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Real Estate

For sale in downtown Nashville: one beach. Curious Nashville takes a look at how this sandy triangle came to be.

Cynthia Abrams

June 15, 2023

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Something new has hit Nashville’s hot real estate market: a beach, right smack in the middle of downtown Nashville. But, until it’s sold, Nashvillians driving through the intersection of Lafayette, Division and 4th Avenue may wonder: What is that sandy triangle doing there?

Filed Under: Curious Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: Beach, downtown, downtown Nashville, Little Chill Beach, Nashville real estate, Real Estate, SoBro, traffic

5 businesses that closed in 2022 and why they mattered to Nashville

WPLN Staff

December 29, 2022

Nashville loses more than just buildings when businesses close or get torn down. WPLN profiles five businesses that closed in 2022 and why they meant a great deal to the communities they served.

Filed Under: Business, History, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: culture, dandgure, Exit/In, gentrification, hermitage cafe, meat and three, Nashville, piggly wiggly, Real Estate, top stories 2022

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

An East Nashville record shop is the latest example of a small business trying to gain ownership in a rapidly growing city

Paige Pfleger

November 16, 2021

The owners of The Groove say they need to raise nearly $500,000 by January to remain in place.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Growth, music, music business, Real Estate

Zillow says it’s not purchasing more Nashville homes, but that isn’t a game changer for the housing market

Ambriehl Crutchfield

November 6, 2021

A generic aerial photo of housing

In Nashville, companies and institutional investors are snapping up homes quicker than a person can view them. But Zillow and three other companies are only minor players, which is why the company is shutting down its i-buy operation all together.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: home sales, Real Estate

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

Why Nashville’s Housing Market Might Be Less Crazy in 2018

Meribah Knight

December 7, 2017

Home prices in Nashville may be leveling out in 2018. A forecast by Realtor.com says that’s because the number of homes for sale in the area is increasing.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: home sales, Real Estate

Nashville At Risk Of Home Price Slump, Firm Says

Meribah Knight

October 27, 2017

A new analysis puts Nashville as one of two cities most at risk for seeing home prices decline, elevating the threat level for Nashville’s housing market.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: home sales, 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

Hot Home Sales In Nashville Mean Sellers ‘Ain’t Fixing Nothing’

Blake Farmer

August 7, 2014

It continues to be a sellers real estate market in Nashville. New figures from July show high demand and low supply of homes.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: GNAR, home sales, Real Estate

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