Nexus South

Nexus South at a glance

Nexus South — branded Freedom Village on the ground — is the gated, age-qualified 55-plus village inside Nexus, the roughly 655-acre master-planned community rising at Highway 109 and Albert Gallatin Avenue in Gallatin, Tennessee. Every home in the village is built by D.R. Horton under its Freedom Series active-adult banner: one-story single-family homes and paired villas designed around main-level living, with the owner's suite on the main floor. The village is planned for approximately 860 single-family and attached homes, wrapped around a private 13-acre amenity campus anchored by a 10,000-plus-square-foot clubhouse with an on-site lifestyle director. As of July 2026 it is actively selling, with nine published floor plans starting at $316,990 and roughly ten inventory homes listed.

One orientation point before anything else: Nexus South is one of five collections currently selling inside the larger Nexus master plan, and the only one that is gated and age-qualified. Its siblings are Nexus North (D.R. Horton's all-ages single-family section, now in its final opportunities), the Park Collection and Village Collection (David Weekley Homes single-family on 40-foot and 50-foot homesites), and the Nexus Townhomes (David Weekley, opened late 2025). If you don't meet the 55-plus requirement, those are the parts of Nexus you'd buy in — this page is about the village behind the gate.

The master plan behind the gate: Nexus and Kolter Land

The developer story matters more here than in a typical subdivision, because part of what you're buying at Nexus South is a much larger plan. The master developer is KL Nexus TN LLC, managed by Kolter Land, the land division of The Kolter Group, a Tampa-based land acquisition and development firm. Nexus is its live-work-play master plan for Gallatin: roughly 655 acres (the City of Gallatin lists 654 +/-) at Highway 109 and Albert Gallatin Avenue, north of Red River Road, combining residential villages with a regional business park and a mixed-use area approved for office, medical, retail and services. The approved residential program runs to approximately 1,351 single-family and multifamily dwellings, plus up to 900 apartment units and 1.1 million square feet of commercial and office space. The community opened in 2023, and the homes on the ground were built between 2023 and 2026.

At the May 2023 announcement, Kolter projected a buildout value of more than $2 billion, with residential buildout in roughly five years and commercial in roughly ten. The plans included 124 acres of commercial with a grocery store, office, retail and a limited-service hotel — but no commercial developer had committed at that time, and that's the honest asterisk on every future-town-center rendering you'll see. What the City of Gallatin's development page confirms as of this writing: the first multifamily phase (300 apartments on about 18 acres) is under construction, a second 300-unit phase is approved, the first business-park phase (about 45 acres) is approved, and the 170-lot townhome plan is approved. Translation for a Freedom Village buyer: the surrounding master plan will be an active construction zone for years, and the on-site grocery, restaurants and services are a plan, not a delivery date. If they arrive as approved, the 55-plus village ends up next to genuinely close-at-hand retail; until then, your daily errands run into Gallatin proper.

What the master plan already delivers is concrete, though. Underground utilities are standard throughout Nexus, the City of Gallatin provides water, sewer and electric, AT&T fiber serves the community, and an 8-foot community trail system runs along the main throughways and ties into a 10-foot greenway trail. Two separate amenity campuses anchor the residential side — a six-acre center for the all-ages North Village, and the 13-acre Freedom Village campus reserved for the 55-plus village. That two-campus structure is the practical detail: your amenity center is not shared with the whole 1,351-home community.

The builder, the plans, and what they cost

D.R. Horton is the exclusive builder in Nexus South, building its Freedom Series — the company's active-adult product line, oriented entirely to one-story living. A single-builder village cuts both ways, and it's worth being plain about it. The upside is consistency: one construction process, one warranty structure, one sales office, and a product line designed end-to-end for the 55-plus buyer. The downside is that you can't comparison-shop builders inside the gate the way you can in a multi-builder master plan; your leverage comes from comparing plans and homesites against each other, against the builder's own incentives, and against other active-adult options around Middle Tennessee. That comparison is exactly what buyer representation is for.

Here is the builder-published lineup as of July 2026, starting at $316,990:

• Severn — 1,472 sq ft, 2 bed / 2 bath, priced in the $317,000s
• Bowen — 1,402 sq ft, 3 bed / 2 bath, $341,000s
• Astor — 1,459 sq ft, $348,000s
• Jennings — 1,550 sq ft, $355,000s
• Desmond — 1,707 sq ft, $365,000s
• Arlington — 1,588 sq ft, $431,000s
• Bristol — 1,672 sq ft, $441,000s
• Clifton — 1,796 sq ft, $451,000s
• Dover — 1,883 sq ft, 4 bed / 2 bath, $461,000s

Read that list twice and you'll spot the thing worth asking about: it splits into two distinct price bands with overlapping square footage. The Desmond at 1,707 square feet lists in the $365,000s while the smaller Arlington at 1,588 square feet lists in the $431,000s — roughly a $66,000 jump for 119 fewer square feet. The published sources don't spell out why, and we won't guess in print. The likely candidates are the paired-villa-versus-detached split, homesite premiums, and included-feature packages — and the sales center can tell you exactly which in five minutes. Just don't anchor on the $316,990 from-price and assume the plan you fell for lives in that band.

For wider context: 55places lists Nexus South at approximately 860 total planned homes with observed new and resale pricing from the low $300,000s to the high $500,000s. And across the whole Nexus master plan — all collections, all ages, not just the 55-plus village — the trailing-12-month picture as of July 1, 2026 was 193 closed sales, a median sale price of $409,990 (average $428,836), a sold range of $294,900 to $635,000, and $164 to $323 per square foot with a median of $226. There were 51 active listings at that report date, with a median list price around $416,700 and roughly 57 days on market. Those are dated snapshots of what has actually transacted, not a forecast — we can't predict prices, and neither can anyone else.

The homes: main-level living, villa or detached

The Freedom Series product is deliberately right-sized rather than estate-scale. The current lineup runs 1,402 to 1,883 square feet, two to four bedrooms, all one-story, all with the owner's suite on the main level — the layout that keeps stairs from becoming the deciding factor in how long the house works for you. Published features on homes here include quartz countertops, stainless-steel appliances, covered patios and screened-in porches, and two-car garages. The product splits between detached single-family homes and paired villas; the villa side typically trades some separation between homes for a lower-maintenance footprint, and which plans are which — plus what exterior or lawn maintenance, if any, the HOA takes on for villas — is a first-visit question, because none of it is published.

Lot sizes for the village aren't published either. Within the Nexus product ladder — townhomes, paired villas, 40-foot and 50-foot homesites — the Freedom Series sits at the compact end, so expect right-sized homesites rather than half-acre yards. Treat frontage, yard depth, orientation and drainage as property-by-property questions, and walk the actual lot rather than judging from the plat rendering.

Amenities: the 13-acre Freedom Village campus

The amenity campus is the argument for the village, and it's specific: 13 acres, reserved for the 55-plus village rather than shared with the broader master plan. The published inventory runs: a 10,000-plus-square-foot clubhouse with multiple gathering spaces and a fireplace, a full fitness center, a yoga and aerobics studio, a resort-style pool with lap lanes, pickleball, tennis and bocce ball courts, a covered patio, pavilions, a community grilling area, and an event lawn — with an on-site lifestyle and activities director running the calendar. That last line item is the one that separates a genuine active-adult community from a subdivision with a nice pool: programmed social infrastructure, inside the gate, that a lot of your week can run on without leaving the neighborhood.

Beyond the campus, the 8-foot community trail system along the Nexus throughways connects into a 10-foot greenway trail, and the master plan's future mixed-use area — if built out as approved — would put retail and services adjacent rather than a drive away. Two verification notes, because renderings are not amenities: confirm exactly which campus facilities are built and open today versus still planned, and confirm what access, if any, Freedom Village residents have to the all-ages North Village amenity center and vice versa. The published material describes the Freedom campus as exclusive to the 55-plus village, but the reciprocal-access rules aren't spelled out publicly.

HOA: what's published and what isn't

Here's the honest state of the data. Nexus is a deed-restricted, HOA-governed community, and Freedom Village dues are not published anywhere public that we could find — not by the builder, not by the master developer, not on the aggregators. What is observable: across the whole Nexus community, HOA fees on listings range from about $55 to about $411 per month ($660 to $4,932 a year) depending on section and home type, with the lower end on all-ages single-family in Nexus North and the higher end on the 55-plus village and attached products. So budget toward the upper half of that range and treat the exact figure as unknown until you have it in writing from the sales center. For calibration only: the neighboring Park Collection (David Weekley) publishes $1,932 in annual dues plus a $300 transfer fee and an $800 capital-fund contribution — a different collection with different coverage, but a signal that Nexus associations carry one-time transfer and capital charges worth asking about here too.

What to pin down, in writing: the exact monthly or annual dues for the specific home; whether the village runs a sub-association on top of a master association, and what each layer charges; precisely what the dues cover — the amenity campus, the lifestyle director, the gate, and, on villas especially, any lawn care or exterior maintenance; one-time transfer fees and capital contributions due at closing; and how dues are set and can change while the developer and builder still control the board. If you're budgeting for the long haul, the dues line is not a footnote — it's a permanent second payment, and it deserves the same scrutiny as the mortgage rate.

Location and commute

Nexus fronts Highway 109 (the Albert Arnold Gore Sr. Memorial Highway) at Albert Gallatin Avenue, north of Red River Road. The published drive-time anchors: about 10 minutes to Gallatin's historic downtown square, TriStar Sumner Medical Center within a few miles, and about 30 miles — roughly 30 to 40 minutes, traffic depending — to downtown Nashville. Coming from Nashville, the route is Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (TN-386) to TN-174 to TN-109 North. Highway 109 frontage is a genuine convenience for regional driving — it's the corridor that ties this side of Gallatin to the rest of the metro — and it also means part of the community sits along a state highway, so how close any given homesite is to that frontage is worth checking on foot before you pick a lot.

The drive-time advice we give every buyer applies doubly to a 55-plus purchase: test-drive the routes your actual week points at — the doctor's office, the airport when family visits, church, wherever your life actually runs — from the actual block, at the times you'd actually drive them. A community can be 10 minutes from downtown Gallatin on paper and still be the wrong 10 minutes for your routine.

Lake and golf: the honest answer

There is no private lake access, no marina, and no lakefront homesite inside Nexus — and no golf course inside the community either; the racquet sports (pickleball, tennis, bocce) are the campus's game offering. What Gallatin does give you is Old Hickory Lake minutes away, with public boating and fishing access around the city — proximity that even the townhome marketing inside Nexus leans on. If lake life is a core requirement rather than a nice-to-have, map the specific public access points and marinas against this address before you weight it in your decision.

Schools: names and where to check

Nexus is zoned to Sumner County Schools. Builder pages list Howard Elementary School, Joe Shafer Middle School, and Gallatin Senior High School — but some listing sources show Benny C. Bills Elementary or Union Elementary for certain addresses, because elementary zoning genuinely varies by address inside this community. Verify the assignment for any specific lot directly with Sumner County Schools before you rely on it. We don't rate or rank schools; for performance data, the Tennessee state report card at tn.gov/education and GreatSchools.org are the right independent sources. Even on an age-qualified purchase where no one in the household attends school, having the zoned-school record correct is standard due diligence.

The honest buyer's read

Here's how we'd weigh Nexus South if we were writing the check ourselves:

• The age qualification cuts both ways. The 55-plus rule is a binding eligibility requirement, not a preference — it determines who can buy the home from you later just as it determines whether you can buy it now. Get the exact occupancy rules in writing (minimum ages, spouse and caregiver provisions, guest rules) before you write an offer.
• You're buying into a plan, not a finished place. The homes and the amenity campus are real; the 1.1 million square feet of commercial, the grocery store and the hotel were approved plans with no committed commercial developer at announcement. If they deliver, the location gets more convenient. Until then, expect years of nearby construction — 300 apartments are under construction now and another 300 are approved next door.
• One builder, one gate. Freedom Series consistency is real, and so is the absence of competing builders inside the village. Before deciding the gate is worth it, compare this against other Middle Tennessee active-adult options — that's a half-day of touring that can save a six-figure regret.
• Two price bands on one plan sheet. The lineup runs $317,000s–$365,000s and then jumps to $431,000s–$461,000s with overlapping square footage. Make the sales team explain exactly what the second band buys before you compare plans on price per foot.
• The HOA number is the biggest unpublished fact about this community. Nothing public states the 55-plus village's dues. Get the figure — and what it covers — in writing early, not at the design-center stage.
• The market snapshot is dated and community-wide. The $409,990 trailing-12-month median covers all of Nexus, all ages, through July 1, 2026 — it is not a 55-plus-only number and not a forecast. We can't predict prices; we can pull live comps when you're ready.

What to verify before you buy

The checklist we'd run for any buyer here — none of it is exotic, and all of it is skippable only at your own expense:

• Age-qualification rules — the exact 55-plus occupancy requirements, in writing, confirming your household qualifies. This is the gate everything else sits behind.
• Current pricing, availability and incentives — the $316,990 from-price is dated July 2026. Confirm live pricing, which plans and homesites are actually releasable, and the true cost of any incentive financing against an outside lender's quote.
• Villa versus detached — which of the nine plans are paired villas, what maintenance the HOA covers on each, and how the two products differ in price, footprint and feel. Decide which fits before you fall for a model home.
• The full HOA package — exact dues, what they cover, transfer fee, capital contribution, master-versus-sub-association structure, and how assessments are set while the developer controls the board.
• Amenity campus status — what's built and open today versus planned, and the access rules between the Freedom Village and North Village campuses.
• Master-plan timeline — the current status of the commercial phases, business park and apartments bordering the village, since they shape both the construction years and the eventual convenience.
• Lot specifics — dimensions, orientation, drainage, distance to the Highway 109 frontage, and any lot premium. None of this is published; all of it is knowable.
• School zoning for the specific address via Sumner County Schools — the on-record names vary by address inside this community.
• Builder contract terms — deposit structure, what's standard versus an upgrade, any DHI Mortgage tie-ins on incentives, and the warranty terms in full.
• Build timing and inspections — a realistic completion window on a to-be-built home, plus independent pre-drywall, final and 11-month warranty inspections on any new build, and a lot-level flood-zone check through FEMA's flood map service center.

Nexus South FAQ

Is Nexus South in Gallatin an age-restricted community?

Yes. Nexus South — branded Freedom Village — is a gated, age-qualified 55-plus active-adult community built by D.R. Horton inside the Nexus master plan in Gallatin, Tennessee. The age qualification is a binding eligibility rule set by the builder and the HOA; confirm the exact occupancy requirements in writing, since details like the minimum age for a second occupant determine whether a household qualifies. Buyers who don't meet the requirement can look at Nexus North, the David Weekley Park and Village Collections, or the Nexus Townhomes in the same master plan.

How much do homes in Nexus South cost?

As of July 2026, D.R. Horton publishes nine Freedom Series floor plans starting at $316,990, running 1,402 to 1,883 square feet with two to four bedrooms — from the Severn (1,472 sq ft, priced in the $317,000s) up to the Dover (1,883 sq ft, $461,000s). 55places shows the village's broader new-and-resale band at the low $300,000s to the high $500,000s. New-construction pricing moves week to week; treat these as dated snapshots and confirm live pricing before you anchor to any number.

Who builds homes in Nexus South?

D.R. Horton is the exclusive builder in Nexus South, under its Freedom Series active-adult banner — one-story single-family homes and paired villas designed for main-level living, with the owner's suite on the main floor. The sales center is at 3024 Frankford Cove. David Weekley Homes builds elsewhere in the Nexus master plan (the Park Collection, Village Collection and Nexus Townhomes), but not inside the 55-plus village.

What amenities does Nexus South have?

A private 13-acre amenity campus reserved for the 55-plus village: a 10,000-plus-square-foot clubhouse with multiple gathering spaces and a fireplace, a full fitness center, a yoga and aerobics studio, a resort-style pool with lap lanes, pickleball, tennis and bocce ball courts, pavilions, a community grilling area, an event lawn, and an on-site lifestyle and activities director. An 8-foot community trail system ties into a 10-foot greenway trail. Confirm what's built and open versus still planned when you visit.

What are the HOA fees at Nexus South?

Freedom Village dues aren't published publicly. Across the whole Nexus community, listing-observed HOA fees run roughly $55 to $411 per month depending on section and product type, with the 55-plus village and attached homes toward the higher end of that range. Get the exact dues, what they cover, and any transfer fee or capital contribution in writing from the sales center — or call 615-265-1000 and our team will pull it for you before you make the drive.

Does Nexus South have lake access or a golf course?

No. There is no private lake access, marina or lakefront homesite inside Nexus, and no golf course in the community. Old Hickory Lake is minutes away, with public boating and fishing access around Gallatin. On-site recreation centers on the pool, the pickleball, tennis and bocce courts, and the community trail system.

How far is Nexus South from Nashville and downtown Gallatin?

Nexus fronts Highway 109 at Albert Gallatin Avenue in Gallatin. Published drive-time anchors: about 10 minutes to Gallatin's historic downtown square, TriStar Sumner Medical Center within a few miles, and about 30 miles — roughly 30 to 40 minutes depending on traffic — to downtown Nashville, via TN-109 to TN-174 to Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (TN-386). Drive your own real routes at your real times before you commit; published minutes are averages, not your commute.