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Meta title: June 2026 East Nashville Market Update | BaseNashville Meta description: June 2026 single-family home data for McFerrin Park, Cleveland Park, and Highland Heights. Analyzed by Nick Irwin at BaseNashville and Compass.
What are homes selling for in McFerrin Park, Cleveland Park, and Highland Heights in June 2026? The median sale price for single-family homes in MPCPHH was $585,000 in June 2026, down 5% from $615,000 in June 2025. The average sale price came in at $642,412, down 7% year over year. Homes that closed averaged 14 days on market.
The headline out of June is a price drop, and it’s real. Average sale price fell 7% year over year to $642,412. Median closed at $585,000, down 5%. If you stopped there, you’d think the market was softening across the board.
May was an unusual month. A concentration of higher-end closings pushed the average up to $749,782, which made June’s pullback look sharper than it actually is. When you zoom out across the past several months, $642,000 is closer to where this market has been trading consistently. It’s a correction back to baseline, not a decline.
The number worth paying attention to is days on market. Homes that closed in June averaged 14 days. A year ago that was 30. That’s a 53% improvement in absorption speed in a month where prices came down. Demand didn’t leave. The market just repriced to where buyers are actually willing to act.
Here’s how June stacked up against the same month last year. New listings fell from 33 to 24, down 27%. New under contract came in at 17, essentially flat versus 18 last June. Active inventory ticked up slightly from 66 to 70, while under contract inventory dropped from 31 to 25. Total inventory held at 94 versus 97. Closings actually increased, from 15 to 17. Average sale price moved from $688,722 to $642,412. Median from $615,000 to $585,000. Average days on market dropped from 30 to 14. Average list price on active inventory rose from $696,683 to $791,919. Contract to closed held flat at 34 days. Months of supply came in at 4.79, down from 5.56 a year ago.
Source: Realtracs. Single-family residential, MPCPHH. Report Date: 07/06/2026.
The most telling data point in June isn’t the price change. It’s the spread between what sellers are asking and what buyers are paying. Active list prices are averaging $791,919, up 14% year over year. The median closing price is $585,000. That’s a $206,000 gap. A significant portion of active inventory is priced above what the current market will support, and those homes are sitting. The ones priced at or near where buyers are actually transacting are gone in two weeks. It’s the same market, but it’s behaving very differently depending on where a home is priced relative to recent comps.
If your Zillow estimate is somewhere north of $750,000 and your neighbors’ homes are closing at $585,000, that gap is worth a real conversation before you list.
A 14-day average days on market is genuinely fast. The difference now versus previous hot stretches is that it’s not driven by a frenzy. It’s driven by accurate pricing. Fewer new listings are hitting the market, 24 in June versus 33 a year ago, which keeps competition among available inventory manageable. When a well-priced home shows up in that environment, buyers act. The pipeline from contract to close is holding steady at 34 days, same as last June, which means there’s nothing unusual happening on the transaction side once homes go under contract.
The homes sitting longer are the outliers, and they’re having an outsized effect on the list-to-contract and list-to-closed averages, which came in at 257 days and 275 days respectively. This pattern has shown up in April, May, and June now. A small number of properties that sat for an extended period before eventually finding a buyer are skewing the averages in a low-volume market. The closed DOM of 14 days is the more useful number for understanding what’s actually happening.
Total inventory came in at 94 homes, essentially flat versus June 2025’s 97. Active inventory ticked up slightly to 70, while under contract inventory fell 20% to 25. New listings dropped 27% year over year. Months of supply landed at 4.79, down 14% from 5.56 last June. That puts MPCPHH squarely in balanced market territory. The National Association of Realtors generally defines balanced as 4 to 6 months of supply, and these neighborhoods are sitting right in the middle of that range. Not strongly buyer, not strongly seller, but trending in a direction that favors sellers who price accurately.
For buyers, the homes priced at market are moving in two weeks, so moving slowly on something that genuinely fits your criteria is a real risk. That said, there’s opportunity in the inventory that’s been sitting. Anything past 30 days on market is worth a closer look. The list-to-close price gap tells you there’s room to negotiate on overpriced listings. Getting pre-approved before you start looking matters more than it sounds right now. When a well-priced home in McFerrin Park or Cleveland Park hits the market, the buyers who are ready to move are the ones who get it.
For sellers, the homes selling in 14 days are not the ones listed at $791,000. They’re the ones priced closer to where buyers are actually closing, which is $585,000 at the median. New listings are down 27% year over year, which means less competition for well-presented homes. That’s a genuine advantage, but only if pricing is calibrated to recent comps rather than what you’d like the market to be.
A few questions that come up a lot this time of year. The median sale price for single-family homes in MPCPHH was $585,000 in June 2026, down 5% from $615,000 in June 2025. That’s the most stable benchmark for where the middle of the market is trading right now. On the buyer-versus-seller-market question, at 4.79 months of supply these neighborhoods are in balanced territory. Buyers have some leverage on overpriced listings, but well-priced homes are moving fast. It’s not a market that strongly favors either side. On timing, homes that closed in June averaged 14 days on market, down from 30 days in June 2025. That figure applies to accurately priced homes. Listings priced above recent comps are sitting significantly longer and skewing the broader averages.
Nick Irwin is a neighborhood specialist with BaseNashville and Compass, focused on McFerrin Park, Cleveland Park, and Highland Heights. If you want a straight read on what your home is worth in this market, or where to focus as a buyer, reach out.
Nick Irwin, REALTOR® | BaseNashville | Compass nick@basenashville.com | 615-418-0563
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