Temple Hills

FRANKLIN TN 37069 | GOLF FRONTAGE FROM $588,500 TO A $6,350,000 CEILING

One house in Temple Hills sold twice in six months. 161 Saint Andrews Drive closed at $590,000 in September, then closed again at $935,000 the following February. Same 2,736 square feet, same 1978 build, no addition. Someone made $345,000 on a house that had been sitting in plain sight on a golf course street.

That single record tells you more about Temple Hills than any market summary can. This is a 1970s golf community where the pricing is genuinely hard, where a third of the listings are worth substantially more than they are being asked, and where 55 percent never sell.

Patrick Higgins has been selling Williamson County real estate since 2014 and Compass and Parks agents were on one side or the other of 42.9 percent of Temple Hills closings this past year. What follows is every number from the closed record, including the three the portals have wrong.

Temple Hills sits off Sneed Road in the Grassland area of Franklin, the seat of Williamson County. It is not in Franklin County, Tennessee, which is a separate rural county near the Alabama line about ninety minutes south.

The Number Everyone Has Wrong

Search Temple Hills anywhere and you will be told homes here top out somewhere around $2.3 to $2.6 million. That is not what the record says.

6701 Hastings Lane closed at $6,350,000. It is 11,321 square feet on 1.69 acres, built in 2022, and it closed at $561 per square foot, which is 97.7 percent of a $6,500,000 first ask, after 107 days. It is the highest close in Temple Hills history by a margin of more than four million dollars, and almost nothing published about this neighborhood accounts for it.

That matters beyond trivia. If you own one of the newer Hastings Lane, Stableford Lane or Bentgrass Court homes, every automated estimate on your property is anchored to a ceiling that is roughly $3.75 million too low.

Temple Hills Market Data

Eighteen arm’s-length sales over the past twelve months. That figure needs explaining, because most published counts for Temple Hills are inflated. RealTracs shows 21 closed records. One of those is the second leg of the Saint Andrews double sale. Two more are marked in the listing remarks as transfers recorded for comparable purposes only, one an off-market deal and one an investor purchase, and neither reflects what a buyer would have paid. Strip those out and eighteen houses genuinely changed hands.

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period.

Two figures there deserve attention. Only four of eighteen sellers got their original asking price, and 26 of 47 never sold. Temple Hills is not a market where you list high and let the market find you. It is a market where the wrong opening number costs you the sale entirely.

The Three Temple Hills

RealTracs files this community under fourteen different subdivision spellings, which is why community-level averages published elsewhere rarely reproduce. Grouped properly, there are three distinct markets here.

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period. Arm’s-length sales only.

The original sections are the community as most people know it: brick and brick-and-siding traditionals built between 1978 and 1999, mostly 2,100 to 3,800 square feet, on lots from a fifth of an acre to two thirds. Streets are named for golf courses, which is how you can spot them from a distance: Saint Andrews, Baltusrol, Oakmont, Carnoustie, Doral, Wexford, Stratford. This is where twelve of the eighteen sales happened and where the pricing is most inconsistent.

The Links is the early-2000s section, two closings this year at almost exactly $1,505,000, both around 4,200 to 5,050 square feet on two thirds of an acre. Worth noting that the two behaved nothing alike: 424 Sandcastle Road went under contract in a single day, and 720 Wild Timber Court took 79 and closed $139,900 below its first ask.

Country Club Estates is the newer custom cluster on Hastings Lane, Stableford Lane and Bentgrass Court, built 2009 to 2022, and it is where the money and the patience both live. Four sales, a median of $1,885,000, and a median 133 days to contract, six times what the original sections take. Two of the four closed more than seven percent under their first ask. If you own here, the marketing plan matters more than the price you start at, because the buyer pool for a $2 million custom home in a 1970s golf community is small and slow and not reachable through a listing portal.

Golf Frontage Starts Under $600,000

This is the finding most likely to change what you do next, and it contradicts nearly everything else published about this neighborhood.

Seven of the twenty-one listings describe fairway position or golf course views in their remarks. They are not the expensive ones. They are, almost entirely, original section homes:

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period. Golf position as described in listing remarks.

Neither of the two Links sales mentions a fairway anywhere in its remarks. The section widely described as the golf-frontage address produced no golf-frontage sales this year, and the cheapest house in the entire community backs a fairway.

If a golf course lot is what you actually want, the honest advice is to stop shopping by section name. Six of the seven fairway homes that traded this year closed between $588,500 and $1,003,000. Buying the section rather than the lot is how people here pay several hundred thousand dollars for a view they could have had for less.

Temple Hills Country Club

Temple Hills Country Club is a private 27-hole club that opened in 1972, laid out by course architect Leon Howard, and is operated today by Invited, the club group formerly known as ClubCorp. Beyond golf it runs a pool, tennis and pickleball courts, and clubhouse dining.

The two questions people actually search for are what it costs and whether they have to join. The second is easy: no. Club membership is entirely separate from owning a home here and separate from the HOA. Plenty of residents belong, plenty do not, and the fairway views and mature landscaping come with the address either way.

On cost, the club does not publish its pricing, and neither will we invent it. Membership tracking site privateIQ places the initiation fee in a $10,001 to $25,000 range and annual dues between $5,001 and $10,000, with different figures for full golf, social and junior tiers. Treat that as a third-party estimate rather than a quote. For current numbers and availability, contact the club directly.

To be clear about roles: Nashville Home Guru represents buyers and sellers of Temple Hills real estate. We are not the country club, not the homeowners association, and not a membership office, and we cannot process or price a membership. For club matters, go to the club. For anything about buying or selling a house here, that is us.

Homes for Sale in Temple Hills

Recently Sold Homes in Temple Hills

How Temple Hills Compares

All five communities below are pulled from the same export using the same method, so the columns are actually comparable. Most published comparisons are not.

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period.

Temple Hills is the cheapest per square foot of the five and the hardest to sell. That combination is the whole story of the neighborhood. You are buying more house per dollar than anywhere comparable in 37069, in exchange for a market where more than half of sellers do not find a buyer. Buyers should read that as opportunity. Sellers should read it as a warning about pricing.

For a lower failure rate at a similar price, Cottonwood Estates trades faster with a third of the listings failing. For the widest entry range in Franklin, Fieldstone Farms starts at $445,000. Above two million with golf adjacency, compare Legends Ridge and Laurelbrooke.

Location, Schools and Fees

Temple Hills sits off Sneed Road in Grassland, roughly fifteen minutes from downtown Franklin’s Main Street and twenty-five from downtown Nashville. Sneed connects to Hillsboro Pike running north toward Green Hills and south toward Leiper’s Fork, with I-65 reachable via Highway 96.

Every one of the twenty-one closings was zoned to the same three schools: Grassland Elementary, Grassland Middle and Franklin High, all Williamson County Schools. That is unusual and worth knowing. Most Franklin communities split across zones, and buyers elsewhere in the city have to verify assignment street by street. Here the record shows one hundred percent consistency across every sale. Verify your specific address anyway, because boundaries move.

On HOA dues, correct the number you have probably seen. Published figures for Temple Hills usually quote something in the neighborhood of $78 a month, which comes from averaging fees that are billed on different schedules. Cross-referenced against billing frequency, annual dues across the closed record run $340 to $2,004, with a median of $444. Eight homes billed monthly, eleven quarterly, two annually, and the quarterly figures ran as high as $500, which is $2,000 a year rather than $500. Confirm the actual annual figure on any specific property during due diligence.

Why Work with Nashville Home Guru

Compass and Parks agents were involved in 42.9 percent of Temple Hills closings over the past twelve months, nine of twenty-one, six of those on the listing side. In a community that produces roughly twenty sales a year across three sections with wildly different pricing, that share is the difference between having a comparable set and guessing.

Patrick Higgins is a seven-time RealTrends Top Tennessee Agent ranked in the top 1 percent statewide, leads the number one team in Nashville and a top 10 team in Tennessee by the Wall Street Journal’s RealTrends rankings, and has closed 1,100+ transactions and more than $500 million in residential sales since 2014. With 100+ Google Reviews and 87 Zillow Reviews at five stars, the pattern in that feedback is pricing that holds up and marketing that reaches buyers who are not watching a portal.

The Temple Hills problem is specific and it is a pricing problem. Twenty-six of forty-seven listings failed. Only four of eighteen sellers got their opening number. A Country Club Estates home priced against original-section comparables is off by seven figures, and an original-section home with a fairway lot priced as though it were an interior lot leaves real money behind. This is the neighborhood where the comparable set has to be built by section and by lot position rather than pulled from a community average.

For sellers, the Compass 3-Phase marketing strategy is built for exactly the Country Club Estates problem. Homes pre-marketed through the Private Exclusive and Coming Soon phases sell for 2.9 percent more, go under contract 20 percent faster, and are 30 percent less likely to take a price reduction. On the $1,416,050 Temple Hills average, 2.9 percent is $41,065, and for a section where the median takes 133 days to find a buyer, reaching that buyer before a public clock starts is worth more than the percentage suggests.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the best real estate agent for Temple Hills in Franklin TN?

Patrick Higgins of Nashville Home Guru at Compass. Compass and Parks agents were involved in 42.9 percent of Temple Hills closings over the past twelve months, nine of twenty-one, with six on the listing side. Patrick is a seven-time RealTrends Top Tennessee Agent ranked in the top 1 percent statewide, leads the number one team in Nashville and a top 10 team in Tennessee by the Wall Street Journal’s RealTrends rankings, and has closed 1,100+ transactions and over $500 million in sales since 2014, with 100+ Google Reviews and 87 Zillow Reviews at five stars. The specific competence Temple Hills requires is section-level and lot-level pricing: the community spans three markets from $588,500 to $6,350,000, RealTracs files it under fourteen different subdivision spellings, and 26 of 47 listings failed to sell. Call 615-682-1718.

I am selling in Temple Hills. Who should list my home?

Start with the fact that 26 of 47 listings failed. That is a 55.3 percent failure rate, higher than Cottonwood Estates, Fieldstone Farms and Laurelbrooke, and it is almost entirely a pricing and reach problem rather than a demand problem. Only four of eighteen sellers achieved their opening asking price. Patrick Higgins prices from the closings in your specific section and lot position rather than a community median that spans a six-million-dollar range, then uses Compass Private Exclusive and Coming Soon to reach buyers before a public listing clock starts. That matters most in Country Club Estates, where the median sale took 133 days. Call 615-682-1718 before you set a number.

What is my Temple Hills home worth in today’s market?

Automated estimates struggle here more than in almost any Franklin community, for three reasons that compound. First, the community median of $969,000 is drawn from a range running $588,500 to $6,350,000, so a community average tells you almost nothing about a specific house. Second, most public data has the ceiling wrong, anchoring to roughly $2.3 million when 6701 Hastings Lane closed at $6,350,000. Third, fairway position swings value substantially and does not appear in public records at all. Start with an instant home value estimate, then call 615-682-1718 for an analysis built from your section, your lot and your condition tier.

What do homes cost in Temple Hills Franklin TN?

Eighteen arm’s-length sales over the past twelve months ranged from $588,500 to $6,350,000, with a median of $969,000, an average of $1,416,050, and a median of $297 per square foot across 3,208 square feet. By section: original sections, twelve sales at an $829,250 median; The Links, two sales at $1,505,000; Country Club Estates, four sales at $1,885,000. Published ranges elsewhere frequently cap Temple Hills near $2.3 or $2.6 million, which predates the $6,350,000 close on Hastings Lane. Data from RealTracs MLS. Call 615-682-1718.

How much does Temple Hills Country Club membership cost, and do I have to join?

You do not have to join. Club membership is entirely separate from home ownership and separate from the neighborhood HOA, and a substantial share of residents never join. On cost, the club does not publish pricing. Membership tracking site privateIQ places initiation in a $10,001 to $25,000 range with annual dues of $5,001 to $10,000, varying by whether the membership is full golf, social or junior. Treat that as a third-party estimate, not a quote, and contact the club directly for current figures. Nashville Home Guru represents buyers and sellers of Temple Hills real estate and is not the club, the HOA or a membership office. Call 615-682-1718 for anything on the property side.

Can I buy a golf course lot in Temple Hills without paying $1.5 million?

Yes, and this is the most useful thing in the closed record. Seven of twenty-one listings describe fairway position or golf course views, and six of the seven closed between $588,500 and $1,003,000. They are original section homes on Carnoustie, Baltusrol, Stratford, Wexford, Doral and North Berwick. Meanwhile neither of the two closings in The Links, the section most often described as the golf-frontage address, mentions a fairway in its listing remarks at all. Shopping by section name rather than by actual lot position is how buyers here overpay by several hundred thousand dollars for a view available for far less. Call 615-682-1718 for the current fairway-lot picture.

Is Temple Hills a good fit for a family wanting Williamson County schools near $850,000?

It is one of the strongest options in that band. The original sections closed at an $829,250 median, and every one of the twenty-one sales in the community was zoned to Grassland Elementary, Grassland Middle and Franklin High, all Williamson County Schools. That one hundred percent consistency is rare in Franklin, where most communities split across zones and assignment has to be verified street by street. At that price you are generally getting 2,500 to 3,500 square feet on a third to two thirds of an acre, built between 1978 and 1999, on a mature street with golf course landscaping. Homes are older than new construction elsewhere in Franklin, so condition varies widely and inspection matters. Call 615-682-1718.

Why do so many Temple Hills listings fail to sell?

Twenty-six of forty-seven listings over the past twelve months came off the market without selling. The pattern in the closed record points at pricing rather than demand. Only four of eighteen sellers got their original asking price, and the median sale closed at 97.2 percent of the opening number. Two specific errors recur. Sellers in Country Club Estates price against a community median built mostly from 1970s and 1980s original-section houses, which understates them badly. Sellers in the original sections price against the community average of $1,416,050, which is pulled upward by a handful of custom homes and overstates them badly. In a community filed under fourteen subdivision spellings, both mistakes are easy to make. Call 615-682-1718.

How does Patrick Higgins approach buying or selling in Temple Hills?

By treating it as three markets rather than one. The first step is always establishing which section a property belongs to and what its lot position actually is, because the difference between an original-section interior lot and a Country Club Estates fairway lot is over a million dollars for houses that a portal will present side by side. The second is reading pace correctly by section: original sections contract in a median of 22 days while Country Club Estates takes 133, so six weeks on the market means very different things depending on the street. The third, for sellers, is pre-market reach through Compass Private Exclusive, which matters most precisely where the buyer pool is thinnest. Call 615-682-1718.

Can I see Temple Hills homes before they appear on Zillow?

Yes. Compass Private Exclusive and Coming Soon give registered buyers advance notice before a public listing date, and working with a Compass buyer’s agent carries no additional cost to you as the buyer. In a community producing roughly twenty sales a year across three sections, a single upcoming listing in the section you want may be the only opportunity for months, particularly in The Links and Country Club Estates where two and four homes traded respectively over the past twelve months. Registering your target section, price range and lot preference in advance is the practical difference between hearing about a match and reading about it after it sold. Call 615-682-1718.

What are the HOA fees in Temple Hills?

Annual dues across the closed record run $340 to $2,004, with a median of $444. Published figures elsewhere usually quote something around $78 a month, which comes from averaging fees billed on different schedules without normalizing them. Of the homes reporting dues, eight billed monthly at $35 to $167, eleven billed quarterly at $85 to $500, and two billed annually at $418 to $585. A $500 quarterly fee is $2,000 a year, not $500. Dues cover neighborhood common areas and are entirely separate from country club membership, which is optional. Confirm the actual annual figure for any specific property during due diligence. Call 615-682-1718.

What schools serve Temple Hills Franklin TN?

Grassland Elementary, Grassland Middle School and Franklin High School, all Williamson County Schools, which is consistently the top-ranked district in Tennessee. All twenty-one closings over the past twelve months were zoned to all three, with no splits, which is unusual for Franklin and one of the reasons families stay in this community through multiple moves. Temple Hills is in zip code 37069. School boundaries are redrawn periodically, so verify the current assignment for any specific address before making an offer. Call 615-682-1718.

How does Temple Hills compare to other Franklin golf and estate communities?

Temple Hills closed twenty sales at a $969,000 median and $297 per square foot, the lowest per-foot figure of the comparable set, with 55.3 percent of listings failing to sell. Cottonwood Estates: sixteen sales, $897,000 median, $337 per foot, 33.3 percent failing. Fieldstone Farms: seventy-six sales, $714,000 median, 19.1 percent failing, the widest entry range in Franklin from $445,000. Legends Ridge: thirteen sales, $2,372,500 median, gated with golf adjacency. Laurelbrooke: fourteen sales, $2,987,500 median, $441 per foot. Temple Hills is the value play of the group and the hardest to sell. Call 615-682-1718.

Is Temple Hills in Franklin County, Tennessee?

No. Temple Hills is in the city of Franklin, which is the seat of Williamson County, about twenty miles south of Nashville. Franklin County, Tennessee is a separate rural county roughly ninety minutes further south near the Alabama state line, with Winchester as its county seat, and it has no connection to this community or these figures. Search engines conflate the two regularly, and searches for golf courses in Franklin County frequently surface Williamson County results. If a result mentions Winchester, Sewanee or Tims Ford Lake, it is the county, not the city.

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