robert and Janice a little better by checking out their bios on our web site. If you [...]

Charlottesville’s Real Estate Market Snapshot: November 2011

Overall, the November 2011real estate market in Charlottesville performed about as we expected.  Overall, total year-over-year sales were down (from 174 to 150). Median sales prices in the Charlottesville MSA were also down…by about 3% from November 2010. There was some positive news, though: the three-year total sales trend is now slightly positive…meaning that sales in [...]

Rising Rents Could Lead to Housing Recovery

As we turn the calendar to December, the Virginia real estate market starts to slow.  Buyers’ priorities shift from scouring their favorite real estate web site for that perfect 3-bedroom cottage to reindeer, holiday shopping, and New Year’s celebrations. For the last several years, we’ve looked at market data and tried to grasp onto something [...]

Coming Soon: Nest Realty’s ‘Live Where You Love’ Video Series

  At Nest, we’ve been big advocates of using video to help educate customers and clients.  We’ve tried a lot of different video ideas over the last few years: property tours, real estate education videos, neighborhood videos, and even a video about Nest Realty’s values. We decided a few months ago to dive a little [...]

Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who has worked with us over the last year. Thank you to our clients. Thank you to our inspectors. Thank you to our closing agents. Thank you to our lenders. Thank you to our families. Thank you to our photographers, and designers, and printing companies, and all the other folks who [...]