Heading into 2026, the Greater Nashville housing market was beginning to show renewed momentum following an uptick in mortgage applications during the fourth quarter of 2025. That increase signaled growing interest from buyers who had been waiting on the sidelines, encouraged by improving affordability conditions and the potential for lower interest rates.

Late last month, unprecedented ice, snow, and prolonged below-zero temperatures from Winter Storm Fern left hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans without power. As temperatures plunged and conditions worsened, homes and properties across the state sustained widespread damage, creating significant challenges for families and communities alike.

Under all is the land. This is the first line of our REALTOR® Code of Ethics Preamble, and while it is often read as philosophy, in Nashville, we take it very literally. Before zoning maps, before development plans, and long before today’s skyline, the physical landscape was already influencing where and how this city would grow.