Snapshot-aligned analysis of contract velocity, price cuts, and segment splits across nine Middle Tennessee counties — published in the data.
1,856 Single Family homes went under contract in Greater Nashville in the last 31 days, against 2,234 last year. There are 5.25 active listings per contract, the highest of any week in the 4 years of data. Condos are at 7.85.
Read the briefing →2,231 Single Family homes and condos went under contract in the last 31 days, 13.4% below last year and 16.3% below 2024, the largest declines of any week in 2026. The 30 year mortgage rate went from 6.75% to 7.57% in 5 weeks.
Condo contracts fell to 379, 11.2% below last year and below all three prior years, a month after being 11.7% above. Resale condos are 17.5% below last year, the 30 year mortgage rate went from 6.71% to 7.19% over the same weeks, and condos sold for $305 per square foot over the last 12 months, 6.8% below the year before.
Rutherford closed 441 homes in the last 31 days vs 507 last year, below all three prior years for 4 consecutive weeks, and August was the lowest August in the 7 years of closed sales data.
Of the 40 condos bought in June 2022 or later and resold this summer, 29 closed below what the seller paid, vs 44% last year and 10% in 2024. Townhouses are at 48% and Single Family homes at 17%.
154 houses under $300K are under contract this week, down 22% vs 2025, 21% vs 2024 and 24% vs 2023. Mortgage rates rose to a 2026 high this August instead of falling like the last two Augusts, and the entry-level band responded first.
Contract volume went negative across NAR's South region in June and in Greater Nashville in July. Nashville's August to date is running 7.7% below last year, with 2,646 homes under contract, below all three prior years.
Redfin migration data through 2026 Q1: Nashville gained +1,356 net movers, down from +4,827 at the 2021 peak. Knoxville now leads all four Tennessee metros, and its top source of net movers is Nashville.
Opendoor bought 4450 Savage Pointe Drive in Franklin for $2,350,000 in April, listed it at exactly that price, cut $115,000 after 45 days, and went under contract at $2,235,000. The estimated result after fees, commissions, and holding costs is a $120,000 to $145,000 loss.
The $1M-$2M band closed 346 listings, up 24.9% and the largest gain of the six price bands, and its 1,937 January-through-July closings are the most of the export's six covered years. Its contracts fell to 232, down 16.8% and below last year for three straight readings. The median price is nearly flat anyway, and a distribution section shows why.
Rutherford County has 390 listings under contract, below every prior year in the data and the fewest since late January. Four weeks ago it was running 12.4% ahead of last year. It is now the weakest of the nine counties against 2025, 2024 and 2023.
Overall single-family price cuts are flat versus last year, but more than half of the cheapest houses, the ones under $300K, have now cut price. That is the highest mid-July share in four years, and the discounting has moved down-market.
Greater Nashville signed 40 fewer contracts than the same week last year, the first meaningful decline since February. The June 10 post predicted the negative number. The bigger news: this week is also 8% below 2024 and 5% below 2023, and the entire gap is in new construction and resale under $500K.
Greater Nashville REALTORS reported a record June median of $537K, but Zillow's home-value index for the same market is flat to slightly down. Both are true, and the gap is a mix shift: what's selling has moved upmarket while the value of a given home went sideways.
Realtor.com says the median asking price fell 2.5% nationally. Nashville's under-$300K tier shows what that number can hide: listings are up 26% YoY, but only 1 in 4 is a detached house, and house sales in the tier are down 87% since 2020.
Nashville and Austin boomed alike into 2022, then split: Nashville sits 1.9% below its peak while Austin is 26.1% below. The Zillow data, a look at property taxes, and the open questions about why.
New construction's share of Greater Nashville home sales fell to 24.9%, a seven-year low. A walk through the evidence, chart by chart, on what happened, with the why left for you to weigh.
The $4M+ market is setting records on both sides of the ledger: closings +45% YTD on top of a record 2025, while active luxury inventory hit an all-time high of 260 and one in four sellers is cutting price.
Metro contract growth swung from +12.7% to +2.9% — but measured against 2024 and 2023, the surge and the fade both disappear. The 2025 base bottomed the week of Liberation Day. The real signals: Davidson, Sumner's pipeline, and the $750K–$1M band.
Four weeks ago the $500K–$1M move-up market was one of Nashville's fastest-growing tiers (+19.5% YoY single-family contracts). This week it's negative (-1.7%), while both the entry level and $2M+ keep booming — the soft spot climbed the ladder.
Greater Nashville's single-family median hit a record $538,000 this week — but price per square foot is up just 0.8%, and condos are doing the opposite (median down 6.7% in Davidson). The record is mix and size, not appreciation.
Non-owner-occupied short-term-rental permits are capped across most of Davidson County. That scarcity hasn't saved the resale market: ~186 active listings, about 8 going under contract a month, a third carrying price cuts, the median sold price down 29% since 2023 — and a third of this year's resales now selling at a loss.
Of 992 Airbnb-tagged Davidson listings since 2023, only 34% sold on the MLS and just 6% slipped out off-market. The investor short-term-rental glut isn't being liquidated — it's being held.
Greater Nashville new-construction closings flipped to +9.4% YoY as April's pending surge reached the closing table — but the year is still 5.8% behind 2025, and the pipeline that drove the rebound has already cooled.
Total active inventory in Greater Nashville is up 8.6% YoY, but the entire increase came from existing-home sellers. New construction is flat-to-shrinking while builder demand grows twice as fast.
SFH $300K–$500K contracts flipped −18 vs 2025 this week — the only band of six that turned negative. Inside the band, all the weakness is on the existing-resale side.
Greater Nashville condo supply hit 5.2 months — buyer's-market territory. Median condo prices down 6.4% YoY. Three closed sales show six-figure losses on properties bought 2022-2023.
The 35% price-cut threshold just got crossed in mid-May — second year in a row, and five weeks earlier than 2024. The seasonal calendar of seller discounting has migrated forward five months in three years.
Pendings are up 17.5% YoY. But closings are still down 9% YTD. The gap will close — or won't — by August.
Contract volume is up 11.3% YoY — the headline read on demand. Look one layer deeper and nothing about it is boring: the very top of the market is decoupling, demand is migrating north, builders are sitting out the rebound, and the cut rate has structurally re-rated. Five threads, none of them resolve cleanly in this week's data.
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