About Judy
Judith M. Naimo, a native of California, former founder and sole proprietor of Green Valley Associates, a real estate brokerage in Napa, California from 1987 to 2010 has now joined Heritage Sotheby’s International Realty as the General Manager. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1970. In 1972 she visited a college friend who was teaching school in St. Helena, and fell in love with the Napa Valley. She worked for the County of Napa as an adult education teacher in those early years on the Napa Valley College Campus, at Napa State Hospital, and at the Napa County Jail tutoring GED. Judy began selling real estate in 1980, and became co-owner of Rose Realty in 1982. She received her Brokers license in 1984, and in 1987 founded Green Valley Associates. Judy is a Certified Residential Specialist and is also in the ranks of the elite Graduates of the Realtor Institute.
Judy is a board member of the North Bay Housing Coalition; a volunteer organization dedicated to providing independent and supported living housing to individuals with developmental disabilities. She is also an ordained minister in Great Western Brotherhood.
Judy entered the real estate business at a time where interest rates were at an all time high and most properties were on the market for sometimes years. Because of this she is exceptionally focused on making sure that each of her clients’ real estate dealings are analyzed as the investment they truly are. Judy’s perspective is that real estate should fit her clients’ long term goals and that a planning session in the beginning can save time, money and taxes. She develops a strategy that suits her clients individually. She learned early on the importance of reducing the chaos and confusion created in most real estate transactions, and works extensively with buyers, sellers and investors to purchase and sell real property quickly and profitably, with less disruption to their families.
