Downtown Nashville Real Estate Blog

Buy. If you can afford to buy single family homes in desirable areas of town and cash flow them with annual term tenants, you should be in a heavy buy mode. Obviously this is a very broad statement that comes with many stipulations, but the simple answer is that you buy in a down market. The reas...

Bear Sterns is dead, investment bankers across the earth are scattering like ants, and real estate investors are backing out of contracts like ex-Governor Spitzer from his local PTA meetings, but there is good news on the horizon. Yesterday the Fed cut rates ¾ of a point, staving off a few bankin...

A Downtown Nashville Baseball Stadium?I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling disappointed that city officials couldn't work out plans to build the new downtown baseball stadium on the old Nashville thermal plant site. Millions of dollars in unexpected construction costs plus an astronomical cost of an...

There is a new massive 400+ unit condo building rising from the ground in the area of Nashville known as "The Gulch" that might become the symbol of national real estate investment greed. The Icon was pre-sold almost 2 years ago in a cloud of heavy speculation and an atmosphere of such frenzy tha...

The new Nashville convention center is one step closer to reality as the Metro Council agrees to fund all predevelopment activities required to build the center. Funding for the pre-development work will be limited to the money brought in by revenue sources already in place for the project. Metro...

Giarratana Development's Signature Tower is not the latest casualty of the subprime financial market debacle, but for the first time I have to admit that the March 31st deadline looms heavy on my conscious. The Signature Tower is developer Tony Giarratana's dream building, a 70 story luxury Tower...