4416 Sunnybrook Drive
An architecturally interesting home in a beautiful setting and with a link to one of Nashville's noble families tops the list of the Nashville area's most expensive homes this month.
January's list also includes a rare trip to Hickman County, where a restoration company CEO is one of two South Floridians to buy a Top 10 house this month. A doctor famous for his Christmas light displays waited until after the New Year to move, and where one anesthesiologist moved out, another moved right in.
As always, what follows are the Top 10 home sales in Nashville and area counties in January, ranked by sales price:
1. 565 Beech Creek Road South, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: John and Lori Ray
Sale price: $3.75 million
Seller: Saundra R. Steele
Seller's agents: Laura Stroud and Lisa Fernandez-Wilson, French King Fine Properties
Buyers' agents: Tim King and Richard B. French, French King Fine Properties
Sitting on 22 acres in the middle of the Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary, this home was designed by Bob Street and built in 1957 for Walter and Hulda Cheek Sharpe after the couple — who, among other things, spearheaded the effort to create the Nashville Symphony — donated Cheekwood to the city of Nashville. (Mrs. Sharpe was, yes, the only daughter of those Cheeks.)
The 6,600-square-foot midcentury modern has floor-to-ceiling windows throughout, a pool, tennis courts, four fireplaces and a reflecting pool. John Ray is the managing director of restructuring and interim management consultancy Greylock Partners of Naples, Fla. Seller Steele is the widow of the late Alex Steele, former Ingram Coal president.
2. 1470 Misty Lane, Centerville, 37033
Buyer: Daniels Holdings Swan Creek LLC
Sale price: $3.07 million
Sellers: Kenneth B. and Jewel P. Roberts
Sellers' agent: Cindy Garvey, United Country - Leipers Fork Land & Home
Buyer's agents: Sherry Galey and Gregg Bybee, Tennessee Properties
Restoration company ServiceMaster president and CEO Justin Daniels is the buyer of this rare Headline Homes foray into Hickman County. The 12,000-square-foot home sits on 165 acres, which include a pool, horse barn and indoor riding arena. This home spent 486 days on the market but nevertheless fetched nearly a half-million dollars more than its original asking price.
3. 1216 Waterstone Blvd., Franklin, 37069
Buyer: Jeffrey Mobley, trustee
Sale price: $2.48 million
Seller: Thomas Pacconi Jr.
Seller's agent: Nancy Torrans, Zeitlin & Co. Realtors
Buyer's agent: Franklin Pargh, Synergy Realty Network
Trustee Mobley is the frontman for this buy in Laurelbrooke. The purchasers pick up a "classic European estate" with a complex security system, four butler pantries, Carrera marble and hardwoods throughout. The home — which checks in at a massive 11,764 square feet — has two master suites, a library and a gentleman's retreat and bar (which is a far more elegant, far less sophomoric way of expressing the concept of "man cave"). Pacconi moved to Nashville in 2010 from Florida, where he was involved in his family's Christmas ornament manufacturing concern.
4. 4416 Sunnybrook Drive, Nashville, 37205
Buyers: Robert and Katherine Olsen
Sale price: $1.8 million
Seller: Sherri K. Middendorf
Seller's agent: Richard F. Bryan, Fridrich and Clark Realty
Buyers' agents: Pat Skow, Zeitlin & Co. Realtors
Man, it is said, cannot serve two masters, but he can apparently live in two. Like No. 3, this Green Hills home has two master bedrooms (and a living room with a second story, for that matter).
5. 10 Inveraray, Nashville, 37215
Buyers: Grant and Katherine L. Jackson
Sale price: $1.75 million
Seller: Debra F. Bloom
Seller's agent: Neal Clayton, Neal Clayton Realtors
Buyers' agents: Jody Hull, Bainbridge Realty Group
Council Capital general partner Grant Jackson is the new owner of this French-inspired chateau in Northumberland. The home features plenty of natural light in its nearly 5,500 square feet. The Jacksons managed to get the home for $400,000 under list after it spent more than six months on the market.
6. 3619 West End, Nashville, 37205
Buyers: Arnold Tackett and Lyle Finley, trustees for Lyle Finley Revocable Trust
Sale price: $1.7 million
Seller: Betty L. Kimbrell
Seller's and buyers' agent: Richard B. French, French King Fine Properties
Tackett and Finley are among the owners of Tiger Management Group and Convenience Management Group, operators of dozens of convenience stores and gas stations. It appears the home will be Finley's. The Whitland/West End home has three private suites, stone and concrete flooring and soaring ceilings.
7. 1039 Kendras Run, Gallatin, 37066
Buyers: Tommy H. and Susan W. Crunk
Sale price: $1.57 million
Sellers: Kendall J. and Robin R. Davis
Sellers' agent: Tammy Vaughn, Crye-Leike Realtors
Buyers' agent: Bernie Gallerani, RE/MAX Choice Properties
It's pretty unusual for a single-family home to have a penthouse, but this 19-room Sumner County home promises it does. The Crunks are moving from Springfield; he's a doctor, she's a financial adviser. The family was famous in Springfield for their Toyland light display, which was a highlight of the Robertson County holidays for three decades, so it's appropriate, perhaps, they waited until just after the holidays to move.
8. (tie) 9 Agincourt Way, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: Michael J. and Katherine B. Murray
Sale price: $1.55 million
Sellers: Terry W. and Ruth E. Smith
Sellers' agent: Andy Beasley, Brentview Realty Company
Buyers' agents: Christy Reed Tinius, Christianson, Patterson, Courtney and Associates
On five acres in Agincourt, this home checks in at more than 6,800 square feet and includes something called a "gathering room," which must be where to put houseguests who aren't well-liked enough to go into the living room. Michael Murray is a local dentist.
8. (tie) 1458 Willowbrooke Circle, Franklin, 37069
Buyers: Duane K. and Mindy A. Higgins
Sale price: $1.55 million
Sellers: Nancy and Kevin Jordan
Sellers' agent: Nancy Torrans, Zeitlin & Co. Realtors
Buyers' agent: Patricia A. Carter, Zeitlin & Co. Realtors
This home, a Cape Cod, has one of the most interesting room combinations ever featured on this list: exercise room, two laundries, theater, rec room and a student study area. Mr. Higgins works for Deloitte.
10. 5110 Cornell Court, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: John R. and Rebecca M. Oesterle
Sale price: $1.425 million
Sellers: Calvin A. and Susan K. Burrichter
Sellers' and buyers' agent: Patricia A. Carter, Zeitlin & Co. Realtors
This 6,500-square-footer in Princeton Hills was a same-day sale and a same-day sale between anesthesiologists. What are the odds?
