About the Tennessee guide

What this site is

Tennessee Homes Guide is an independent consumer guide to buying, selling and moving home in Tennessee. It is not a brokerage, a lender or a referral service. It holds no listings, runs no property search, and has no form that turns a reader into an enquiry. Nobody pays to appear on it, and no sentence on any page is written to move you toward a particular agent, lender or brokerage.

The reason that matters is simple. Almost everything written about housing online is paid for by somebody who profits from the transaction, which shapes what gets said and what quietly does not. Removing the enquiry form removes the reason to write that way. It also removes the revenue, which is why this site is small, slow-moving and honest about what it has not finished.

What it covers, and what it deliberately does not

The scope is fifteen places: Tennessee's fifteen most populous incorporated places in the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 sub-county estimates for 1 July 2025, plus the parts of a home transaction that work the same way wherever in the state you are. The selection method and the population order are set out in full on the fifteen-city comparison, along with the reasons the ordering is not a recommendation.

Everywhere else in Tennessee is outside the first scope rather than beneath it. Within the fifteen, the pages stay on ground that can be checked: housing stock and construction era, water and sewer against well and septic, municipal boundaries and annexation, which county assesses and records a property, flood exposure, commute distance and the road that carries it. The pages do not rate areas, do not publish safety or crime claims of any kind, and do not describe the people of a place. Why those lines are drawn where they are is explained in the research and corrections policy.

Who writes it

This page does not yet name the people who write these guides or the entity that publishes them, and it would be worse than useless to invent either. Until those details are published here, judge the pages on the only evidence that actually settles the question: whether each claim names the office, dataset or record it came from, and the date it was taken. Where a page cannot show that, it is supposed to say so rather than fill the gap with confident prose — and pages that have not been researched yet are labelled as outlines at the top, rather than shipped as finished work.

If a page here fails that standard, it is a defect and we would like to know about it.

Money, and the absence of it

There is no advertising on this site. There is no sponsored placement, no paid inclusion, and no commission arrangement with any agent, brokerage, lender, inspector, insurer or moving company. No third party has been given the right to review or approve the wording of a page.

The one outbound relationship worth naming is not a relationship at all: some pages link to a property portal so that a reader who needs to see what is currently on the market can go and see it. Those links carry a "nofollow" attribute, pay nothing to anyone here, and are labelled as a hand-off to somebody else's data rather than presented as a recommendation. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on the page that changed and in the editorial policy, not buried in a footer.

Getting in touch

Corrections, boundary disputes, dead links and questions that a guide should answer but does not all go to the same address, and it reaches the people who write the pages rather than a sales desk: how to contact the editors. There is no phone line and no enquiry form to fill in — the guide's home page will point you at the right section faster than we can.