It takes more than half the list — including a stop in Hurricane Mills, of all places — before the first Davidson County property shows up in this installment of our monthly rundown of high-dollar home sales.

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Spring homebuying season has been so frenzied that Nashville Predators star Viktor Arvidsson’s purchase last month of a $1.975 million home near Cheekwood Botanical Gardens didn’t even crack April’s list. One anonymous trust, registered to a regular business manager for music and film stars,…

Famed singer-songwriter and last week’s Scene cover boy John Prine told us he recently bought a new home — one not so close to the Home of the Stars tour stop at his neighbor Kellie Pickler’s place. “A place with space for more antique cars,” he said. Purchased for a mere $2.6 million, Prine…

In August, every house on the Headline Homes list sold for more than $2 million. For most of us, that’s obviously a lot of money, but the average square footage wasn’t what you might expect for a figure that high. Square footage of 7,000 is pretty normal for Headline Homes, but in August, ma…

In June, the most expensive home in the Davidson County area was sold by ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill and his wife Charleen, an actress. The Hills had bought the home from Sheryl Crow for just $3.4 million, and after renovations, they sold it for $5.5 million. Country music songwriter Dallas Da…

In May, Gov. Bill Haslam’s niece once again topped the Headline Homes list — only this time it was for a sale rather than a purchase. Meharry Medical College’s CEO bought a $2.2 million home on Woodmont Boulevard, and Bob Doyle — Garth Brooks’ manager — also sold his Nashville home.

This month in the area’s top home sales, the former Welch College library was sold as a single-family home, an Indian movie star and former legislator moved to a sweet abode in Brentwood, Gov. Bill Haslam’s niece and her husband picked up the most expensive home on the list, and former Preda…

This month in the area’s top home sales, Ronnie Dunn — the Ronnie Dunn, of Brooks & Dunn — sold his modest digs in Forest Hills; a former Nashville Symphony show house sold; and a stylish modern white-brick went off the market after a long sale period. This month also saw lots of acreage…

This month in the area’s top home sales, the co-founder of private prison giant Corrections Corporation of America (now known as CoreCivic), Thomas Beasley, sold his home in Hurricane Mills. Nashville heir David B. Ingram bought a home in Forest Hills, and February also saw several other sal…

Only one home in January’s list of top home sales sold for more than $2 million — compared to December, when half the list topped that mark. A president and CEO of a renewable energy company bought a home from another renewable energy company’s CEO, and the CEO of Vanderbilt University Medic…

December saw more listings out of Williamson County than Davidson County — a somewhat unusual if not necessarily surprising development. The list of top sales also included more older homes and newly built homes than usual — a Victorian house built in 1881, an abode built in 1955 in Hillwood…

Most of the Headline Homes we see include a whole lot of house and not that much property — think an acre almost entirely filled with home — but this month’s list saw two homes with huge lots: one property at more than 90 acres and another almost doubling that. November also included a purch…

This month’s list of top Nashville-area home sales includes a purchase by bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs’ grandson Jesse Earl Scruggs, who is a cardiovascular anesthesiologist at Saint Thomas Health, a sale by an actor on TV’s Nashville and a new home for the family who lost their home to a h…

There are McMansions aplenty in our September roundup of the Nashville area’s highest-dollar homes. One stood out in the crowd of gaudy gems: a clean-lined Forest Hills home designed by Robert Anderson, who died in 2014 but is known for his modern designs. John Peter Angelos, executive vice …

In this month’s batch of the top Nashville-area homes sales, there was an “equestrian dream,” an “entertainer’s dream” and a “dream home in a league of its own.” Buyers and sellers ranged from all sorts of CEOs to former Tennessee Titans punter Craig Hentrich to a local restaurant entreprene…

In this batch of July’s top homes, there were enough former and current pro football players to field a half-decent team. In addition to the sports-world ballers, there were regular ballers, too: The president of Nashville-based DET Distributing Co. tops the list, as he purchased an awe-wort…

June made for one of the more interesting Headline Homes months in recent memory. The list starts and ends with forays into faraway places never before mentioned in this august catalog of high-end property. In between, the homes are all in Nashville — save one new build in Franklin.

There are some interesting buyers and sellers on the list this month.

This month’s list has a curious mixture of brand-new homes and some classics, and — this is a rarity — includes a pair not just on the same street, but right next door to one another. The buyers and sellers are a fun group, too. There is a swap between the families of two venerable Nashville…

Our annual People Issue is out this week, with profiles of various interesting people (and a dog) from around town. Check it all out here. 

This month’s list starts with a Frist buying a home that his name’s-the-same cousin sold last year, setting up a familial vibe that winds through the area’s top-priced homes. While the Frists were (eventually) able to keep that one in the family, at No. 2 is a sale that sees a family selling…

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.

It's a corporate takeover of Headline Homes!

A couple of unusual occurrences mark this month’s list, which itself is unusual in that several of the sales are light on details, and nary a celebrity is to be found.

No matter the month, Headline Homes will always surprise.

This week's cover story is about dams — the dams surrounding Nashville and, specifically, Old Hickory Dam which could soon have a rock quarry as a new neighbor. 

It was nearly a clean sweep for Nashville in September's list. The top seven — and eight of the Top 10 — sales were in Metro (and one of the two Williamson County homes is oh-so-close to having to pay property taxes in Davidson County). 

Talk about the landed gentry.

Headline Homes always has its fair share of Williamson County entries, though there’s typically a healthy balance of big buys on both sides of Old Hickory Boulevard. But this month, Metro got dominated by its wealthy neighbor. One block in Brentwood had nearly as many entrants as the whole o…