Avery Trace

Avery Trace is a master-planned Lennar community in Gallatin, on the Sumner County side of the Nashville metro. What makes it worth a look is the range under one master plan — single-family homes and townhomes, more than one floor-plan collection, and a price of entry that's still reachable for a lot of buyers who've watched Middle Tennessee get expensive. It's the kind of place people land when they want a newer home with a pool and playground close by, without paying for a custom build or a waterfront lot.

This is the honest read on what the community is and isn't — written so you walk in already knowing the questions to ask, instead of figuring them out later.

Where it sits

Avery Trace is in Gallatin, the Sumner County seat northeast of Nashville. The community sits within a short drive of Old Hickory Lake and the Cumberland River — the reservoir on the Cumberland that wraps around this part of Middle Tennessee. That puts public lake access and the river corridor nearby, which is a real part of the appeal for buyers who want lake life close at hand without owning waterfront and paying the waterfront premium.

Gallatin trades a longer commute into central Nashville for more home per dollar than you'll find closer in. Before you commit, drive the actual route to wherever you'll be going regularly — at the time of day you'd really be driving it — so the trade-off is one you've measured, not assumed.

The homes here

Avery Trace is built by Lennar across more than one collection — the Classic collection is selling now, with a Parkside collection noted as coming. Between single-family homes and townhomes, plans run roughly 1,800 to 2,769 square feet, with 3 to 5 bedrooms and 2 to 3.5 baths. The layouts are open-concept, which is the through-line across the floor plans.

The signature is Lennar's Everything's Included program — a set of features the builder includes as standard rather than charging for as upgrades. That's genuinely useful for budgeting, because it narrows the gap between the base price and the move-in price. It also means most of the personalization happens within Lennar's defined packages, so it's worth confirming exactly what's included and where, if anywhere, your choices open up.

Who it fits

The mix of single-family homes and townhomes across more than one floor-plan collection means Avery Trace can fit a fairly wide range — a buyer drawn to the townhomes and the entry price, or someone who wants a larger single-family plan with the pool and playground a short walk from the door. If an on-site pool and a playground are amenities you'd actually use, this community puts them inside the neighborhood rather than across town.

If you're set on a large private lot or land around the home, that's worth checking against what's actually platted here — master-planned communities are designed around shared amenities and efficient lots, and lot sizes weren't part of the published detail we work from.

What to verify before you buy here

New construction in an actively selling, still-building community has its own checklist. The ones that matter most at Avery Trace:

• Get the Everything's Included list in writing for the specific plan and homesite you're considering — confirm what's standard versus an upgrade, so the base price and your real move-in price line up.
• Confirm current pricing, incentives, and which plans and homesites are genuinely available right now — at this price point and stage, those change week to week.
• Ask where the community stands in its build-out and what the Parkside collection adds, including timing for any phase that isn't selling yet — living next to active construction is a real consideration.
• Pin down the HOA: what the dues cover, what they run, and whether they're set or still being established as the community grows.
• Walk the homesite itself — drainage, what backs up to the lot, and how close the amenities and any future phases sit to it.
• Have your own representation from the first visit. Touring with a buyer's agent costs you little or nothing and means someone is reading the contract, the timeline, and the homesite alongside you.

The scale of it, straight from the city

Avery Trace is platted as a 293-unit residential development on 110 acres at 1159 East Main Street, per the City of Gallatin's own development tracker (updated 5/22/2026), which lists the project as under construction. That's useful context for sizing up what you're buying into: this isn't a 20-lot infill pocket, it's a full master-planned build-out, which means construction traffic, phased amenity delivery, and new-neighbor turnover will be part of daily life here for a while yet.

Commute and getting around

Gallatin sits roughly 29 miles northeast of downtown Nashville. The realistic drive from this side of Sumner County into the city runs about 35-40 minutes outside of rush hour via Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (State Route 386), which connects to I-65 in Goodlettsville, or Highway 109, which bypasses downtown Gallatin on its way toward Lebanon and Portland. Neither of those numbers accounts for peak traffic, so if your job has a fixed start time, drive it yourself at that hour before you sign anything.

Builder lineup and what's actually on the ground

Lennar is the sole builder at Avery Trace, selling through its Classic collection now, with a second collection called Parkside listed as coming soon. Within Classic, Lennar is currently building five floor plans: the Ashbury (3 bed, 2 bath, ~1,800 sq ft), Hamilton (4 bed, 2.5 bath, ~1,933 sq ft), Primrose (4 bed, 2.5 bath, ~2,167 sq ft), Mayflower (4 bed, 3 bath, ~2,488 sq ft), and Kingston (5 bed, 3.5 bath, ~2,769 sq ft). Builder-published pricing across these plans has ranged from about $399,990 to $499,990 as tracked in early July 2026 — a wider spread than a single "from" price suggests, and one more reason to get the current price sheet for the specific plan you want rather than anchoring to a headline number.

HOA and what it covers

Third-party listing aggregators tracking Avery Trace in July 2026 show HOA dues starting around $40 a month, which would typically fund the pool, playground, and common-area upkeep in a community like this. Builder-quoted HOA figures at this stage of a build-out are often provisional and can shift as more of the 293 units close and the association's real operating costs come into focus — get the current dues, the reserve fund status, and what's actually covered in writing from Lennar's sales office before you rely on any number you've read online, including this one.

Schools

Avery Trace falls in the Sumner County school district. We don't rate or rank schools — for zoned-school assignment and performance data, check the Sumner County Schools zoning tool and GreatSchools.org or the Tennessee Department of Education report card directly, using the specific address of the home you're considering, since zoning can vary block to block.

How it stacks up nearby

Gallatin has several new-construction communities selling at the same time, including Lennar's own Nichols Place townhome community elsewhere in Gallatin and other Sumner County subdivisions in various stages of build-out. If Avery Trace's price point or floor plans don't quite fit, it's worth seeing what else is active in Gallatin and greater Sumner County before you decide — we track new releases across the county and can tell you honestly how Avery Trace compares on price per square foot, HOA cost, and how far along each build-out actually is.

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