425 Westview Drive
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 a home it has owned for 40 years. Family trusts make moves to divest themselves of real estate elsewhere.
Another theme this month? Relocating doctors, as February must be a prime time for MDs to go hither and yon. There’s a spate of new builds — with some decades-old classics as well — plus we can ponder the provenance of the “friends’ entrance.”
What follows are the top 10 home sales in Nashville and surrounding counties (this month, the only surrounding county to join is Williamson) for February, ranked by sales price.
1. 1216 Canterbury Drive, Belle Meade, 37205
Buyers: Ashley and William H. Frist Jr.
Sale price: $3 million
Sellers: Daniel and Amanda Gluck
Sellers and buyers’ agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich and Clark Realty
Harrison Frist — a senior vice president at Navihealth and eldest son of former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist — and his wife Ashley, whom he met when she was an aide to Sen. John Cornyn (he proposed in the dome of the U.S. Capitol), are the buyers of this 7,971-square-foot Belle Meade home. Seller Daniel Gluck is a senior vice president at York Capital Management. Amanda Gluck is a well-known fashion blogger.
The Glucks came in second on the April 2015 Headline Homes list when they paid $2.7 million to ... William Frist. That William Frist’s middle initial is “R,” and he’s Harrison Frist’s cousin.
2. 425 Westview Drive, Belle Meade, 37205
Buyers: Page E. and H. Rodes Hart Jr.
Sale price: $1.9 million
Seller: The Alice M. Thomas Revocable Trust
Seller’s agent: Ronda Thompson and Robin Brandon, Worth Properties
Buyers’ agent: Steve G. Fridrich, Fridrich and Clark Realty
This stately Georgian built in 1949 is bedecked with columns, befitting the style, and though “just” 4,300 square feet, it sits on a nearly 2-acre lot on Westview.
H. Rodes Hart Jr. is an executive vice president at Brookside Properties. The home had been owned by the Thomas family for four decades.
3. 120 Taggart Ave., Nashville, 37205
Buyers: Jonathan and Alpa Nick
Sale price: $1.65 million
Sellers: Jane P. and John B. Waters Jr.
Sellers’ agent: Whitney Musser, Worth Properties
Buyers’ agent: Dax McCall, Benchmark Realty
Most master bedrooms on the Headline Homes list have extraordinary accoutrements — his and hers bathrooms and what have you — but 120 Taggart Ave., built in 2015, has an extra laundry room in the master suite. It also has a “friends’ entrance” that has lockers adjacent, though if one requires one’s friends to use a special door and then stash their gear in a locker room, how good a friend is one?
Alpa Nick is a Nashville OB/GYN.
4. 3609 Trimble Road, Nashville, 37215
Buyer: Janice S. Mcclanahan
Sale price: $1,616,887
Seller: Powell Hedley
Seller’s agent: Beth Molteni, Fridrich and Clark Realty
Buyer’s agent: Art Farmer, HRG Realty Group
Built in 1955 but recently renovated, this 4,000-square-footer’s prime feature is that the four-car garage is heated. Some homes just sell themselves.
Seller Powell Hedley is a well-connected country music publicist.
5. 5205 Colleton Way, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: Ashok N. and Nicole Babu
Sale price: $1.435 million
Sellers: William M. and Myleen Kottas
Sellers’ agent: Andy Beasley, Brentview Realty Company
Buyers’ agent: Beth Weaver Felch, Zeitlin and Co.
The full finished basement in this 7,331-square-foot Princeton Hills home “could be an in-law suite.” It isn’t, but it could be. Just like one could call “the hearth room” with its vaulted ceilings “just a big, fancy den.”
Ashok Babu is a cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Thomas who recently relocated from Colorado. Bill Kottas is a developer with CK Development.
6. 1612 Windy Ridge Drive, Brentwood, 37027
Buyer: Myleen Kottas
Sale price: $1,421,174 million
Seller: GP Luxury LLC
Seller and buyer’s agent: Brianna Morant
One of the sellers at No. 5 buys this new custom build near Richland Country Club at No. 6.
The four bedrooms are all all-suite and the home is surrounded by “irreplaceable trees.”
7. 4240 Wallace Lane, Nashville, 37215
Buyers: Justin and Rachel B. Prince
Sale price: $1.4 million
Seller: Vintage South LLC
Seller’s agents: Jonathan Heard and John G. Brittle Jr., Parks
Buyers’ agent: Jessica Torres, Zeitlin and Co.
Another custom build, this time by Vintage South in Green Hills. Reclaimed hardwoods run throughout the 5,000 square feet, plus there’s custom cabinetry and an in-law suite.
8. 2108 Timberwood Place, Forest Hills, 37215
Buyers: Timothy J. and Tammy Maharrey
Sale price: $1.34 million
Seller: NRT LLC
Seller’s agent: Ryan Miller, The Lipman Group Sotheby’s International Realty
Buyers’ agent: Shane Tallent, Parks
A third straight new build, this Forest Hills home promises “the best new-build value around.” Value, as always in Headline Homes, is in the eye of beholder.
9. 418 Lynnwood Blvd., Belle Meade, 37205
Buyers: Megan P. and Clarence R. Stauffer III
Sale price: $1.31 million
Seller: Billy M. Womack Family Trust
Seller and buyers’ agent: Starling Davis, Fridrich and Clark Realty
After a run of new builds, a nearly 70-year-old Belle Meade classic comes in at No. 9. The home has “great flow” and two fireplaces.
10. 3905 Wallace Lane, Nashville, 37215
Buyers: Christopher M. and Rebecca S. Cook
Sale price: $1,279,735
Sellers: Jian and Lin S. Huang
Sellers’ agents: Emily Baud Williams and Linda Seaton, Benchmark Realty
Buyers’ agent: Suzanne K. Karr, Crye-Leike
A second trip to Wallace Lane wraps up this month’s list. This 2006 build has a smart-home system, a “palatial master” and an elevator that goes to “ALL 3 FLOORS” (no indication if the all-caps in that part of the listing is meant to emphasize the ability of the elevator or the fact that the home has three stories).
Christopher Cook is an orthopedic surgeon. Wife Rebecca is a cancer researcher and professor at Vanderbilt.
