Embattled 5th & Main Condos Earn FHA Approval

January 20, 2010 by admin · 4 Comments 

The 5th & Main condo project in East Nashville, the first large condo project to enter receivership in February 2009, has received approval to issue FHA insured loans (according to the HUD website). The project has qualified under the new, lower FHA guidelines that only require a project to be 30% presold in order to [...]

Icon in the Gulch Big Winner or Buyers?

January 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

2009 was supposed to be a horrible year for Nashville condo sales, yet the Icon in the Gulch was able to sell and close 84 new condo contracts. By the pure number of closings, the Icon in the Gulch was certainly the big winner in terms of gross number of sales, but many may be [...]

5 Year Nashville Condo Market Analysis

December 13, 2009 by admin · 13 Comments 

The economic recession has affected the US housing market disproportionately. The problem is that the local, regional and nation media outlets are very good at pointing out the obvious bad markets like Las Vegas, Miami and Phoenix, but they are very bad at explaining where the rest of the local markets are in the housing [...]

Advice for Nashville Condo Buyers

November 16, 2009 by admin · 7 Comments 

Quite a few people have been calling, emailing, Facebooking, instant messaging, tweeting and texting me with a million different variations of basically the same two questions. 1) I am a potential condo buyer, where can I buy the best deal in Nashville and 2) Which building(s) are the safest for condo investment? General advice for condo [...]