To thank our clients for being a part of the Nest Community, we recently conducted a room makeover! We partnered with some of our favorite locally-owned retailers: Carpet Plus, Artful Lodger, Circa, and U-Fab. We asked our clients for pictures of their dining rooms and eating areas that were in need of a spruce up.…
Take advantage of your last chance to pick apples from Graves Mountain Apple Orchard! Located at Graves Mountain Lodge off Route 670, the orchard is the perfect place to celebrate the onset of fall and enjoy the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains! This year, Graves Mountain Orchard is celebrating 45 years of its Apple Harvest. Graves Mountain…
Our second stop our Builder Spotlight is Echelon Homes. For over 20 years Jeff Robertson and Echelon Homes have been creating stunning residences. Their attention to detail, efficient building process, and commitment to adhere to the Earthcraft and Energy Star building standards sets them apart. Echelon Homes is proud to debut their newest home, The…
This week marked the first official Realtor Open House for Charlottesville’s newest community, Lochlyn Hill. Attendees checked out the views, walked homesites, and talked with Nest Realtors Jim Duncan and Keith Davis about the vision for the new neighborhood. The five local builders who will be constructing homes in Lochlyn Hill were also on hand to…
Nest nabs national ranking for the second year in a row. We’re thrilled to have made it onto Inc. Magazine’s Inc.5000 list for the second consecutive year. The magazine’s annual national ranking of privately owned businesses creates a list of the top 5,000 U.S. companies based on their percentage of growth over the last three years,…
Nest’s “Meet the Agent” blog series is back for 2014! We think we have some pretty awesome agents here at Nest and we want you to have the opportunity to get to know them too. In our first post of the series for 2014, we sat down with Charlottesville Nest agent, Tom Raney. Find out…
Preparing a country property for sale is a little more complicated than just staging a house. It’s ALL about first impressions. And nothing says more about the stewardship of a property than the condition of the pasture and fencing. Well-maintained fencing and nicely kept fields are often the first impression one gets as they enter a property…
I spend a lot of time at the city and county offices, for all sorts of reasons for both buyers and sellers. It’s part of the process as a residential agent. If you’re a seller, you should be getting permits for any work you do that requires permitting. Most municipalities have permitting requirements online, easily…
2014 promises to be an interesting year in the Charlottesville area real estate market. The market will be influenced by wide array of external factors. One of those factors that will be influecing the marketplace, is the impact of the retiring “Baby Boomer” generation. Charlottesville Home, a new, local lifestyle and home resource publication, published…
A hearty congratulations to the Bob Hughes Team for receiving runner up recognition in the 2013 Best of C-VILLE survey in the Best Charlottesville Realtor category. We’d like to thank Bob and Laura for their hard work, creativity (see their latest ad to the left) and levity. Way to go!