Durham Farms recorded 34 new-construction closings in the fourth quarter of 2024. It recorded two in the second quarter of 2026 and zero in the third. The builders finished. Almost every article still online about this community, including the earlier version of this one, describes a market that no longer exists.

The last builder-listed closing at Durham Farms was February 18, 2026. Pulte Homes closed two houses that day, one on Snapdragon Lane at $764,900 and one on Rockwell Drive at $799,900. Lennar and Schell Brothers had closed their final Durham Farms homes nine days earlier. At Laurel Park the finish line came sooner: Phillips Builders closed 199 Willow Bend Drive on December 10, 2025 for $895,689 and has not closed a home in the community since.

That single fact reorganizes everything a buyer needs to know about these two communities. Of the 29 Durham Farms listings currently active or under contract, 25 are existing resale homes and exactly one is builder listed. Laurel Park has one active listing and one home under contract. Anyone searching "Durham Farms new construction" in 2026 is searching for something that is no longer for sale, and the price data written during the build-out years does not describe the market they will actually be buying in.

If you want the closings pulled by product type and floor plan for a specific home you are considering here, rather than the blended community median that gets quoted everywhere, Ryan Beals can put that side by side before you write an offer.

The Builders Left, and the Median Went Up Because of It

Durham Farms closed 101 homes over the past twelve months at a median of $630,000, up from $599,999 on 151 closings the year before. That reads as a 5.0 percent gain. It is mostly an accounting effect of the builders selling their last and largest inventory.

Split the closings by whether the home was new or resale and the picture separates cleanly. The 37 new-construction closings ran a median of $780,000 against $609,490 on 90 closings the prior year, because the homes still left to sell at the end of a build-out are the expensive ones. Per square foot those new homes moved from $222.06 to $229.66, a 3.4 percent gain. The 64 resale closings ran $602,500 against $597,000, up 0.9 percent, at $235.18 per square foot against $229.38, up 2.5 percent.

So the honest number for a buyer or seller in Durham Farms today is not 5.0 percent. It is roughly 2.5 percent per square foot on the resale side, which is the only side that still has homes to sell. The quarter-by-quarter record shows how fast the transition happened.

Resale volume held steady the entire time. Only the builder side moved, and it moved to zero. For a wider view of how this compares with the rest of the market, the new construction versus resale comparison for Hendersonville covers price, pace, and negotiating room across the city.

What the Builder's Own Buyers Got When They Sold

This is the number that matters most to anyone deciding whether to buy here, and it is not in any brochure. Thirty homes originally bought new from a builder at Durham Farms or Laurel Park came back on the market and resold in the past twelve months. The median gain was 4.9 percent over a median hold of 2.8 years.

A 4.9 percent gross gain does not cover a normal cost of sale. Nineteen of those 30 resales came in under 6 percent, which means the seller most likely handed over less than they paid the builder once commissions and closing costs were settled. Five of the 30 sold for less than the original purchase price outright.

The extremes tell the story better than the median. 860 Rockwell Drive closed new at $998,305 in February 2024 and resold at $870,000 in September 2025, down 12.9 percent in 564 days. 1005 Pebble Run Road closed new at $669,990 in January 2023 and resold at $592,000 in November 2025, down 11.6 percent. At the other end, 332 Azalea Circle closed new at $574,249 in April 2021 and resold at $885,000 in July 2026, up 54.1 percent. And 550 Snap Dragon Lane, bought at $750,000 in August 2025, resold in April 2026 at exactly $750,000.

The variable separating those outcomes is not the street or the floor plan. It is the year the buyer signed with the builder.

The 2021 cohort bought before the run-up and sold into it. Everyone after them bought at or near the top of builder pricing, and the resale market has spent three years catching up to what they paid. That is not a knock on Durham Farms specifically, it is what happens in any community where the builder sets the price and the resale market has to validate it afterward. It is also why a resale here today, priced against closings rather than against a builder price sheet, is a materially different purchase than the same house was in 2023.

Durham Farms and Laurel Park Market Data (2026)

Data from RealTracs MLS. Rolling 12-month period ending September 4, 2026. Closed sales only.

Read those last two rows together rather than separately. Durham Farms is up 5.0 percent on the median and 3.6 percent per foot, and the gap between them is the builder's final big houses. Laurel Park is down 2.1 percent on the median and up 9.6 percent per foot, and that gap is the opposite effect: the community sold through its largest plans and finished on its smaller ones. Neither community's headline number describes what happened to any individual house.

Active, Coming Soon & Under Contract in Durham Farms and Laurel Park

Recently Sold in Durham Farms and Laurel Park (Past 12 Months)

Getting Around Durham Farms and Laurel Park

Both communities sit in north Hendersonville, not the east side, and the difference matters for the drive. Durham Farms runs along Drakes Creek Road with its interior streets on Gingerwood Lane, Pebble Run Road, Nightingale Avenue, Snap Dragon Lane, Ashington Circle, Westchester Circle, and Tischer Drive. Laurel Park sits about two miles northwest on Willow Bend Drive, Parkenham Drive, Doversley Court, and Stonehaven Way.

Beech Sr High School is 1.5 miles from Durham Farms and 0.6 miles from Laurel Park. That proximity is the single most defining thing about both locations, and it is why the school zone is the first thing every buyer asks about here.

For the highway, the useful access points are New Shackle Island Road at Highway 386, about 3.6 to 3.8 miles from either community, and Saundersville Road at 386, about 3.7 miles from Durham Farms. Downtown Nashville is roughly 17 miles from both, which typically runs 40 to 50 minutes on a weekday morning by way of 386 west to I-65 south. The Highway 386 and Highway 109 interchange that snarls the Gallatin end of the corridor sits 5 to 7 miles east of these communities and is not on the natural route to Nashville from here. Buyers who work east toward Lebanon or Gallatin will use it, and they should drive it at 7:30 on a Tuesday before deciding how they feel about it.

TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center is 3.2 miles from Durham Farms and 3.6 from Laurel Park. The Streets of Indian Lake and the Indian Lake Boulevard retail corridor are 2.6 to 3.4 miles away, which is where most day-to-day errands from these two communities end up.

Laurel Park's 38 Percent Gain Never Happened

Laurel Park has been described in several places, including the earlier version of this article, as having gained roughly 38 percent in a year. The number came from comparing a $618,510 median against an $858,685 median across two windows that contained entirely different houses. Run against the current twelve-month windows the community median actually fell, from $826,639 to $809,621.

The reliable way to measure a community where one builder sold 98 of 103 homes is to hold the floor plan constant. Phillips Builders used a consistent set of plans, and the MLS records square footage precisely enough to match them.

Three of the four plans that closed in both windows went down. The community's per-square-foot figure still rose 9.6 percent, from $236.69 to $259.39, and the reason is that the median closed home shrank from 3,524 square feet to 2,961. Laurel Park's larger plans carry the lower per-foot pricing, so selling through them and finishing on the smaller ones pushed the community average up while no individual plan gained.

That relationship is worth knowing if you are buying one of the few Laurel Park homes that comes up. Across every Phillips closing in the community record, the 4,066 square foot plan closed at a median of $850,110 and $209.08 per square foot, and the 2,957 square foot plan closed at $757,763 and $256.26 per square foot. About $92,000 separates them and roughly 1,100 square feet, a marginal cost near $83 a foot inside a community whose median is $259. Sizing up at Laurel Park is where the per-foot value sits, which is the reverse of how most buyers assume premium communities work.

Durham Farms Has Two HOA Tiers, $267 a Month Apart

Durham Farms is usually described as having an HOA fee of roughly $87 to $393 a month. That range is accurate and it hides the most important cost decision in the community, because there is almost nothing in the middle of it.

Detached homeowners pay $85 to $112 a month, most commonly $103 or $108. That fee covers grounds and the amenity package, which the MLS record lists across the community as a pool, fitness center, clubhouse, playground, dog park, walking trails, park, and sidewalks. Townhome, zero-lot-line, and condo owners pay $261 to $409 a month, most commonly $370, and that adds exterior maintenance, insurance, and pest control on top of the same amenities. The typical gap is about $267 a month, roughly $3,200 a year.

The attached side is also the one segment of Durham Farms that lost value. Thirteen attached homes closed over the past twelve months at a median of $420,000 and $208.85 per square foot, down from $440,000 and $220.00 on 15 closings the year before. That is a 5.1 percent per-foot decline in the same twelve months the detached side rose 5.5 percent, from $225.72 to $238.07. The attached homes also took a median of 32 days to sell against 16 for detached, and closed at 96.6 percent of original list against 99.5 percent.

None of that makes the townhomes a bad buy on its own. They are the cheapest way into the Beech zone at Durham Farms, starting around $375,000 to $430,000, and for a buyer who does not want to maintain an exterior the $370 fee is buying something real. It does mean a buyer should price them against other attached product rather than against the community median, and should not assume the appreciation on the detached side applies. The Hendersonville HOA fee comparison by neighborhood puts both tiers next to what other communities charge.

Laurel Park runs the opposite way. Its fee is $125 a quarter in the earlier phases and $145 in the newer ones, about $42 to $48 a month, which is roughly half what a Durham Farms detached owner pays. What that fee covers is also roughly half: the MLS record for Laurel Park lists sidewalks and underground utilities, with a playground appearing on a handful of listings and no pool or clubhouse anywhere in the file. Laurel Park homes cost about $180,000 more than Durham Farms homes at the median and come with materially less community infrastructure. Larger lots, at a 0.28 acre median against 0.18, are part of what buyers are getting instead.

The Beech Zone Premium, Measured Two Ways

Both communities are sold on Beech High School, and the premium is usually quoted as a six-figure number. Over the past twelve months the Beech zone closed 462 Hendersonville sales at a median of $580,560 and the Hendersonville High zone closed 427 at $455,000. That is a $125,560 gap and it is the number most listings lean on.

Per square foot the same two zones closed at $234.10 and $226.02. That is a 3.6 percent difference. Nearly all of the $125,560 is house size, not zone premium, because the Beech zone is where most of the new large-lot construction of the past decade landed.

This matters for how you value the two communities against each other. Durham Farms closed at $233.05 per square foot, which is the Beech zone average almost exactly. Buyers there are getting the zone at par. Laurel Park closed at $259.39, about 10.8 percent above its own zone, so that community is the one genuinely charging a premium and a buyer should be able to say what they are getting for it. For the full picture across all three Hendersonville high school zones, the Hendersonville school zone breakdown covers what each one costs and how it holds value.

What Durham Farms Actually Looks Like Now

Durham Farms is a master-planned community built out between 2016 and 2025 across at least fifteen recorded phases and sections. Lennar, Pulte, and Schell Brothers were the three principal builders in the final years, and Lennar listed the largest share. Construction runs to hardboard with partial brick, all brick, and fiber cement with partial brick in roughly equal measure. Lots are small at a 0.18 acre median, which is the trade for the amenity package.

What is on the market today is a wide spread. Twenty-one active listings run from $414,000 to $894,750 at a $660,000 median, with eight more under contract, which works out to about 2.5 months of supply against the past year's closing pace. That is a balanced market, not a scarce one, and it is a meaningful change from the years when a buyer's alternative was to sign with a builder.

One structural note that trips up searches: the MLS carries Durham Farms under close to thirty different subdivision spellings, from plain "Durham Farms" through phase and section labels like "Durham Farms Ph4 Sec35b" and shorthand like "Durham Ph2" and "Final Plat of Durham." A search filtered on a single spelling will miss most of the community. The widgets above are built to catch all of them.

Buyers who want to see what else is being built in the city now that these two are finished can compare against other new construction communities in Hendersonville, or against the luxury new construction tier if Laurel Park's price point is the target.

The conversation I have most often here starts with a seller who bought new from the builder and assumes the community median tells them what they made. So I pull their actual purchase and every comparable resale. Of the last thirty people who bought new at Durham Farms or Laurel Park and sold, the median gain was 4.9 percent over about two years and ten months, and nineteen of the thirty netted less than they paid the builder once costs came out. That number is not an argument against these communities. It is an argument against pricing off a builder price sheet that no longer has a builder behind it.

Why Work with Ryan Beals

The mistake I see most often in these two communities is a buyer or a seller reaching for the community median. It is the number every portal shows and it is the number that describes the fewest actual houses here. Durham Farms sells a $420,000 townhome and a $650,000 detached home under one entrance sign, and those two markets moved in opposite directions this year. Laurel Park's median is built out of twelve sales, most of which were builder contracts written months before they closed.

What I do instead is straightforward and it is not optional in a builder community: pull the closings by product type, hold the floor plan constant where a builder used the same plans repeatedly, and check whether a comparable sale was an open-market transaction or a builder contract entered into the MLS on the day it was signed. In Laurel Park that distinction alone changes the days-on-market picture from zero to something a seller can actually plan around.

I also think the resale data deserves saying out loud rather than burying. Nineteen of the last thirty people who bought new here and sold likely netted less than they paid the builder. That is not an argument against these communities, both of which have real advantages. It is an argument for buying them on closed comps rather than on a price sheet. If you own here and are weighing a move, or you are about to make an offer, reach out directly at 629-263-0248.

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