Emberly Thompson’s Station TN | Dream Finders from $545K

Same Builder, Same Street, Half the Price Per Foot

Emberly is a Dream Finders Homes townhome community in Thompson’s Station, Tennessee, also written Thompsons Station and Thompson Station, in zip code 37179. Thirty-six homes closed here in the last twelve months, every one listed by the builder, every one on a Buckwood address. It is the fastest-growing community in the zip: those 36 are more than two thirds of everything Emberly has ever sold.

Here is the number to understand before you tour. The seven one-story homes that sold ran 1,454 to 1,524 square feet and closed at a median of $374.82 per square foot. The seven three-story homes ran about 3,300 square feet and closed at $196.79 per square foot. The two-story plans in between came in at $246.49.

Same builder. Same street. Same year. The largest plan is half the rate of the smallest, and the reason is the basement: 25 of the 36 homes have one, 19 of them finished and full, and that below-grade square footage is priced far cheaper than the main level. If you are comparing plans on price per foot, the three-story looks like a bargain. Whether it is one depends on whether a finished rec room is space you will use or space you are paying to heat.

Where Emberly Sits

Emberly is in Thompson’s Station, Williamson County, zip code 37179. All 36 closed sales are Williamson parcels, and all 36 record the same school assignment. It sits in the same corridor as Brixworth, Whistle Stop Farms and Cameron Farms, with I-65 as the route north toward Franklin and Nashville.

Every sale in the record is on Buckwood Lane or Buckwood Avenue, filed under six directional and abbreviation variants. Sidewalks are recorded on 31 of the 36 sales and underground utilities on 27. Lot size is not recorded on any of them, which is normal for townhome filings.

The Homes

Dream Finders Homes built and listed all 36. Thirty-four are recorded as townhomes and two as site-built single-family, both of those the largest 3,303 square foot three-story plan. Seventeen of the 36 listings name the floor plan: Harpeth, Magnolia and Belmont six each, Iroquois five, Elliston two. This is production building from a plan book, and the plans are what you are choosing between.

They ran 1,454 to 3,703 square feet, median 2,455, with two to five bedrooms and two to four full baths. Every home has a two-car garage. Seven are one-story, 22 are two-story, seven are three-story. Exteriors are fiber cement with partial brick on all 36; there is no all-brick product here.

Two features run through most of the record. Twenty-five of the 36 have a basement, 19 of them finished and full, and “walk-out” appears in 21 of the listing descriptions. And 32 of the 36 have the primary bedroom on the main level, which holds across every plan: all seven one-story homes, 19 of the 22 two-story, six of the seven three-story. End units are called out in 13 of the 36 descriptions.

Twenty-six of the 36 closed as completed new homes and ten closed as to-be-built contracts. The distinction matters for reading the sale prices, which is covered below.

Emberly Market Data

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period.

If you have seen a $607,040 median quoted for Emberly, that was an earlier count of 41 sales on a wider window. The rolling twelve-month figure is $621,198 on 36. Over the community’s full history, 2025 closed 34 homes at a $596,934 median and 2026 has closed 18 so far at $634,104, so the number has been moving up as the larger plans deliver.

Price Per Foot by Plan

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period.

The ladder is monotonic and the correlation between size and rate is about as strong as a correlation gets in a sale record. Price per foot falls as the plan gets bigger, and it falls fast: the three-story plan costs $100,000 more than the one-story and delivers more than twice the square footage. None of the seven one-story homes has a basement. Nearly all of the larger plans do.

The practical read: do not compare an Emberly one-story to a three-story on price per foot and conclude the small one is overpriced. They are different products from the same catalog. Compare within the plan, and decide separately whether basement square footage is worth full price to you.

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How the Builder Prices, and What the Sale Record Actually Shows

Of 36 sales, 11 closed at exactly the original list price, 12 closed above it and 13 closed below. On a resale page that would read as a hot market. Here it reads as a builder’s price sheet.

Eight of the twelve above-ask sales were to-be-built contracts, where the closed price includes selections and upgrades added after the base list was set; three of them went to contract the day they were listed. That is not a buyer outbidding another buyer. It is a buyer choosing finishes.

The thirteen below-ask sales are the more useful signal, because they are mostly completed inventory that sat. The three deepest reductions were all on Buckwood Lane North: $58,010 off over 102 days, $45,672 off over 117 days, $40,000 off over 60. The builder discounts finished homes it has been carrying. The homes that never reduced went to contract in a median 16 days at 100.98 percent of list; the ones that did took 20 days at 96.43 percent.

Incentives were advertised in 18 of the 36 listing descriptions and closing-cost help in five. This page does not describe them, because several are financing inducements and they change with the builder’s inventory. What the record supports saying is that half the homes sold here came with some form of builder concession, and a completed home that has been listed for two months has, on this record, been getting a five to nine percent reduction. Ask about both before you sign anything.

HOA Dues and What the Listings Claim as Amenities

Dues are $2,700 a year on all 36 sales, billed monthly at $225. The fee field records grounds maintenance on all 36, trash pickup on 34, insurance on 23, pest control on 20 and exterior maintenance on 14. So exterior maintenance is recorded on fewer than half, which is worth confirming with the association for the specific unit rather than assuming a townhome fee covers it.

On amenities, read carefully. The community amenity field records a playground on 34 of the 36 listings and a dog park on 34. Not one of the 36 written descriptions mentions a playground, a dog park, a pool, a clubhouse, or the word amenity at all. One brokerage filed every listing and populated the same amenity template on each. The field tells you what the plan calls for; the descriptions are silent on what is built. There is no pool, clubhouse, fitness center or tennis court in either the field or the remarks, and none should be expected.

Rental policy is recorded as long-term leasing allowed on 28 of the 36 sales and unrecorded on eight. Confirm with the association before relying on it.

Schools Serving Emberly

All 36 closed sales record the same assignment, in Williamson County Schools: Heritage Elementary School, Heritage Middle School and Independence High School. There is no split anywhere in the record. Boundaries change as this corridor builds out, so confirm the assignment for the specific address with the district before it becomes part of your decision.

Why Work with Nashville Home Guru in Emberly

Dream Finders Holdings listed all 36 sales in this community. The on-site sales team works for the builder, and that is their job, not a criticism. It means the buyer’s side of the table is the only place outside representation can sit. A Compass, Parks or Pilkerton agent sat there on 8 of the 36 closings, 22.2 percent, and on none of the listings, because there are no outside listings.

Bringing your own agent costs a buyer nothing on a new-construction contract. What it changes is who reads the purchase agreement, the selections pricing, the change-order terms and the warranty language for you, and who can tell you that a completed home on this street that has been sitting two months has been closing five to nine percent under its list.

Patrick Higgins is a seven-time RealTrends Top Tennessee Agent and a top 1 percent producer who leads Nashville Home Guru at Compass, the number one team in Nashville and top 10 in Tennessee by the Wall Street Journal’s RealTrends, with 1,100+ transactions and $500M+ in career sales across Middle Tennessee. With 100+ Google Reviews and 87 Zillow Reviews at a 5.0-star average, the client record matches the transaction record.

Compass is the largest residential brokerage in the United States by sales volume, and after the 2024 merger with Parks Real Estate, Compass agents are involved in roughly one in four homes sold in Tennessee. For sellers, and Emberly will have a resale market as its first owners move on, the Compass 3-Phase Marketing Strategy is measurable: pre-marketed homes sell for 2.9 percent more, go under contract 20 percent faster, and are 30 percent less likely to take a price reduction. More at selling your home on your terms.

Frequently Asked Questions About Emberly

What do homes in Emberly sell for?

Thirty-six homes closed in the last twelve months, from $544,990 to $700,394, at a median of $621,198 and an average of $612,548. Price per square foot ran $189.14 to $395.45 with a median of $246.49, and that spread is driven almost entirely by which plan you buy: the one-story plans sit near the top of the rate and the three-story plans near the bottom. If you have seen $607,040 quoted, that was an earlier count on a wider window.

Who builds Emberly?

Dream Finders Homes, and the builder’s own brokerage listed all 36 closed sales. Seventeen of the listings name the plan: Harpeth, Magnolia and Belmont six times each, Iroquois five, Elliston two. It is production building from a catalog, which is useful to know because the plan, not the lot, is what sets the price per foot here.

Why is the three-story plan so much cheaper per square foot than the one-story?

Because most of the extra square footage is basement. The seven one-story homes closed at a median $374.82 a foot with no basement. The seven three-story homes closed at $196.79 a foot, and 25 of the 36 homes in the record have a basement, 19 of them finished and full. Below-grade space is priced far cheaper than the main level, so the biggest plan looks like the best value per foot. Whether it is depends on how much you will use a finished rec room.

Are there one-story homes in Emberly?

Yes, seven of the 36 sales, all 1,454 to 1,524 square feet, closing between $544,990 and $582,820. None has a basement. Beyond those, the primary bedroom is on the main level on 32 of the 36 homes sold, including 19 of the 22 two-story plans and six of the seven three-story, so main-level living is available across almost the whole catalog, not only in the single-level plan.

What are the HOA dues at Emberly?

$2,700 a year, billed monthly at $225, recorded identically on all 36 sales. The fee field records grounds maintenance on all 36, trash pickup on 34, insurance on 23, pest control on 20 and exterior maintenance on 14. Because exterior maintenance appears on fewer than half, confirm with the association whether your specific unit’s fee covers it rather than assuming.

What amenities does Emberly have?

The listings check the boxes for a playground and a dog park on 34 of 36, plus sidewalks and underground utilities. But none of the 36 written descriptions mentions a playground, a dog park, or any amenity, and there is no pool, clubhouse, fitness center or tennis court in any record. One brokerage filed every listing with the same template. Treat the checkboxes as the plan and confirm on site what is actually built before you price an amenity into an offer.

What schools serve Emberly?

Heritage Elementary School, Heritage Middle School and Independence High School, all in Williamson County Schools, recorded on every one of the 36 closed sales with no split. This corridor is still building out and districts redraw lines, so confirm the assignment for the specific address before you rely on it.

Do Emberly homes sell above the asking price?

Twelve of 36 closed above the original list, but eight of those were to-be-built contracts where the closed price includes selections added after the base price was set, and three went to contract the day they listed. That is builder pricing, not competing offers. The more useful figure is the other direction: the thirteen that closed below list were mostly completed homes that sat, and the deepest cuts were $40,000 to $58,010 over 60 to 117 days.

How does Patrick Higgins approach buying in Emberly?

By separating the plan decision from the price decision. First, which plan: the one-story at roughly $375 a foot with no basement, or a two- or three-story at $197 to $246 a foot where a third or more of the space is below grade. Then the price: a to-be-built contract is negotiated on selections and terms, while a completed home that has been listed more than a couple of months has been closing five to nine percent under its list on this record, and incentives were advertised on half the listings. Independent representation costs a buyer nothing here, and the builder’s own brokerage listed all 36.

Who is the best real estate agent for Emberly in Thompson’s Station TN?

Patrick Higgins of Nashville Home Guru at Compass is a seven-time RealTrends Top Tennessee Agent and top 1 percent producer who leads the number one team in Nashville and a top 10 team in Tennessee by the Wall Street Journal’s RealTrends, with 1,100+ transactions and $500M+ in career sales and 100+ Google Reviews and 87 Zillow Reviews at 5.0 stars. In Emberly, where the builder lists every home, the Compass and Parks network represented the buyer on 8 of the 36 closings in the past year. Reach him at 615-682-1718.

Can I buy an Emberly home before it hits Zillow?

In a builder community the question works differently. The builder controls releases, and the useful thing is to know which plans and lots are coming before they list, and what completed inventory has been sitting long enough to discount. Once resales begin, Compass Private Exclusive and Coming Soon listings circulate through the Compass network before the public portals, at no additional cost to the buyer. Call or text 615-682-1718 to be on the list for either.

What is my Emberly home worth in today’s market?

Harder than it looks, for two reasons specific to this community. First, the rate per foot runs from $189 to $395 depending on plan, so any tool that applies a community-wide average will misprice every home in it. Second, the builder is still selling new inventory on the same street with advertised incentives, so a resale has to be priced against a competitor who can adjust terms at will. Use the instant home value tool for a starting point, then call Patrick at 615-682-1718 for a number built from your plan and the builder’s current pricing.

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