We no longer publish a days-on-market figure for individual Middle Tennessee towns, and this article has been rewritten to say so plainly. An earlier version ranked about a dozen towns against each other by market time, using public-aggregator snapshots taken in different months. We withdrew every one of those figures in September 2026, including the ones that made a town look good. Franklin's and Spring Hill's figures had already been withdrawn earlier for reasons of their own: one traced to a new-construction-only subset, the other measured the age of listings still on the market rather than how long a sale took.
Why did you withdraw the town days-on-market figures?
Because a town median mixes two different kinds of sale. When a buyer contracts on a new home before it is built, the MLS usually records that sale at 0 days on market. In a town where new construction is a large share of closings, those 0-day records pull the median down, so the town reads as quicker than its resale market actually is. When we set presales aside on our own MLS data for two neighboring Sumner County towns, the order of the two towns reversed. A ranking that flips depending on whether presales are counted is not something a buyer or seller should plan around.
The figures we had been carrying compounded the problem. They came from different aggregators, covered different months, and did not say whether presales were in or out, so the ranking compared numbers that were never measured the same way.
What should a buyer or seller look at instead?
- •Closed comparable sales for the specific street, home type and price band, pulled on the day you ask.
- •Resale and new-construction sales read separately, so a builder's presales do not set the clock for a resale home.
- •The listing history of the homes a property will actually compete with: when each one listed, whether its price changed, and when it went under contract.
- •Months of supply for the segment you are in, where a source publishes one we can check.
Do you publish any days-on-market figure?
Only with a label. Where our county pages print a median days on market, the label says it includes new-construction presales the MLS records at 0 days, and we do not put two towns' figures side by side.
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By Will Johnson — U.S. Army veteran and former ICU nurse / CRNA. Knowledge-broker focused on honest, data-driven Middle Tennessee real estate. eXp Realty.
