Blogs by Author - Stephanie Crawford

Oct 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Nashville Is the No. 2 Buyer’s Market in the U.S. Our First-Time Buyers Negotiated $43,000.

📰 As featured in The Washington Post: “It’s a great time to buy a house — if you can stomach a 7% rate,” by Rachel Lerman, Oct. 12, 2026. Read it free with an email sign-in, no subscription needed.Our clients Joe Hiebert and Annie Reagan bought a 1960s ranch in Nashville's Whispering Hills in June for about $482,000, nearly $20,000 under list. When the inspection turned up a roof that needed rep

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Oct 19, 2026 4 min read

Nashville Is the No. 2 Buyer’s Market in the U.S. Our First-Time Buyers Negotiated $43,000.

Oct 16, 2026 7 min read

Buying Property Near Vanderbilt or Belmont

We've been helping Vanderbilt and Belmont families buy near campus since 2003: parents, grad students, residents at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a few professors. Owning near campus still makes sense for the right buyer. That buyer looks different than when we first wrote this guide, and so do the homes going up around both schools.Vanderbilt's off-campus living guide is clear that a lea

Sep 30, 2026 5 min read

The 8 Biggest 55+ Communities Around Nashville, Ranked by Size

The first question we get about 55+ living usually isn't about clubhouses. It's whether a community is big enough to have a life of its own — enough neighbors that the social calendar runs itself and you're not waiting on twelve people to fill a dinner table. Around Nashville, eight communities clear 500 homes. The biggest, Del Webb's Southern Harmony in Murfreesboro, is still being built: 1,111

Sep 11, 2026 8 min read

Living in Downtown Nashville: The Buildings, the Prices, and What a Weeknight is Like

Downtown Nashville is about 22,000 residents sharing a core with 88,000 daily workers. Condos there sold for a median of roughly $632,000 in the three months ending July 2026, up 14.9% from a year earlier, in a market that closes about 30 units a month. Nearly everything for sale is a condo or loft in one of a dozen buildings, and the weeknight-versus-event-weekend difference is the thing most bu

Sep 9, 2026 3 min read

20+ Years For Us = A Trusted Expert For You

When you're ready to buy or sell a home in Nashville, having experienced local guides makes all the difference. As a husband-and-wife realtor team with deep roots in Music City, we've helped hundreds of families navigate Nashville's unique real estate landscape. We believe every client deserves personalized service backed by decades of local market expertise.Nashville's real estate market has fou

Sep 8, 2026 7 min read

First-Time Home Buyer Guide Nashville TN: Programs & Down Payment Assistance 2026 ✅

You do not need 20% down to buy a house in Nashville. Most of the first-time buyers we work with put down somewhere between 3% and 10%, and a good number of them cover part of even that with assistance money they did not know existed six weeks earlier.Nashville's median single-family price sat at $537,000 in June 2026, with about 51 days on market and six months of inventory across the region. Th

Sep 3, 2026 6 min read

Nashville Sellers Give Back About a Point After Labor Day. Rates Are Adding to It.

September 3, 2026 · James & Stephanie Crawford, Nesting Realty TWe pulled every single-family closing across nine Middle Tennessee counties from July 2023 through July 2026 out of Realtracs. The June-to-December move is close to identical two years running:Roughly 1.2 points of original list price, nine to twelve extra days on market, and 0.43 months of supply — twice, to the decimal. The showi

Sep 1, 2026 5 min read

Stephens Valley Is in Two Counties. Your Schools Depend on Which Side.

Stephens Valley carries a Nashville mailing address and a 37221 ZIP code, and for most of its life the whole development sat inside Williamson County, which is no longer the case. The Davidson–Williamson county line now runs straight through the neighborhood, cutting between streets rather than around them, so two houses a few hundred feet apart along the Pasquo Road corridor can sit in different

Aug 18, 2026 6 min read

Is Now a Good Time to Sell a Home in Nashville? (2026)

Yes, if you price it to the market.In July 2026, 2,691 single-family homes closed across the Middle Tennessee counties we work. Half of them went under contract inside 15 days. The average was 31.That gap between 15 and 31 is the entire answer to your question, and it has almost nothing to do with the market.Between July 2025 and June 2026, 4,906 single-family homes with a Nashville address close

Aug 13, 2026 8 min read

Do You Have to Wait for Probate to Sell an Inherited House in Brentwood?

Everything downstream runs off that answer — who has authority to sign a deed, whether you need a court's permission before you list, how long the whole thing takes, and whether the proceeds go to the heirs at closing or sit until the estate closes. Families call us worried about the house. The house is usually the easy part. The paperwork behind it decides your timeline.Short answer: Often, no.

Blogs by Author - Stephanie Crawford

Nashville Is the No. 2 Buyer’s Market in the U.S. Our First-Time Buyers Negotiated $43,000.

Recent Blogs

Nashville Is the No. 2 Buyer’s Market in the U.S. Our First-Time Buyers Negotiated $43,000.

Buying Property Near Vanderbilt or Belmont

The 8 Biggest 55+ Communities Around Nashville, Ranked by Size

Living in Downtown Nashville: The Buildings, the Prices, and What a Weeknight is Like

20+ Years For Us = A Trusted Expert For You

First-Time Home Buyer Guide Nashville TN: Programs & Down Payment Assistance 2026 ✅

Nashville Sellers Give Back About a Point After Labor Day. Rates Are Adding to It.

Stephens Valley Is in Two Counties. Your Schools Depend on Which Side.

Is Now a Good Time to Sell a Home in Nashville? (2026)

Do You Have to Wait for Probate to Sell an Inherited House in Brentwood?

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