Farmhouse Downs

Farmhouse Downs at a glance

Farmhouse Downs is an active, selling master-planned community in Murfreesboro, in Rutherford County, planned for 424 total lots across more than 200 acres. It is a new-construction neighborhood being built out in phases — Phase 4 was approved by the Murfreesboro Planning Commission in December 2025, and on-site work has continued into 2026, including a traffic signal installed in May 2026 — so this is a community still actively under construction, not a finished, sold-out subdivision. The land plan and infrastructure were carried by the development team behind the project (Front Street Partners as developer, with Catalyst Design Group handling the civil engineering and landscape architecture), and the homes are single-family residences.

The orientation matters because many new-construction buyers in this corridor arrive from out of state or are relocating across the metro, and Murfreesboro is one of Middle Tennessee's fastest-building markets. Farmhouse Downs sits on the south side of Murfreesboro off Haven Drive, near Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and The Avenue Murfreesboro shopping district. The community offers three home collections — Cambridge, Classic, and Grandview — across two builders, which gives a relocating buyer a genuine range of plans and price points to compare on a single visit rather than committing to one builder sight-unseen.

Who builds in Farmhouse Downs

Farmhouse Downs is a multi-builder community, with Lennar Homes and Meritage Homes both building single-family homes here. For a buyer, that mixed-builder setup is an advantage: you are not locked into one company's plan library, standard-feature list, or incentive structure, and you can walk two builders' model homes and quick-move-in inventory in the same community and compare them side by side.

The home collections offered here — Cambridge, Classic, and Grandview — span a range of plans and footprints, so the right fit depends on how much square footage you need, which homesites are open in the current phase, and which builder's standard features and incentives line up with your budget. Because we tour new-construction communities like this constantly, we help buyers read across both builders' offerings — comparing what comes standard, what is an upgrade, and how the incentives actually pencil out — at little or no cost to you. Builder participation and the specific collections open for sale shift as a community sells through its phases, so it is always worth confirming the current builder and collection for a specific homesite before you plan a trip.

Homes & floor plans

Farmhouse Downs is single-family new construction. The Cambridge Collection is currently selling from $399,990, with homes offering 3 to 4 bedrooms and ranging from about 1,673 to 2,460 finished square feet. Alongside Cambridge, the Classic and Grandview collections give the community additional plan options across the two builders. Lot sizes vary by phase and section; the December 2025 Phase 4 approval platted roughly 13.01 acres into 24 lots, which gives a sense of the homesite density in the newer sections.

Because specific floor plans, standard features, and lot dimensions change by builder, collection, and phase, the most reliable way to see the current menu is on the builders' own community pages for Farmhouse Downs (Lennar and Meritage each publish their available plans, quick-move-in homes, and current pricing for this community). Treat the figures above as the shape of the market here rather than a fixed catalog, and let us pull the live, plan-by-plan numbers for you before you build or write an offer.

Amenities & community life

Farmhouse Downs is built as a master-planned community with shared amenities rather than a bare collection of lots. The amenity set includes a swimming pool, a pickleball court, a dog park, walking trails, a clubhouse, and park areas woven through the neighborhood.

• Swimming pool
• Pickleball court
• Dog park
• Walking trails
• Clubhouse
• Park areas

Day to day, that mix supports the kind of walkable, amenity-anchored living new-construction buyers look for: trails and park areas for getting outside close to home, a clubhouse and pool as a gathering point, and a dog park and pickleball court for everyday recreation. As with any community still in active build-out, some amenities may be phased in alongside the homes, so confirm which are complete and open when you tour.

Location, access & schools

Farmhouse Downs is located off Haven Drive on the south side of Murfreesboro (map address 2813 Haven Drive, Murfreesboro, TN 37127), with interior streets including Gleaning Court and Risda Drive. It sits near Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and The Avenue Murfreesboro, the city's main open-air shopping and dining center, putting day-to-day retail, restaurants, and the university within a short drive. The community is also adjacent to the Farmhouse multifamily project, a 288-unit development by the same overall plan, and the area has seen active infrastructure work — including a traffic signal installed in May 2026 — as the surrounding road network builds out to match the new rooftops.

For schools, Farmhouse Downs is zoned to Black Fox Elementary School, Whitworth-Buchanan Middle School, and Siegel High School. School zoning can change with district boundary adjustments, especially in a fast-growing area, so confirm the current assignment for a specific homesite with Rutherford County Schools before you buy.

What to verify before you buy

Farmhouse Downs is an active, phased community, which means the details that matter most to your offer move week to week. Before you write, confirm the current items below with us so the numbers in front of you are live, not last quarter's:

• Current pricing and available quick-move-in inventory for the collection you want (Cambridge, Classic, or Grandview) — we pull live numbers directly from the builders for you.
• Which phase and section is releasing now, and which homesites are actually open, since Phase 4 and later releases come online over time.
• The lot you are considering — size, orientation, and any premium — because lot dimensions vary by phase and section.
• The HOA: current dues, what they cover, and which amenities are complete versus still being phased in.
• Current builder incentives and which builder (Lennar or Meritage) is building the specific home or homesite you are looking at.

We confirm all of this against the builders' live information before you commit, so you are never deciding off a stale listing.

Working with The Will Johnson Team

We represent buyers in new construction at little or no cost to you, and because we tour communities like Farmhouse Downs constantly, we help you compare Lennar and Meritage plans side by side, read the incentives honestly, and navigate the build from contract to closing. If you are weighing Farmhouse Downs against other Murfreesboro and Rutherford County new-construction communities, we will walk you through the trade-offs with current, verified numbers. Call The Will Johnson Team at 615-265-1000 and we will pull live pricing and availability for you.

Commute & getting around

Farmhouse Downs sits on the south side of Murfreesboro off Haven Drive, and the interstate access that matters for a daily commute is close: I-24 and I-840 are both just a few miles from the community, which puts you within reach of Nashville, the Smyrna/La Vergne industrial corridor, and the rest of Rutherford County without a long backroad drive first. Murfreesboro sits roughly 35 miles southeast of downtown Nashville, a drive that typically runs in the 40-to-45-minute range outside of peak traffic per Google Maps — but Nashville-area rush hour can add meaningfully to that, so if you're commuting downtown daily, we'd encourage you to test-drive it at the time of day you'd actually be driving before you commit to the neighborhood.

Closer to home, residents have access to The Avenue Murfreesboro, the city's open-air retail and dining center, and the Stones River Greenway, a multi-use paved trail system maintained by the City of Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department for walking, running, and biking (verify current mileage and trail maps at murfreesborotn.gov). A Kroger is established in the 37127 area on S Church Street, and Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital — Rutherford County's full-service hospital, at 1700 Medical Center Pkwy — is within a short drive for routine and emergency care alike. MTSU is also nearby, which factors in for buyers with a student, staff, or faculty connection to the university.

How the two builders' collections compare

Farmhouse Downs is organized into three home collections spread across the two builders. The Cambridge Collection is the one with the most published detail: homes range from 1,673 to 2,460 square feet and have listed as low as $379,990 and as high as $510,990 depending on the specific plan, elevation, lot, and any completed upgrades — so a lower "from" price is a starting point, not a ceiling. The Classic Collection adds additional single-family plans — published plan names include the Hamilton, Rosemary, Mayflower, Ashbury, and Kingston — and the Grandview Collection rounds out a third tier of plans within the same community. Pricing, square footage, and included features for Classic and Grandview are not consistently published across the aggregator sites we checked, which is exactly the kind of detail that's better pulled fresh from the builder than quoted from a snapshot.

Because Lennar builds across multiple collections here and Meritage Homes also builds in the community, the practical move for a buyer is to walk more than one collection and, where possible, more than one builder, on the same visit — comparing standard features, structural options, and current incentives side by side rather than anchoring on the first floor plan you see. We do this regularly and can set up a visit that covers more than one builder's inventory in a single trip.

HOA & what it covers

Farmhouse Downs is an HOA community — the pool, pickleball court, dog park, trails, clubhouse, and park areas are maintained through association dues rather than left to each homeowner. Third-party listing sites have published an approximate monthly HOA figure in the neighborhood of $95, but HOA dues on active new-construction communities are frequently adjusted as amenities finish build-out and the association's budget firms up, so we treat any published number as a starting estimate rather than a locked-in figure. Before you write an offer, we'll pull the current dues, the HOA's governing documents, and a clear list of what is and isn't covered directly from the builder or HOA management company for the specific home you're considering.

Investor & buyer tax context

For buyers weighing carrying costs, Rutherford County and the City of Murfreesboro certified new property tax rates in June 2026 following the state's mandated four-year reappraisal: $1.4885 per $100 of assessed value for the county and $0.7529 per $100 for the city (Rutherford County Assessor's office, via WGNS Radio, June 24, 2026). Rutherford County's total appraised market value grew from $52.5 billion in 2022 to $81.7 billion in 2026, with roughly $10.5 billion of that increase coming from new construction — a useful data point on how much building has been happening across the county, Farmhouse Downs included. Your actual bill depends on the assessed value of the specific home and lot, so we'd always recommend running the math on a specific property rather than the county average.

On resale value or price direction, we won't speculate — nobody can reliably predict future home prices, and we don't publish projections we can't stand behind. What we can point to are dated, sourced figures for context: Redfin reported a median sale price of $417,000 for the 37127 zip code as of mid-2026, down 5.2% from the same period a year earlier, while the broader Murfreesboro market showed a median in the mid-$400,000s over the same window, according to Redfin's Murfreesboro housing market data. Those are snapshots of where the market has been, not a forecast of where new-construction pricing at Farmhouse Downs will land — new-build pricing depends on the builder's current phase, lot premiums, and incentives more than on resale comps.

Frequently asked questions

Is Farmhouse Downs finished or still under construction? Still building. City of Murfreesboro building permit records show new single-family permits issued in Farmhouse Downs as recently as May 2026 (addresses on Haven Drive and Gleaning Court, lots in the high 40s), and Phase 4 was approved by the Planning Commission in December 2025 — so expect ongoing construction activity, and confirm which section and lots are complete versus underway before you tour.

How many total homes will Farmhouse Downs have? Per the community's site plan filed with the Murfreesboro Planning Commission, Farmhouse Downs is planned for 424 total lots across more than 200 acres, built out in phases rather than all at once — we'd confirm the current phase count directly with the builders for the latest status.

What are the schools, and can you tell me if they're good? We can share the assigned schools — Black Fox Elementary, Whitworth-Buchanan Middle, and Siegel High — but we don't rate school quality, since that's a subjective call that varies by family. For test scores, ratings, and reviews, we'd point you to GreatSchools.org and the Tennessee Department of Education's report card site, and we always recommend confirming current zoning directly with Rutherford County Schools before you buy, since boundaries can shift.

Will Johnson has personally toured 80-plus new-construction communities across Middle Tennessee, including builders active in Farmhouse Downs, so when you call our team you're getting firsthand comparisons, not just a printout of builder marketing. Call The Will Johnson Team at 615-265-1000 to schedule a tour or get current pricing pulled fresh from the builders.