Norman Creek

Norman Creek is a small Pulte Homes community in Hendersonville, built out between 2019 and 2021 around a neighborhood pool and now fully sold out. It trades entirely on resale today, where homes run roughly 2,744 to 3,175 finished square feet and have changed hands in the $600,000s to low $700,000s.

Because it is built out, the value here is a turnkey, recent-construction home in an established pool community near Drakes Creek — not a lot to customize. Here is what is actually in Norman Creek and what the homes trade for.

The builder: Pulte Homes

Pulte Homes, founded in 1950, is one of the country's largest production homebuilders and part of publicly traded PulteGroup. It has built across the Nashville metro for decades, and Norman Creek is one of its Hendersonville communities.

Pulte is a production builder: buyers choose from a curated set of "Life Tested" floor plans — layouts the company refines from owner feedback for everyday livability — then personalize finishes and structural options through Pulte's design process rather than designing a home from scratch. Pulte backs its homes with a limited builder warranty that includes a 10-year structural term, which transfers to subsequent owners and is a reason these resales still carry coverage.

The homes & floor plans

Norman Creek is all single-family, three to five bedrooms, two to four baths. Pulte's plans here started around 1,842 square feet, but the homes that were actually built and now resell trend much larger — roughly 2,744 to 3,175 finished square feet — reflecting the bigger plans, bonus rooms, and finished options buyers chose. Most are four- and five-bedroom homes.

For a sold-out community the relevant figures are what the standing homes are, not a current plan sheet: expect a two-story, four-or-five-bedroom home near 2,800–3,200 square feet, typically with a main-level primary or guest suite and a flex/bonus room. A recent example is a five-bedroom, three-bath home on Keats Court.

Amenities

• Community swimming pool
• Tot lot (children's playground)
• Sidewalk-connected streets within a compact, low-traffic layout

The HOA

HOA dues at Norman Creek run about $145 to $154 per month based on recent resale listings. Those dues fund the community pool, the tot lot, and upkeep of the shared common areas — the amenities that set this pocket apart from the surrounding non-HOA streets.

Location, commute & taxes

Norman Creek sits in Hendersonville (Sumner County), in the Drakes Creek part of town, with the community entrance off Norman Way. Off-peak drive times from here:

• Downtown Nashville — about 22 miles, roughly 30 minutes via Vietnam Veterans Parkway (SR-386) to I-65 South
• Nashville International Airport (BNA) — about 20 miles, roughly 25–30 minutes
• Cool Springs / Franklin — about 38 miles, roughly 45 minutes via I-65

Property taxes combine the City of Hendersonville rate of $0.5883 per $100 of assessed value and the Sumner County rate of $1.42, for $2.0083 per $100. Tennessee assesses homes at 25% of appraised value, so a $675,000 home runs about $3,390 a year.

Norman Creek is zoned to Sumner County Schools: Dr. William Burrus Elementary at Drakes Creek, Knox Doss Middle School, and Beech Senior High School.

How it compares

Among Hendersonville new-construction neighborhoods, Norman Creek is the small, established, pool-and-playground option in the $600,000s–low $700,000s resale tier — a step up in size from entry communities but without the big amenity package of a master-planned neighborhood. If you want brand-new construction with full builder warranties and homesites still to pick, look at Oak Creek Estates (Schell Brothers) or Millstone (Pulte and Schell Brothers), both still selling. If you want the resort-style amenities — pools, fitness, trails, events — Durham Farms is the larger draw. Norman Creek fits a buyer who wants a recent, move-in-ready 2,800–3,200-square-foot home in a quiet pool community and is comfortable buying resale.

The resale market

Norman Creek is sold out by the builder, so every purchase here is a resale. Recent closings have landed between about $600,000 and $720,000, on finished square footage of roughly 2,744 to 3,175, which pencils out near $238 per square foot. Inventory is thin — often only a home or two on the market at a time, with listings recently around $674,900 — so homes move when they hit and it pays to be set up to see them early.

HOA management & who to call with questions

Norman Creek's HOA is managed by Ghertner & Company, a Nashville-based community-association manager that has served Middle Tennessee since 1968 and lists Norman Creek among the associations it manages (Ghertner & Company, ghertner.com, accessed 2026-07). Dues run about $145–$154 a month based on recent resale listings, covering the pool, tot lot, and common-area upkeep. If you're under contract, ask your agent to pull the current HOA questionnaire, budget, and reserve study from Ghertner directly — dues and reserve health can change year to year, and the packet is the only fully current source.

Nearby parks & Old Hickory Lake access

Norman Creek's Drakes Creek location puts it close to Drakes Creek Park, a roughly 121-acre City of Hendersonville park with ballfields, walking trails, a Hendersonville Greenway connector, and a gravel boat ramp onto Drakes Creek, a finger of Old Hickory Lake (City of Hendersonville Parks & Recreation, hvilletn.org, accessed 2026-07). For buyers who boat or fish, that public ramp is the practical lake-access point for this part of Hendersonville — Norman Creek itself has no private marina or lake frontage.

What to verify before you write an offer

Pricing context (dated)

As of May 2025, third-party listing aggregators showed Norman Creek homes averaging roughly $714,000 on about 2,995 finished square feet, or about $238 per square foot (Compass market data, compass.com, accessed 2026-07) — consistent with the $600,000s–low $700,000s range and roughly 2,744–3,175 square foot band already documented from recent closings. We can't predict where prices go from here; the only reliable number is a same-week comp pull, which we're glad to run for any specific home you're considering.

Frequently asked questions

Can I still buy new construction in Norman Creek? No — Pulte sold out the community, with builder and aggregator listings showing the last homes closing in 2024. Every purchase here today is a resale.

Does the Pulte warranty still apply to a resale? Pulte's limited builder warranty includes a 10-year structural term that transfers to subsequent owners, so a resale can still carry coverage — confirm the remaining term and transfer paperwork for the specific home before you close.

Is there lake access in the neighborhood? Not private lake frontage within Norman Creek, but the public boat ramp at nearby Drakes Creek Park provides access to Drakes Creek and Old Hickory Lake.