Real estate is a business of trends. Knowing when the lowest low has arrived and when the highest high has peaked. Identifying the next big neighborhood just before it gets hot.
This is how money is made.
The hot trend in this month's list of Headline Homes is outdoor kitchens. Perhaps the buyers spent all summer wondering when, oh, when they would finally have a home where they could cook outside. Perhaps the sellers, knowing they had the much-coveted outdoor kitchen, waited to sell until the early fall, not wanting to waste a minute of potential outdoor-kitchen time.
Also trendworthy this month: Williamson County. Not that it's unusual to have plenty of entrants from our southern neighbor, but this month, the 'burbs take each of the top four positions, and Belle Meade just barely sneaks in at No. 10.
As always, what follows are the Top 10 home sales in Davidson and surrounding counties for the month of September, ranked by price.
1. 1629 Whispering Hills Drive, Franklin, 37069
Buyer: SS Investment Trust, Todd D. Glisson, trustee
Sell price: $2.985 million
Seller: Timothy Glenn and Elizabeth Mullins Scarvey
Seller's agent: Nancy Torrans, Zeitlin & Company Realtors
Buyer's agent: Cathie Cato Renken, French King Fine Properties
HCA senior vice-president Tim Scarvey and his wife sell this 10,430-square-foot French chateau with "soaring ceilings, abundant windows and impeccable trim."
The home also has a normal kitchen, an outdoor kitchen, a dining room (with commissioned art!) and a 1,000-bottle wine room.
As if it needed to be said, the listing notes that the home is "decadent perfection."
Trustee Glisson owns Covenant Financial Partners; his client is unknown, and he could certainly be his own client.
2. 702 Brass Lantern Place, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: Cory L. and Jennifer S. Calendine
Sell price: $2.08 million
Sellers: William R. and Tara L. Bevins
Sellers' agent: Sarah D. Milligan, Crye-Leike Realtors
Buyers' agent: Jimmy Pilkerton, Pilkerton Realtors
Each of the five bedrooms in this rare Brass Lantern Estates offering has its own private bathroom. While the listing promises "amenities galore," those individual washrooms are more or the less the extent of what's noted, other than the level 1-acre yard.
Buyer Cory Calendine is a Franklin-based orthopedic surgeon.
3. 3137 McMillan Road, Franklin, 37064
Buyer: JDTH Trust, William T. Chapman IV, trustee
Sell price: $1,900,500
Sellers: Jeremy Thomas and Adrienne Camp
Sellers' agent: Cindy Garvey, United Country – Leipers Fork L&H
Buyer's agent: Victoria Anest, Keller Williams Realty
Take a run at who go-to trustee Chapman represents in the JDTH Trust, the new owners of this 7,636-square-foot, six-bedroom home on more than nine acres near Leipers Fork.
The property includes a pool and patio with the suddenly ubiquitous outdoor kitchen and, intriguingly, a "real treehouse like you've never seen before."
JDTH might represent someone in the music business, as the home also includes a recording studio (or it might not).
The Camps got use out of it, presumably. Jeremy Camp is a multiple Dove Award-winning contemporary Christian musician. Adie Camp is the South African-born former frontwoman of Christian pop-rockers The Benjamin Gate. She is now a solo artist.
4. 6351 Shadow Ridge Court, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: Steve and Michele Simpson
Sell price: $1.775 million
Sellers: David J. and Carol A. Lindsay
Sellers' agent: Judy Williams, Crye-Leike Inc. Realtors
Buyers' agent: Jack S. Miller, Parks
Clarcor VP and chief administrative officer David Lindsay is the seller of this Belle Rive home with a "stunning state of the art kitchen."
Guess what? It has an outdoor kitchen. It also has a putting green and a reverse infinity pool, which presumably is a waterway to the fourth dimension.
Buyer Steve Simpson is a founder and managing partner at Franklin's Wheelhouse LLC, an executive leadership firm. Michele Simpson is a former vice president for communications at various health care companies such as Iasis and Spheris.
5. 101 McArthur Ridge Court, Nashville 37220
Buyers: Mickey and Janice Harlow
Sell price: $1.725 million
Sellers: Laura L. Williams and Philip M. Walker
Sellers' agent: Sheri C. Smith, Zeitlin & Co. Realtors
Buyers' agent: Caroline Smith, Keller Williams Realty
The first Davidson County entry of the month is a "Crestron Smart Home," whatever that is. Can't be too smart, as it doesn't appear to have an outdoor kitchen.
It does have two laundry rooms and three "Master Suites," but can a house really have more than one? Man cannot serve two (or three) master suites, as the old saying doesn't go.
Seller Williams is an obstetrician and gynecologist. Walker is an attorney. Buyer Mickey Harlow is the CEO of Paramount Uniform Rental.
6. 574 Grand Oaks Drive, Brentwood, 37027
Buyers: Michael and Bernadette Meadors
Sell price: $1.585 million
Sellers: Iain C.W. and Sara T. Briggs
Sellers' agent: Lydia Armistead, Freeman Webb Co. Realtors
Buyers' agent: Rena C. Elizy, Weichert Realtors/The Andrews Group
The second Belle Rive entry in this month's list has an "impressive terrace with views of the backyard." Unlike its counterpart at No. 4, it only has a normal infinity pool, not a reverse one.
Seller Iain Briggs is the CEO of Nashville's CleanEarth Corp. The Meadorses are both local doctors.
7. 2607 Oakland Ave., Nashville, 37212
Buyers: Vineet Sharma and Camellia R. Koleyni
Sell price: $1,548,017
Seller: Phillip M. Stinson
Sellers' agent: Daniel Green, Benchmark Realty
Buyers' agent: Steven Myers, Fridrich & Clark Realty
The unusually priced Belmont home is the "crown jewel" of Oakland Avenue and has been "gutted" and renovated and added-on to. Another two-doc buy here, as Sharma is a radiologist and Koleyni is a family practitioner.
Stinson is a real estate agent who apparently knows his stuff: He bought the home in 2013 for $385,000.
8. 824 Nanearle Place, Oak Hill, 37220
Buyer: JCB Nominee Trust, Michael Sontag, trustee
Sell price: $1.4 million
Sellers: James & Sheila Bearden
Sellers' agent: Kevin Pellatiro, Benchmark Realty
Buyer's agent: Susan M. James, Viva Properties
The Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Prairie style was advertised as a cure for the McMansion. The house has 92 windows, which do remain, and an art collection, which did not.
Sontag tends to represent the celebrity class, though not exclusively so.
Seller James Bearden is the CEO of engineering firm Gresham, Smith and Partners.
9. 5122 Annesway Drive, Nashville, 37205
Buyers: Darryl L. and Carol B. Yochem
Sell price: $1,290,745
Sellers: Peter & Kristy Clifton
Sellers' agent: Jodie Barringer, Fridrich & Clark
Buyers' agent: Margaret H. Taylor, Fridrich & Clark
Rarely is a Headline Home advertised as having a yard that's nice for a trampoline, but rarely do homes in tony Hill Place make the list.
This home, bucking this month's trend, does not have an outdoor kitchen. It does have two outdoor living rooms and an "awesome laundry room."
Seller Peter Clifton is the CEO of ReadyPoint Health.
Carol Yochem was named the new Middle Tennessee president and chairman of First Tennessee Bank in March.
10. 213 Belle Meade Blvd., Belle Meade, 37205
Buyers: J. Banks and Tracy P. Link
Sell price: $1.275 million
Sellers: Phillip A. and Patricia Schmidt Johnson
Sellers' agent: Steve Fridrich, Fridrich & Clark
Buyers' agent: Laura Baugh, Worth Properties
By the skin of its teeth, Belle Meade gets its required monthly appearance with this Colonial/Georgian Revival, which was built in either 1925 or 1930 (the tax record says the latter, but other paperwork indicates the former).
Along with Glisson, the trustee up at No. 1, J. Banks Link owns Covenant Partners.
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