Poplar Farms

Poplar Farms is a new-construction community in Franklin, Tennessee. With an active building pipeline and floor plans that span a wide range of sizes, it gives buyers a chance to get into brand-new construction inside Franklin city limits — a part of Williamson County where new homes are not always easy to find. Pricing moves quickly here, so we pull the current numbers for you rather than working from anything that may already be out of date.

The builder and home styles

Poplar Farms is built by Meritage Homes. The community is made up of single-family homes, and the floor plans span a broad range — from more compact plans up to much larger layouts — so there is meaningful variety in the lineup. Because the size range is so wide, the right plan really depends on what you need; we can pull the current square footages and help you sort through which plans are actively being offered when you are ready to look.

Meritage builds with energy-efficient construction as part of its standard approach. As with any builder, the specifics of what is included as standard versus what is an upgrade can shift between plans and phases, so it is worth confirming the current spec sheet for the exact plan you are considering rather than relying on a general description.

Amenities and day-to-day living

Community amenities at Poplar Farms are not something we'll list here, because the publicly confirmed amenity details are limited and we don't want to put anything in writing that we can't stand behind. If amenities — a pool, trails, common areas, or anything else — matter to your decision, that's exactly the kind of thing we verify directly before you commit. Call us at 615-265-1000 and we'll pull what's actually offered today.

What we can say is that Poplar Farms sits within Franklin, so day-to-day life draws on the broader Franklin area for shopping, dining, parks, and services. The right way to judge fit is to spend time in and around the community at the hours you'd actually be there.

Location and commute

Poplar Farms is located in Franklin, in Williamson County, south of Nashville. Commute times depend heavily on where you're driving to and when you leave, and traffic on the corridors in and out of Franklin varies a lot by time of day. Rather than quote you a number that may not match your reality, the best approach is to clock it yourself: drive the route from the community to your office, school, or wherever you go most often, at your real departure time, on a normal weekday. That's the only commute figure that actually means anything for your day.

Who it fits

Poplar Farms tends to make sense for buyers who want brand-new construction inside Franklin and who value having a wide spread of floor-plan sizes to choose from. The single-family format and the range from smaller plans up to large layouts mean the community can work for a number of different space needs. Because new-construction pricing and availability move quickly, it's smart to confirm what's actually on offer before you build your shortlist around it — and that's exactly the live information we pull for you.

What to verify before you buy here

• Current pricing — new-construction pricing changes fast, so we'll confirm the live starting number for the specific plan and phase you want before you build your shortlist around it.
• HOA dues and what they cover — confirm the monthly or annual amount and exactly which services and amenities, if any, it includes.
• Lot specifics — lot sizes, dimensions, orientation, and which homesites are still available, since these aren't fixed in the public listing data.
• Builder warranty and the included-versus-upgrade list — get the current spec sheet so you know what's standard and what costs extra for your chosen plan.
• Build timeline — current construction and delivery estimates for the phase you're buying into.
• The real commute — drive your actual routes at your actual departure times before you decide.

The two builders, in plain terms

Poplar Farms is a joint development between two builders working side by side on the same footprint, and it's worth understanding the difference before you start touring. Meritage Homes builds the more attainable side of the community, with single-family plans reported in the roughly $630,000s to $850,000s range as of mid-2026 (per NewHomeSource and Meritage's own community page), spanning about 1,450 to 3,060 square feet across 12-14 published floor plans. Signature Homes builds the community's move-up and luxury side, with plans reported from roughly $1.02 million to $1.38-$1.59 million as of mid-2026 (per Signature Homes and Homes.com), spanning roughly 2,600 to 4,600-plus square feet across more than 20 published plans. Both builders sell out of the same amenity core, so you'll see both price tiers on the same streets. Because both builders update pricing and available plans frequently, we pull the live plan list and current pricing for each builder separately before you tour — don't assume one builder's price sheet tells you what the other is charging.

Meritage's published floor plans at Poplar Farms as of mid-2026 include the Easton, Fraser, Everett, Georgetown, Mackenzie, Vanderbilt, Westbrook, Hastings, Branson (with a Bonus-room version), Marion, and Monroe, ranging from roughly 1,450 to just over 3,000 square feet with 3-5 bedrooms depending on plan, according to NewHomeSource and Meritage's community page. Signature Homes' published lineup at Poplar Farms includes plans such as the Florence, Darcy, Mabel, and Lawson (each offered in multiple elevations), ranging from roughly 2,600 to 4,600-plus square feet, according to Signature Homes' own community page. Plan names, specs, and which ones are actively being sold all shift as the community builds out, so treat this as a starting list to research from, not a current inventory sheet.

The amenity center: The Manor at Poplar Farms

Poplar Farms has a shared amenity center called The Manor at Poplar Farms (also referred to as Poplar Farms Manor in some builder materials), which both the Meritage and Signature sides of the community draw on. As reported by Meritage Homes and Signature Homes on their community pages (as of mid-2026), the amenity core includes a resort-style swimming pool, a fitness center, a clubhouse/social space, a covered patio, a playground, and a play lawn, along with a network of walking trails. Signature Homes' materials also reference a roughly 59-acre nature park with walking trails as part of the broader community footprint. Amenity access, hours, and what's actually built and open at any given point in a growing community can lag the marketing renderings, so we verify what's physically complete and open before you rely on it as a reason to buy.

An HOA covers the shared amenities. As reported by Nashville Home Guru (as of mid-2026), dues have been around $140 per month, said to include common-area and amenity maintenance and, notably, community internet service. HOA dues, what exactly they cover, and any transfer or capital-contribution charges at closing change over time and can also differ depending on which builder's section of the community a given lot sits in — confirm the current HOA documents and dues for the specific address you're considering rather than relying on a figure that may be dated.

Where Poplar Farms sits and how it was developed

Poplar Farms sits on Franklin's east side off Clovercroft Road, in the 37067 zip code, on what was previously the Ingraham family's cattle farm — reported as nearly 300 acres by the Williamson Scene at the time of groundbreaking. Meritage Homes broke ground on the community on May 12, 2023, according to the Williamson Scene, with more than 125 acres of the roughly 300-acre tract set aside as greenspace and a total of 546 single-family homesites planned across the full build-out (Meritage's figures at groundbreaking; the final built count can differ from the original plan as phases proceed). As part of the development, Meritage committed a reported $12 million toward extending Market Street to TN-96/Murfreesboro Road and adding access points intended to ease traffic on Clovercroft Road, per the Williamson Scene — infrastructure that, if and when fully built, would affect how the community connects to the surrounding road network.

For day-to-day location context: Poplar Farms is reported to be within about 10 minutes of the Cool Springs shopping and dining corridor (home to retailers like Whole Foods and Williams-Sonoma), with reasonably direct access toward Brentwood and westbound I-65, according to Nashville Home Guru. As always, don't take a written commute estimate at face value — drive your own routes, at your own departure times, before you decide.

Schools assigned to Poplar Farms

Multiple builder and aggregator sources (Meritage, Signature Homes, and Nashville Home Guru, as of mid-2026) report Poplar Farms as zoned to Williamson County Schools, with Trinity Elementary, Fred J. Page Middle School, and Fred J. Page High School named as the assigned schools. We won't characterize the quality of any of these schools here — school zoning can change, and the only way to know what applies to a specific address is to confirm current zoning directly. Pull the current report card for each school from GreatSchools.org and the Tennessee Department of Education, and reconfirm zoning for the exact lot you're considering, since attendance lines can be redrawn as a fast-growing area like this one builds out.

Price and sales context — dated, sourced, not a prediction

Nashville Home Guru's analysis (as of mid-2026) of a sample of 74 closed sales at Poplar Farms reported a median sale price across both builders of roughly $1.10 million, with the Meritage side showing a reported median around $788,000 and the Signature side a reported median around $1.22 million, and price-per-square-foot across the sample ranging from roughly $254 to $374. A separate report citing NewHomeSource figures put Meritage's community-wide starting price at roughly $631,990-$775,670 depending on the month sampled in 2026. These are historical, dated data points from named sources, not our estimate of value and not a forecast — new-construction pricing at an active community like this changes phase to phase, and we can't predict where prices go from here. Always confirm the live price sheet for the specific plan and lot you want.

One data point worth flagging for buyers doing their own research: a January-2026-referenced figure cited roughly 85 closed homes at Poplar Farms as of that point, against a total planned build-out in the hundreds of homesites — meaning that as of when we last checked, the community was still meaningfully mid-build, with additional phases, plans, and pricing still to come. That also means new phases can open with different pricing, different available plans, and different homesite locations than what's listed today, so it's worth asking specifically which phase and section any listing you're looking at belongs to.

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Common questions about Poplar Farms

Is Poplar Farms one builder or two? Two. Meritage Homes builds the more attainable single-family plans, and Signature Homes builds a separate, higher-end lineup of single-family plans in the same community, sharing the amenity center.

What amenities does Poplar Farms have? Builder materials describe a shared amenity center — The Manor at Poplar Farms — with a resort-style pool, fitness center, clubhouse/social space, playground, and walking trails. Confirm what's actually built and open before treating any of it as a reason to buy today.

What schools serve Poplar Farms? Builder and aggregator sources report Williamson County Schools zoning to Trinity Elementary, Fred J. Page Middle, and Fred J. Page High as of mid-2026 — reconfirm current zoning for your specific address rather than relying on this list alone.

Is Poplar Farms still selling? As of the most recent figures we reviewed, the community was still actively building and selling across multiple phases, with total build-out planned in the hundreds of homesites and a large share of that inventory not yet built or sold. Call us for the current phase-by-phase status.