Kate grew up in parsonages in Arkansas and Missouri, then moved on to student housing in Lexington, Kentucky; Tokyo, Japan; and Nashville, Tennessee. Homeownership was a foreign idea to her when she took a real estate class during a semester break at Vanderbilt in 2003. Within the year she was a practicing real estate agent. Within two years she bought her first house and two years later she became a real estate investor.
Kate jumped into real estate full time after graduating from Vanderbilt Divinity School in 2005. Empowering her clients to buy their first homes, become real estate investors, renovate their properties, relocate to their “perfect fit” neighborhoods, negotiate contracts, and effectively market their homes gives her great joy. Additionally, Kate enjoys analyzing data to effectively make sound investment decisions. Be it current market values for a given neighborhood, appreciation over a number of years, absorption rates, or investment risks and benefits, Kate can make a spreadsheet for it. She balances this with the knowledge that where one makes a home is an intensely personal decision that does not always fit within any given logic.
Kate has called Nashville home since 2001, and East Nashville has been her ‘hood since 2005. She focuses her expertise on Nashville’s urban residential neighborhoods, mainly East Nashville, Inglewood, Germantown, Sylvan Park, Hillsboro/Belmont, and Green Hills. She loves neighborhoods that have their own local restaurants, coffee shops, sidewalks, festivals, parks, and character.
Kate has been an agent at Village Real Estate Services Hillsboro office throughout her career. Village is a locally-owned Nashville company with over 150 agents in 3 urban offices. In the summer of 2010 the Hillsboro office became the real estate office with the highest market share in all of Davidson County. Part of what drew Kate to Village is the Village Fund, Village’s own non-profit foundation that gives to local community organizations. Twice Kate received the Top Village Fund Contributor Award. Kate has earned the Council of Residential Specialists (CRS) designation and won the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors Silver Award (2008, 2009).
In a previous life Kate directed a Japanese language and culture immersion program called Mori No Ike at Concordia Language Villages. Besides historic homes, she is passionate about her family, her two Springer Spaniels, and her garden. She is also a founding board member of OutCentral Cultural Center.