Fountain View

Fountain View is a new-construction community in Thompson's Station, Tennessee, built around a new-urbanism, mixed-use plan. Instead of homes alone, the development pairs single-family residences with a resort-style pool, pickleball courts, and planned on-site retail and dining — the kind of layout designed to put everyday gathering spots within walking distance of home. If you're shopping new construction in southern Williamson County and want a community with an amenity core and a walkable concept, Fountain View is one worth a closer look. Because new-construction details move quickly, treat everything below as a starting point and let us pull the current numbers for you.

The builders and home styles at Fountain View

Fountain View is being built by RG Custom Homes, Dream Finders Homes, and Tennessee Valley Homes, and the homes here are single-family residences. With more than one builder active in the community, floor plans, elevations, and standard finishes can differ from one builder to the next, so it's worth comparing what each offers side by side before you commit to a homesite.

Specific lot sizes, bedroom and bathroom counts, square footage, and which features come standard versus as upgrades aren't something we'll quote from a webpage — those details change by plan and by phase, and they're exactly the kind of thing that should be confirmed live with the builder. When you reach out, we'll gather the current plan list and available homesites from each builder so you can compare real options rather than dated listings.

Amenities and day-to-day life

The amenity package is a big part of what defines Fountain View. The community centers on a resort-style pool and pickleball courts, with retail and dining planned on-site as part of its mixed-use, new-urbanism design. That planned commercial component is the piece that sets the community apart from a standard subdivision — the goal is a walkable hub where shops and places to eat sit alongside the homes.

Because the retail and dining are planned features, the exact tenants, square footage, and timing will firm up over time. If a walkable on-site core is a deciding factor for you, ask about the current status of that commercial phase, and we'll help you understand what's open, what's under construction, and what's still on the drawing board.

Location and commute

Fountain View sits in Thompson's Station, in southern Williamson County. Whether a location works for you really comes down to your own routine — where you head in the morning, where you run errands, and where the people in your life are. Rather than trust a generic drive-time estimate, the smartest move is to clock it yourself: pull up the community address, set your real start and end points, and check the route at your actual departure time on a typical weekday. Traffic patterns vary by time of day, so a midday test drive can read very differently from a weekday-morning one. We're glad to suggest a few addresses to map against based on where you'll be coming and going.

Who it fits

Fountain View tends to appeal to buyers who want a single-family home in a community with an active amenity core — a resort-style pool and pickleball courts close to home — and who like the idea of planned retail and dining within the development itself. If you value walkability and an amenity-forward, mixed-use setting over a more traditional, amenity-light subdivision, this community is built around that preference. The single-family product means you're buying a standalone home, so it suits buyers looking for that format specifically rather than attached or maintenance-style housing.

What to verify before you buy here

• Current pricing — new-construction pricing moves with phase, plan, lot, and incentives, so confirm live numbers before you anchor on any price.
• HOA dues and exactly what they cover — pool, courts, common areas, and any maintenance — plus how dues are assessed.
• Lot specifics — the actual size, orientation, grading, and any premiums on the homesite you're considering.
• Builder warranty and the included-versus-upgrade list — what's standard in the base price and what costs extra, for each builder.
• Build timeline — estimated completion for to-be-built homes and move-in readiness for any inventory homes.
• The status and timing of the planned retail and dining, since those are future phases.
• Your real commute — map it from the community address to the places you actually go, at the times you'll actually drive.

Floor plans by builder

Dream Finders Homes builds several named plans at Fountain View, including the Nottingham (roughly 3,394–4,194 sq ft, 4-6 beds, 2.5-4.5 baths, priced from about $1,087,990), the Kinsale (roughly 3,377–4,250 sq ft, 4-5 beds, 4 baths, priced from about $1,129,990), and the Roderick (roughly 3,895–4,362 sq ft, 5 beds, 4.5 baths, priced from about $1,181,990), per NewHomeSource and Zillow community listings as of 2026. R.G. Custom Homes markets its own plan lineup here under different names — the Annabelle, the Jane Ann, the Grayson, and the Brice — per rgcustomhomestn.com (2026); we don't have published sqft/bed/bath specs for those four, so ask us to pull the current plan sheets when you're ready to compare. As always, treat these as a starting menu — active plans, pricing, and available homesites shift by phase, so we'll confirm what's actually buildable on the lot you like.

Housing mix: estate, executive, and multi-family

Fountain View's own site (fountainviewtn.com, 2026) describes the planned housing mix as "Estate Homes, Executive Homes, and Multi-family" — meaning the master plan calls for more than one home size/price tier plus an attached-housing component, in addition to the single-family plans the three builders are currently selling. If a smaller or attached product is part of your search, ask us for the current status of that multi-family piece, since it isn't part of what RG Custom Homes, Dream Finders, and Tennessee Valley Homes are building today.

Amenities, named

Beyond the resort-style pool and pickleball courts, Fountain View's builder marketing and Redfin's community page (2026) also name a pool cabana, a wiffle ball field, a community park, and neighborhood greenspace/sidewalks as part of the built or in-progress amenity set. The community is professionally managed by Samson Investments, per fountainviewtn.com (2026) — that's the HOA management company, not a school or government entity. Fountain View's own site includes a standard developer disclaimer that some architectural elements, facilities, and amenities described in marketing "are in the planning stages" and "subject to change," which is worth keeping in mind for anything not yet built on the ground.

HOA dues

Nashville Home Guru and Redfin's Fountain View community page both report HOA dues of roughly $150/month (about $1,800/year) covering common areas, landscaping, and amenity development, as of 2026. That figure comes from real-estate aggregator data rather than the recorded HOA declaration, so confirm the current amount and exactly what it covers before you write an offer — we can pull the actual HOA documents for any specific address.

Commute specifics

Builder marketing for Fountain View (Tennessee Valley Homes and R.G. Custom Homes sites, 2026) puts the community at roughly 10 minutes from Historic Downtown Franklin, 10 minutes from Cool Springs Mall, 20 minutes to Downtown Nashville, and 25 minutes to Nashville International Airport, with direct access to I-65 and a connection to I-840. Those are marketing-stated drive times under free-flowing conditions, not a guarantee for your actual commute — Middle Tennessee's I-65 corridor backs up at rush hour, so run your own test drive at the time of day you'll actually be driving it before you count on any of these numbers.

Zoned schools

Builder marketing for Fountain View lists Heritage Elementary, Heritage Middle, and Independence High School as the nearby Williamson County Schools campuses, per Tennessee Valley Homes and R.G. Custom Homes (2026). School zoning is assigned by home address and can change, so confirm the zoned schools for the specific lot you're considering directly with Williamson County Schools, and pull the current GreatSchools.org and Tennessee Department of Education report cards for any school you're evaluating — we won't characterize school quality here.

What the resale data shows so far

Redfin's Fountain View community page (2026) reports 18 homes sold in the trailing 12 months, all single-family new construction with a build-year range of 2024–2026, a sale-price range of roughly $1,050,000–$1,426,810, a median sale price of about $1,237,500, and a median size of about 4,082 sq ft — working out to roughly $281–$381 per sq ft with a reported median near $327/sq ft. Dream Finders accounted for 13 of those 18 sales, per the same source. We can't predict where future prices will land; this is simply what's closed so far, and we'll pull current active listings and pending sales when you're ready to compare against what's on the market today.

Property tax, roughly

Williamson County's 2025 certified property tax rate is $1.30 per $100 of assessed value, per the Williamson County Trustee (williamsoncounty-tn.gov, 2025); Tennessee assesses residential property at 25% of appraised value, per the TN Comptroller of the Treasury. On a home appraised at $1,200,000, that math works out to roughly $3,900/year in county tax before any town or special-district add-ons — a rough planning number, not a bill. Thompson's Station is an incorporated town with its own additional municipal tax rate, so confirm the combined county-plus-town rate and any special assessments with the Williamson County Trustee's office for the specific parcel before you budget around it. Tax rates are set annually and will change; verify the current year's rate before closing.

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Common questions about Fountain View

Is Fountain View a gated community? No — the publicly available marketing and listing data don't describe Fountain View as gated; that's a feature of some nearby Thompson's Station communities but not this one, so confirm current gate/access status directly if it matters to you. Who manages the HOA? Samson Investments is named as the professional manager on Fountain View's own site (fountainviewtn.com, 2026). Are the retail and dining spaces open yet? As of 2026, the retail/dining component is still described by builders and aggregators as planned rather than open — we'll confirm current construction status for you before you rely on it as a selling point. Can I compare builders side by side on the same visit? Yes — because RG Custom Homes, Dream Finders Homes, and Tennessee Valley Homes are all actively selling within Fountain View, we can set up a single day of back-to-back builder appointments so you can compare plans, pricing, and included features directly.