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housing market

Nashville’s home listings are outpacing closings, new report shows

Cynthia Abrams

June 30, 2025

East Nashville home construction

There are a lot of homes on the market around Nashville — but fewer people buying them. 

Filed Under: Business, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Bristol, clarksville, home sales, Housing, housing market, kingsport, Knoxville, memphis, Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU, multifamily permits, Nashville, Real Estate, Sullivan County

Adventures in Nashville home shopping with first-time buyers

Cynthia Abrams

August 4, 2022

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In this episode, we meet Nashville residents who’ve had vastly different experiences buying homes over the last year. We’ll talk house flipping, gentrification and interest rates.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Housing, housing market

Climbing mortgage rates are pushing home ownership out of reach for some Nashville buyers

Paige Pfleger

May 10, 2022

Mortgage rates are climbing due to recent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve. That means it costs more to borrow money, which drives down people’s buying power — a dilemma that Brentwood resident Sean Hamlet knows all too well.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Housing, housing market, Real Estate

Nashville Residents Are Falling Through Loopholes In Federal Eviction Moratorium

Ambriehl Crutchfield

April 13, 2021

Ahmad Harden
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In Nashville at least 68 residents have been evicted since January. That’s despite the CDC’s federal eviction moratorium and a local housing court working to keep people in their homes.

Filed Under: Metro Tagged With: COVID-19, evictions, housing market

Nashville’s Metro Council Urges Lenient Collection Of Rent And Mortgage

Tony Gonzalez

April 17, 2020

“Creative and lenient.” That’s what Nashville’s Metro Council is encouraging landlords, banks and mortgage companies to be during the pandemic as many residents confront unemployment and dramatic income loss.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, housing market

Nashville Housing Market Bests 2006 To Set All-Time Sales Record

Natasha Senjanovic

January 8, 2018

According to the Greater Nashville Realtors, 2017 was the best year on record for the Middle Tennessee housing market. The group says nearly 41,000 homes sold last year, about a 4 percent increase from 2016. That broke the previous record, which had been set in 2006, before the Great Recession.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: housing market, Real Estate

Forecaster Who Claims He Called The Housing Bubble Says Nashville Home Sales Are Peachy Until 2020

Meribah Knight

December 28, 2016

Home sales in Nashville have surged in recent years. The median price for a single family home is up by nearly half since 2012. Most realtors and…

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Growth, housing market, Real Estate

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