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Hendersonville Real Estate

Hendersonville is located about 30 minutes north east of Nashville and is easily accessible via I 65N and is well know for it's desirable lake front homes.

In the mid 60's the Army Corp of Engineers created the Old Hickory Lake by damming the the river and flooding what was once farm land and old plantations.

As the news of lake homes spread the interest spread to country music stars like Jonny Cash and Roy Orbison who bought lake homes and helped raise the profile of Hendersonville as a luxury lake home market.

In the late 70's and early 80's the growth of Hendersonville was felt to be getting out of hand by the residents and the city management was then elected on a no growth platform. This was great for a few years…

LaurelBrooke in Franklin TN

LaurelBrooke is one of those communities that has set itself apart from other luxury home developments.

As soon as you enter through the security gates you realize that this is a development that has been engineered to architects and landscape visionaries to create a feeling of opulence and welcoming ambiance that is unmatched any any other developer.

 I've lucky enough to show anumber of homes over the past few years and every visit I am still impressed by the architectural sytle and vision that makes this one of the most desirable gated subdivisions in the Greater nashville area.

The price range of homes in this upscale subdivision startas at just under $1 million and goes all the way up to around $8 million. Each…

Nashville Equestrian Homes

If you talk about Nashville most people immediately think of country music. Well, they wouldn't be wrong. Nashville is the capital of country music and the majority of of country music stars and songwriters live in the Nashville area. One thing you may not instantly associate with Nashville is equestrian property.

Nashville itself is much like any other city in the USA in that the downtown area has a higher concentration of buildings and not a great deal of open space or park land. However the land surrounding Nashville has traditionally been farm land and equestrian property that is now becoming accessible to a whole new market of buyers.

Franklin Horse Property

The typical horse property in the Nashville market…

Nashville MLS and Interactive Maps

The real estate buyer in recent years has had their search made much much easier since the arrival of the internet. Once upon a very long time ago real estate agents would actually have to travel across town to pick up the key for a prospective showing after spending hours going through the multiple listing book looking at the listings with their clients.

Local Realtors and the MLS

Imagine if you were one of the agents that was born and bred in that community and had a life time of real estate memories that you could impart to your buyers. The real estate agent basically had the ability to create a virtual tour of the community and homes by recalling homes they had seen previously or had sold. They were seen as a…

Governors Club, Brentwood, TN

The address of the Governors Club in Brentwood TN is well known locally as one of the most prestigious gated luxury homes in the Nashville area.

The subdivision itself is nestled in the rolling hills of Tennessee on more than 600 acres of wooded and open green lots.

In addition to giving the residents a secure and peaceful environment to live in the landscaping and overall appearance  is enhanced by the fact that the subdivision is also on a championship level golf course.

The commanding Arnold Palmer designed championship course

The magnificent golf course was designed by the legendary Arnold Palmer and this has certainly set the luxury and upscale homes against a truly impressive backdrop. Imagine living with a…

Selling Your Home

Only a few short years ago the process of selling a home in the United States underwent a dramatic transformation as the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) concept was developed.

This change was then further enhanced with the advent of the internet. No longer did the agent and buyer have to sit down at a desk and together flip through hundereds of pages in a listing book they could now look at the homes online. The agent was able to listen to the needs of the home buyer and create a search profile that narrowed down the homes a buyer needed to look at and saved lots of time.

Now the whole search process is being enhanced yet again putting the ability of the online search in the hands of the buyer themseleves.

Sites like…

The Governors Club gated subdivision is one of the most sought after addresses in the Nashville area.

The entry level to this upscale community now starts at just under $1M with homes under construction that are approaching the $M price point.

One builder that is making an impact in the Governors Club is The Renaissance Group LLC.

Originally from the Bay area in San Francisco the principal of The Renaissance Group made his reputation building and designing homes with the luxurious splendor that is common place in California but also with an eye for interesting design and developing character into homes that created a warm and welcoming ambiance for the new…

Nashville Tennessee

Today was another day with a client looking for the perfect home at the perfect price in the perfect location. Nothing unsual there. All homebuyers have an ideal home they are searching for and in the end make a number of compromises so that they end up with something that comes as close as to their ideal home as possible.

Location is still King!

It seems in Nashville that the old adage of Location, Location,Location is still the basis for the majority of buyers when it comes to finding the ideal place to buy their next home.

Out with the old and in with the new.

Driving around the Brentwood, Belle Meade and West Meade areas today with my client it became very apparent that the older homes built in the cheap land days of the…