ActiveFor Sale
$1,290,000
1400 Rustic Road
West Jefferson, NC
Regency Properties > John Blevins, Broker-in-Charge
I’m John Blevins, Broker-in-Charge at Regency Properties in West Jefferson. I took the BIC seat on February 17, 2025. My job is my agents’ production: contracts reviewed, problems solved, closings supervised. I’m GRI, SRS, and ABR designated, and I still carry my own book too.
In my first year in the seat, this firm closed 140 transactions for $44.6M, and I closed 13 sales for $3.9M — 76 career closings for $13.7M in all. My personal numbers aren’t bigger because they’re not supposed to be. My scoreboard is my agents’ closings. And yes, I still take clients. If you’re buying or selling in the High Country, you can hire your local broker. Call me.
Why Regency Properties
Choosing the right broker matters. With Regency Properties you get years of High Country experience and dedicated buyer and seller support, and you get the Broker-in-Charge himself in your corner, helping you move through each step with clarity and confidence.
ActiveFor Sale
$1,290,000
1400 Rustic Road
West Jefferson, NC
ActiveFor Sale
$1,100,000
1701 NC Highway 16 N
Crumpler, NC
ActiveLand
$35,000
Lot 45 Sonterra Drive
Lansing, NC
Listing information via the High Country MLS. Full property search powered by iHomefinder through Regency Properties.
I grew up in the highest elevations of the Lansing area. My people are from here, and from just over the state line in the Whitetop community in Virginia. These mountains are home in a way that's hard to explain to anyone who didn't grow up in them.
Before real estate, I spent 25 years in manufacturing. During those years I also served this county in about every way a citizen can. I sat on the Lansing Board of Aldermen. I chaired the Ashe County Planning Board. I served on the board of the Partnership of Ashe, and I chaired the Ashe County Homebuilders Association. I even spent four years as a congressional lobbyist, carrying this county's concerns to Washington.
Somewhere along the way I acted in a local independent film, appeared in an episode of Weekend in the Carolinas, and worked as a virtual tour guide for a Chamber of Commerce project showing off this area. I love this place, and I don't mind saying so on camera.
Home is West Jefferson now. My wife, Amy, and I live here with our three fur-kids, Bella, Oliver, and Owen. When we're not working, we travel every chance we get.
Twenty years, in the order it happened. Every stop on this road taught me something I use in real estate now. (Earlier still: Quality Manager at Smiths Aerospace, and Industrial Engineering Manager at Leviton Manufacturing.)
I ran regulated fuel operations across two sites and three counties. I coordinated the installation of a 30,000-gallon fuel distribution site, recovered $100K in delinquent fuel contracts, and trained regional emergency responders. It is also where I learned heating systems and their inspection requirements firsthand — the mechanical side of a house, not just the paperwork. The skill it built: carrying real compliance and safety responsibility, where the records have to be right.
Thirteen years in a highly regulated aerospace plant. I ran about 20 audits a year with no major FAA or DNV findings, led root-cause and corrective-action work, and completed an analysis that contributed to about $21.9 million in avoided scrap. I also built the site's training system and personally trained more than 300 employees. The skills it built: reading evidence, finding the real cause, and writing findings people can act on.
I represented manufacturing interests on Export-Import Bank legislation, working with congressional offices and staff. The skill it built: negotiation and advocacy — making a case to people who don't have to agree with you.
I established an accredited workforce-development partnership with the NC Community College System, and in 2018 I testified before a Congressional committee on how the training model worked. The skill it built: building programs across organizations, and presenting complex work plainly to senior leaders.
Former Lansing Alderman (2017–2018) — in 2018 I wrote all of the Town of Lansing's ordinances in preparation for codification. Former Chair of the Ashe County Planning Board (2005), where subdivision and land-use decisions for the county get made. Former board member of the Partnership of Ashe, and PAC Trustee and Program Chair for the Ashe County Homebuilders Association. The skill it built: land use, ordinances, and permitting — the same ground I walk with buyers and land sellers today.
Long before I was a broker, I was a buyer. The Ashe County deed books show eleven purchases and ten sales under my name from 2003 to 2023. I bought my first home in 2003 and renovated it. Lot 12 in Jefferson: bought 2015, sold 2016. Lot 13: bought 2018, sold 2020. A West Jefferson acre: bought 2004, sold 2015. Piney Creek tracts, Chestnut Hill, Jefferson lots — bought, worked, and sold, one after another. The skill it built: seeing what a property really needs, and what it honestly costs to fix, before anybody signs anything.
I earned my North Carolina real estate broker license (#322850) and joined Regency Properties. Since then: 76 closings and $13,690,850 in sold volume (HCAR MLS records, January 2020–October 2026). Designations: ABR · GRI · SRS · C2EX · CREN.
Alongside my first years in brokerage, I supported enterprise analytics, data validation, and audits across nine manufacturing facilities. The skill it built: market-grade data analysis — the same discipline behind my monthly High Country market reports.
I became Broker-in-Charge of Regency Properties.
In my first year as BIC, the firm closed 140 transactions for $44.6M in sold volume under my leadership (HCAR MLS records, February 17, 2025 – February 16, 2026). I oversee the firm's brokers and compliance, and I still take my own clients.
Per HCAR MLS records (January 2020–October 2026): 76 closings and $13,690,850 in sold volume over my career — and in my first year as Broker-in-Charge (February 17, 2025 – February 16, 2026), 13 closings and $3,885,500 in volume. I put those numbers on this page because they're checkable, and I'd rather you check them than take my word for anything.
People ask why my personal numbers aren't bigger. Here's why: my scoreboard is my agents' production. Since I took the BIC seat, my first job is the brokers who work under my license. Their contracts get reviewed, their problems get solved, their closings get supervised. And yes, I still take my own clients. Both things are true.
In my first year as Broker-in-Charge (February 17, 2025 – February 16, 2026), the firm closed 140 transactions for $44.6M. That is about 26% more sold volume than the firm's average year in the three years before I took the seat, and the average sale price rose 13%, from $281,660 to $318,225. (HCAR MLS office production reports.)
You can also see my page at Regency Properties on the firm's own website, RegencyPropertiesNC.com.
Regency Properties' closings and sold volume by period, from HCAR MLS office production reports (January 2020–October 2026):
311 closings · about $66.7M sold (two years combined) (HCAR MLS)
392 closings · $110.4M sold · average sale price $281,660 · 3.5% of all MLS closings (HCAR MLS)
I became Broker-in-Charge of Regency Properties.
140 closings · $44.6M sold under my leadership · average sale price $318,225 (HCAR MLS)
917 closings · $244.9M sold (HCAR MLS)
Find Us
204 E Main St
West Jefferson, NC 28694
Mobile: (336) 977-6569
john.blevins@regencypropertiesnc.com
Monday–Friday: 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Saturday: 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Sunday: Closed
I'm in and out with clients most days — calling first is the surest way to catch me.
Plain talk. I'll tell you when a house is priced right and when it isn't, when a piece of land won't perc, and when an offer is too low to be taken seriously — including when it's your offer. I publish short videos and articles answering real questions from real clients, because I'd rather you understand the process than just trust it. You'll find them on my YouTube channel and on Voce.
My office is at 204 E Main St in West Jefferson, across Ashe, Alleghany, Avery, and Watauga counties' worth of back roads I drive every week. Call me at (336) 977-6569 — you'll get me, not a phone tree.
If you're thinking about buying or selling in the High Country, give me a call. I'm John Blevins with Regency Properties, and I'll tell you straight what I think, even if it isn't what you hoped to hear. No pressure and no obligation, just a straight conversation about where you stand.