October looks like it was a reasonable month for home closings in Nashville TN. There were 447 homes that closed in October 2010. This doesn't include any condo sales. This is down from the 671 homes that closed in Nashville last year in October 2009. Condo sales for Nashville were 102 closings compared to 218 in October 2009.

Nashville Real Estate Statistics

The cheapest home that sold was listed for $9,900 and actually sold for $5,000 after just 27 days on the market. The home was sold as is and will likely be renovated and resold. The most expensive sold was $1,750,000. It was originally listed at $1,995,000 and sold after 182 days on the market.

The average price of a home sold in Nashville was $204,261 with an average days on the market of 90

Residential Statistics

The table below shows you the statistics for all the homes listed for sale in Nashville since Monday the 19th to today the 22nd of July 2010

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Retune Nashville is a new non-profit organization that recently formed in order to help the hard working musicians of Nashville—a lot of whom have lost instruments, performance spaces, and homes during the flood. Many of these musicians were uninsured, and have now lost their primary source of income.

To help, Retune Nashville is collecting water-damaged instruments, and reconstituting them as art pieces. They will exhibit the finished art pieces and auction them off, with all money going to "directly benefit Nashville’s working musicians through Music Cares Nashville Flood Relief and The Nashville Musicians Association Flood Relief Fund."

Retune Nashville is currently accepting donations of instruments and related parts like strings and gears.

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One of the best things about living in Nashville is the people. Even as homes are destroyed and loved ones lost, an amazing sense of camaraderie has taken over Nashville. Residents are pitching in to help one another, and many of Nashville's most high profile natives are using their fame to bring attention to the crisis in Middle Tennessee.

Reba McEntire donated $100,000, as did Vince Gill and his wife Amy Grant. Gill also headed “Working 4 You: Flood Relief with Vince Gill & Friends,” which featured stars like Keith Urban, Alison Krauss, and Naomi Judd, and raised $1.7 million. During the telethon, Taylor Swift called in, and donated a whopping half a million dollars to relief efforts. There was also the Clear Channel Cares

Here is a message from Matt Magallenes of Southern Land Company.

This link will enable people in Nashville and around the counrty, and the world, to be able to help in some form or other.

 Nashvillest

Flood Damage Will Increase Demand

In a cruel twist of fate, Mother Nature may be responsible for kick starting the construction business in Nashville and also contributing to the increase in property values of homes in Nashville and the surrounding communities.

Much the same as Florida suffered natural disasters that wiped out a lot of the homes in certain areas in the late 1990s and early 2000's, the simple laws of supply and demand came into play. As the amount of available housing was removed due to the devastation associated with the hurricanes the demand for homes suddenly increased. The difference in Florida was that most people had to cover their homes with flood and wind insurance. In this respect there is a big difference because the majority

As most of you already know Nashville and it's residents have been severly impacted by flooding on a scale that is still being evaluated.

The full implications of the devastation to home owners and builders alike is going to slowly come to light as the stories about the affects of the floodstart to come through.

The biggest impact is obviously being felt buy the home owners who lived in areas that were deemed safe from flooding and as a result didn't need to carry flood insurance. The problem for these people is how do the deal with total loss. Who do they turn to for help and support? What they really need is financial aid to help them through the tough times until they can at least renovate and repair their homes or find new accomodation.

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