My Value to Buyers and Sellers

Bio

“You ain’t from around here,” as they say around Nashville.

While that’s true, I’ve lived in Nashville for a lifetime now.

My outside-in perspective of the area gives me a unique vision of life here.

I’m a seeker of Nashville’s uniqueness. I go to neighborhoods and weird places locals would never go.

I ride the bus when it makes sense (ask a Nashville native the last time they did that). I go to the downtown library. I love places that locals love. However, I love places they’ve never been to.

When it comes to real estate, I can look at a neighborhood without local assumptions and see what’s possible.

This curiosity came from growing up in five different places. I still say New Orleans and St. Louis are where I’m from.

As an adult, my wife and I moved three times before landing in Nashville. We thought we’d be here about three or four years. That was 30 years ago.

I know what it feels like to leave a place you love, and have to create a new home and life in an unfamiliar place. I remember what it was like leaving a city my family loved (New Orleans). Finding my footing in a new grade school (I went to three). I remember as an adult what it was like to find a dentist, a bank, a dry cleaner, a handyman. And a restaurant that was our hang.

Not being from around here, I believe I have a perspective of the uniqueness, quirkiness and greatness that is Nashville better than those who’ve lived here all their lives.

Before becoming a Realtor®, I spent 30 years as an award-winning creative director in advertising agencies around the country. My clients included some of the biggest brands in the world, as well as those down the street.

It’s trite to say buying or selling a home is the biggest financial decision in your life. However, it’s true.

I believe it’s more than a transaction, it’s intensely personal. And that’s how I work with you.

Your home holds your family, your holidays, graduations, first steps, your best times and other times.

It is the repository of your memories and everyday life.

And more than anything, whether you are buying or selling, I’m here to help families create new memories.

Outside of real estate, my life revolves around:

• My wife, Linda

• Our Australian Cattle Dog, Yang

• Seeing the latest indie film at The Belcourt Theatre

• Eating at our favorite high-brow or low-brow spot

• Experiencing live music in one of Nashville’s out-of-the-mainstream music venues

I also play keyboards in a cover band, the B-Sides, try to speak French (a 20-year struggle), travel to Santa Fe, New Orleans, St. Louis, France and places beyond. Some people say I’m a wine snob. Really, I’m just a wine nerd. I also write screenplays when I can.

I volunteer with:

• Greater Nashville Realtors – Government Affairs Policy Committee (vice chair, 2025)

• W.O. Smith Community Music School – music teacher for 28 years, past board member

• Christ The King School Council/Board

• Christ The King Catholic Church – Haiti Ministry, Lector, Utility Infielder

Past organizations:

• Sexual Assault Center – board member

• American Marketing Association – board member

• Nashville Wine Auction For The American Cancer Society – ex officio board member/volunteer

• Mentor with Nashville Entrepreneur Center

•Alliance Française Nashville – board member

Wilson Group Real Estate is Nashville’s premier, independently owned and woman owned real estate firm. We help buyers get the most with their purchase and sellers get the most for their property. The Wilson Group also works with investors for commercial purchases and has a strong property management division.

The firm is made up of a group of approximately 100 agents, all of whom provide concierge service before, during and after your purchase or sale.

Being an independent firm, we’re able to make decisions quickly and effectively to the benefit of our clients. We’re not beholden to a corporate, Wall Street-owned conglomerate, and our leadership and staff are responsive and supportive to our agents, and ultimately, our clients.

• While boutique in size, our sales volume is repeatedly among the top firms in Nashville, besting firms 10 times our size
• Locations in Green Hills and Sylvan Park
• Our CEO, Christie Wilson, named one of Nashville’s top women CEOs
• Named among the “Top 25 Women Owned Business” and “Top 25 Residential Real Estate Firms” in Nashville by the Nashville Business Journal
• Named one of the “Best Places to Work” and “Best In Business” by The Nashville Business Journal