Real Estate Representation (Finally) Evolves in Virginia
Q: (Single Agent) Dual Agency - Who Benefits? A: The Realtor July 1 2012 will be a day that many buyers, sellers (and real estate agents, I'd wager) learn that the current world of real estate representation is (supposed to be) about representing clients' best…
What are Your Favorite Bills in this Year’s General Assembly?
These are the bills I'm tracking on Richmond Sunlight - bill ranging from real estate licensing to the castle doctrine to eminent domain - and quite a few more. The Charlottesville real estate market has gotten busier since the General Assembly's session started so my…
HB 1907 – Agency in Virginia, Disclosures and More
HB 1907 is a big bill; I've talked about it before, discussed how and why single agent dual agency is bad; when we founded Nest we made a policy against single agent dual agency .... No Dual Agency. To my knowledge, we are the only…
How Much is the Buyer Broker Fee?
Update March 2017 - all my youtube videos prior to 2012 have disappeared. Darn it. No matter how closely you look, you may not know how much your Buyer's Agent may be getting paid ... "How much is the commission on that house?" That question…
Prepping to Buy a House in Charlottesville
Transcription: Hey, Jim Duncan with RealCentralVA.com and Nest Realty Group here in Charlottesville, Virgina. It is the first week of December, 2009 and that means one thing to me at least. It means that people are starting to think about buying and/or selling homes in…
Blog Wayback – Why Use a Realtor – Decoding NAR-Speak
Blog Wayback again ... From November 2007: Why Use a Realtor - decoding NAR-Speak Inspired by these two comments on the BHB, today I'm going to respond to/pick apart the National Association of Realtors' Why use a Realtor? page. I hope that few consumers had…
Wrapping Up Tuesday’s Radio Appearance
We covered a lot of ground in twenty minutes or so on Tuesday on Coy Barefoot's Charlottesville-Right Now! show on WINA. This is a summary, with links, to the topics we discussed. Each time I do a radio show, I realize how I really enjoy…
Posts with Enduring Interest – Take Two – Just for Buyers
Last year I wrote this post - Posts with Enduring Value - and I have referred to it many, many times in conversations and emails with clients and potential clients. As it was time to update the post, I thought I would do one post…
Choosing the Right Buyer’s Agent in Charlottesville
Last week's article in the Daily Progress was good (edit: now-broken link), but as I told the journalist at the time - there is so much more I wanted to go into that article, and newspapers are so limited by what they can offer in print.…