The $25 Million Line Item That Split Taramore in Two

Pull up a set of recent Taramore listings and the spread makes no sense at first glance. One home on Wexcroft Drive, six bedrooms and 4,293 square feet, priced at $1,460,000. A few streets over, a five-bedroom, 7,348-square-foot house on Acadia Cove Court asked $2,675,000. Meanwhile, townhomes in the same neighborhood have recently traded in the mid-$700s, according to market data compiled last year. Same HOA. Same clubhouse. Same entrance off Split Log Road in Brentwood. A gap that size usually means someone made a pricing mistake, or the buyer is comparing two different neighborhoods that happen to share a name.

Neither is true here. The gap is real, and it traces back to a transaction that had nothing to do with square footage or finishes. It was a corporate asset sale, and the paperwork from that sale still shapes what a Taramore address tells you today.

Same Entrance, Two Builders

Construction at Taramore started in 2007 under John Wieland Homes, an Atlanta-based builder that also worked in Charleston, Charlotte, and Raleigh markets. The Wieland product here leaned into stately brick architecture with Greek Revival detailing, Charleston-style side porches, and touches of Italianate and English design, homes with one- and two-story porches and gabled facades sitting on lots running a half acre to three-quarters of an acre. Floor plans ranged from about 2,966 to 6,952 square feet, four to six bedrooms, two to six baths, two- to four-car garages. By the end of 2015, that program had produced roughly 230 executive and gated-estate homes, the two categories that still carry the highest resale prices in the neighborhood today.

Then ownership changed hands, and the building program changed with it.

The Deal That Drew the Line

In early 2016, PulteGroup completed a purchase of John Wieland Homes assets across Middle Tennessee. Taramore was one specific line item in that deal: 67 lots and two tracts, sold for $25,096,592. The same transaction, closed the same day, moved a separate 13-lot Franklin parcel called Hart's Landmark for $5,102,326. Nationally, Pulte was absorbing roughly 7,400 controlled lots and 280 homes in backlog as part of the broader acquisition, a scale move that made sense given the builder rankings at the time: Pulte finished 2015 ranked sixth in the country for homes built, with 455 completed through October, while Wieland ranked twelfth with 225. Williamson County's home sales had climbed 18 percent that January compared to a year earlier, and a builder looking to grow in the Southeast had every reason to want a foothold already zoned and half-built.

Brentwood's Planning Commission signed off on the next phase of construction not long after, approving building elevations for lots in what would become Phase 11 of the subdivision. But the homes that came out of that approval looked nothing like the ones Wieland had been building for eight years. Pulte introduced a new, smaller-footprint product under the name The Grove at Taramore: 39 cottages and 18 townhomes, aimed at a different kind of Brentwood buyer, the empty-nester or first-time Brentwood purchaser rather than the family upsizing into a six-bedroom estate.

Nobody voted on this as a neighborhood decision. It was a line in a corporate balance sheet, and it drew a permanent boundary through Taramore's housing stock.

What the Split Actually Looks Like on the Ground

The table only works if you already know which builder era a listing belongs to. Most portal search results do not tell you that.

Why This Matters When You're Running Comps

Aggregate stats for Taramore blend all three products into one number, and that number can mislead. A widely cited average list price for the neighborhood has hovered around $1.78 million based on active listings from last September. That figure means almost nothing to someone shopping a Grove townhome, because it is dragged upward by gated-estate resales that belong to an entirely different construction program nine years older. A buyer using the neighborhood average to judge whether a $750,000 townhome is fairly priced is comparing it to homes it was never meant to compete with.

The same caution applies to HOA dues. Reporting from when the neighborhood was still mostly Wieland-built put fees around $80 a month. A more recent listing noted dues closer to $108 a month. That is not evidence the split itself changed the number, but it is a reminder that whatever figure appears in an old listing description should be confirmed against current HOA documents before you rely on it, regardless of which section the home sits in.

If you are comparing two Taramore listings side by side, the more useful question is not "how many square feet" but "who built this, and when." A five-bedroom estate home on a gated street built in 2010 and a five-bedroom cottage built in 2018 can carry the same bedroom count and still represent completely different products, different lot sizes, and a construction gap of nearly a decade.

The One Thing That Never Split

Both builders inherited the same anchor: the James Sayers House, a Greek Revival home built around 1845 that predates either building program by more than 150 years. Restored as Taramore's clubhouse, it is one of the few antebellum structures in the area to retain its original kitchen breezeway connector, and it now sits at the center of five-acre Sayers Park, surrounded by a pool with lap lanes and a water slide, a fitness center, lighted tennis courts, a playground, and trails that connect to Crockett Park, River Park, the Brentwood Library, and Marcella Vivrette Smith Park.

Every phase of Taramore, whether it went up under Wieland's crews or Pulte's, was built around that same historic house. It is the one asset the split never touched, and it is the reason the neighborhood still functions as one HOA and one community on paper even though its housing stock tells two separate stories.

What This Means If You're Comparing Listings Here

A few things worth checking before you treat any Taramore listing as a straightforward comp against another:

• Ask which builder constructed the specific home and roughly when. A listing agent should be able to tell you whether a property sits in the original Wieland-built sections or in The Grove.
• Note the street. Addresses on New Bristol Lane, Dresden Square, Wexcroft Drive, Ivy Crest Drive, and Longmoore Lane generally trace back to the Wieland era, while anything marketed under The Grove name is Pulte's later product.
• Confirm the current HOA statement directly rather than relying on any number published in an older listing description, since dues have already moved once over the life of this neighborhood.
• If you are zoned for or interested in the neighborhood's Williamson County Schools assignment, Kenrose Elementary, Woodland Middle School, and Ravenwood High School serve Taramore, and that assignment applies across all three sections equally.

A Few Questions Worth Asking Early

Does the section affect resale value the same way everywhere in Taramore? Not necessarily. A gated estate home and a Grove townhome are different products serving different buyers, so they tend to move on different timelines and respond to different demand pressures rather than rising or falling together.

Is the HOA fee the same across all three sections? The published figures we found varied by year rather than by section, which suggests dues are set neighborhood-wide rather than by builder era. Confirm the current amount directly with the HOA before you rely on any older estimate.

Why does one clubhouse serve homes built almost a decade apart? Because the James Sayers House and its surrounding park predate both building programs. It was already the neighborhood's anchor before either builder broke ground on a single home.

If you are trying to figure out what a specific Taramore address is actually worth, or which section fits what you are looking for, that is exactly the kind of question worth working through with someone who tracks this market closely. Robert Werkheiser can walk you through the comps that matter for your situation. Let's talk about your next move.