A PGA golfer, a rock star's ex and the biggest sale in recent memory top the first Headline Homes list of 2016

Headline Homes is often a cavalcade of boisterous exaggeration, as the listings for January’s top 10 demonstrate adeptly. The houses have “too many features to list” or they include “the best of everything” or are “tough to beat” and so on and so forth.

The top entry for the first month of 2016 is one of the biggest sales in some time, and it’s all the way down in Maury County. Among our buyers and sellers are a PGA golfer not named Snedeker, an ex-wife of a Journey member and the CEO of a private security firm.

These are the top 10 homes sold in Davidson and surrounding counties in January, ranked by sales price:

1. 3672 Talley Moore Road, Columbia, 38401

Buyer: W Real Estate Trust, Sullivan Marsden, trustee

Sale price: $5.35 million

Seller: Talley Moore Road LLC

Seller’s agent: Don Dalton, Reliant Realty

Buyer’s agent: Andrew Day, Benchmark Realty

The new year starts off with a big buy: more than $5 million for this 120-acre estate in Maury County. The five-bedroom, eight-and-a-half-bathroom home totals more than 9,500 square feet, plus there’s 1,500 square feet of covered outdoor space and a 4,000-square-foot deck around the pool. The property also includes a 12,000-square-foot horse barn.

Dalton and wife Valerie are the builders and designers of the property, sold to an anonymous trust fronted by Nashville tax attorney Sullivan Marsden.

2. 115 McArthur Ridge Court, Nashville, 37220

Buyers: Christopher A. and Carla J. Holden

Sale price: $3.4 million

Sellers: Tim and Carissa Pereira

Sellers’ agents: Steve G. Fridrich and Laura McSpadden, Fridrich & Clark Realty

Buyers’ agent: Regina Smith, Pilkerton Realtors

The Pereiras, owners of Green Hills soda shop and candy store Sugar Dive, sell their decade-old home — nearly 10,000 square feet with a swimming pool and playground on its 1.2 acres — to AmSurg CEO Christopher Holden and his wife, Carla. Tim Pereira was previously an associate vice president at AmSurg.

The home has a wrap-around front porch, a game room and a top-of-the-line misting system.

3. 9276 Exton Lane, Brentwood, 37027

Buyers: Ben and Heather Crane

Sale price: $2,987,543

Seller: Thomas A. Vallett

Seller and buyers’ agents: Susan Gregory and Lisa Culp Taylor, Parks

An increasingly rare new build in Annandale, this custom home was completed in late October. It has “too many features to list,” so we, like the agents, won’t even try.

Seller Vallett is an executive vice president at Lochinvar, the boiler and water heater company founded by his great-grandfather. Ben Crane is a PGA golfer, winner of eight tournaments on the tour.

4. 5186 Colleton Way, Brentwood, 37027

Buyers: Thomas C. and Carole Naslund

Sale price: $2.21 million

Sellers: Mark and Jenna W. Lassiter

Sellers’ agents: Judy Williams and Richard Williams, Crye-Leike

Buyers’ agent: Stephanie Webb, Benchmark Realty

The listing promises “the best of everything,” which includes iron front doors, a quartz-finish pool, great views and dual-flush toilets.

Thomas Naslund is the director of vascular surgery at Vanderbilt. 

5. 108 Church Street, Franklin, 37064

Buyer: Christopher Simovich

Sale price: $1.84 million

Seller: F. Perry Ozburn

Seller’s agent: Benton Ozburn, Reliant Realty

Buyer’s agent: Amber Conrad, Parks

The Brownstones on Franklin’s Church Street make occasional appearances on this list, but this one promises to be the nicest one of the lot. For one thing, it has one of the few three-car garages in the development, plus a private courtyard, custom drapes and a brand-new patio. 

Ozburn is a former honcho of what is now OHL Logistics and purchased this home in 2010 for $1.36 million, while retaining a country spread.

Simovich is the president and CEO of Global Strategies, a California-based boutique security firm.

6. 3823 Trimble Road, Nashville, 37215

Buyer: Anne Kristina Turner

Sale price: $1,762,500

Seller: Elizabeth Fullerton Cain

Seller’s agents: Nathan Weinberg and Steve Mabee, Parks

Buyer’s agent: Dawne Davis, Parks

Continuing this month’s trend of likely indefensible hyperbole, this home is described as “tough to beat.” The two-year-old, 7,500-square-foot Green Hills home has irrigated and amazing outdoor spaces and a flexible floor plan.

Cain is the ex-wife of Journey and Bad English keyboard player Jonathan Cain, composer of “Faithfully.” 

7. 301 Clarendon Ave., Belle Meade, 37205

Buyers: Craig and Sara G. Perry

Sale price: $1.75 million

Sellers: Marc P. and Kennon K. Dennis

Sellers’ agents: Steve G. Fridrich and Margaret H. Taylor, Fridrich & Clark Realty

Buyers’ agent: Anne A. McGugin, Fridrich & Clark Realty

A classic 1920s Belle Meade Georgian has the “finest of amenities,” after being recently renovated. 

Craig Perry is the CEO of local taco chain Local Taco. The Dennises are agents at CAA.

8. 2221 Old Hickory Blvd., Forest Hills, 37215

Buyers: Carissa and Tim Pereira

Sale price: $1.67 million

Sellers: Mark H. and Sharon C. Oldham

Sellers’ agents: Dortch Oldham and Carol Oldham, Keller Williams

Buyers’ agent: Laura McSpadden, Fridrich & Clark

For their $1.67 million, the Pereiras — sellers up at No. 2 — not only got a 5,882-square-foot home with two master bedrooms, an 8-acre small ranch and a newly built pool and hot tub, but also “a lifestyle,” per the listing.

Mark Oldham is the founder of U.S. Hospitality, which he sold to conglomerate Uniguest. He now runs a handful of bed-and-breakfasts and small restaurants.

9. 1504 Cedar Lane, Nashville, 37212

Buyers: Jacob P. Schwarz and Anna R. Hemnes

Sale price: $1.565 million

Sellers: Jason and Elizabeth Sheer

Sellers’ agent: Richard B. French, French King Fine Properties

Buyers’ agent: Mary Brooke Bonadies, Main Street Real Estate

This 1920 bungalow in 12South/Belmont was the 2011 Metropolitan Historical Commission Preservation Award winner. It includes a private courtyard, and the lofted third-floor space is now an exercise suite. 

Jason Sheer is the longtime owner of Tin Roof. The buyers are both doctors. Schwarz is a neurosurgeon and Hemnes a pulmonary disease specialist.

10. 3617 Sperry Ave., Nashville, 37215

Buyers: Kevin and Jessica Douglas

Sale price: $1.55 million

Seller: Montgomery Classic Construction LLC

Seller’s agent: Sam Logan, SilverPointe

Buyer’s agent: Cathie Cato Renken, French King Fine Properties

And why not wrap up our top 10 with another huge promise. This new build “truly has it all,” if “it all” is a custom kitchen, a study with a wet bar and a large butler’s pantry.

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