If you know us at Nest Realty, you know we’re always looking for a better way to serve our customers and clients. We’re big into empowering our clients. We spend a lot of time with real estate data. We try new home listing techniques. And we embrace the power of the web. (Just to name [...]
Blacksburg and Charlottesville have a lot in common. Beautiful mountains. Wonderful outdoor activities. College towns. But now, they’ve got one more thing in common: they’ll both have a Nest Realty office! We’re proud to announce that Nest Realty is expanding west…and bringing our real estate services to the New River Valley. Encompassing the counties of Montgomery, [...]
So, I was sitting in Staples Barber Shop last week, waiting to get a trim and a photo of Obi-Wan Kenobi on the front of USA Today caught my eye. (Disclaimer: I’m a bit of a Star Wars fan, but that’s besides the point). Turns out the photo was a lead-in to an article on [...]
We launched the Nest site in February of 2008. It’s amazing how time flies. Over the last 15 months, we’ve gotten a great response to the site. After all, the site was built based on years of feedback from our clients. Since we’ve launched the site, we’ve also received some great suggestions to make the [...]
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 .
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 [...]
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.
The New York Times highlighted Albemarle County’s Bundoran Farm this week. For those of you not quite familiar with Bundoran, it’s a 2300-acre Preservation Development located in southern Albemarle County. Bundoran encompasses everything that is good about preserving the land and using it’s resources wisely.
We’re proud to announce that Nest has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Inman News Innovator Awards in the ‘Most Innovative Brokerage or Franchise’ category. The winners will be announced at the Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco, which is held from August 5-7. Other nominees in the category include: @properties, Better [...]
This isn’t groundbreaking stuff for those of us in the social media space, but it is for developers and neighborhoods in the Charlottesville area. There is one development in Albemarle County that is embracing this philosophy, with a little bit of guidance from Nest. More to come … Ask us how we can help you [...]
