A home on Wendling Boulevard in Fairway Farms closed this year at $835,000. That works out to $277 a square foot, the highest price-per-square-foot figure recorded anywhere in the neighborhood over the trailing 12 months. It went under contract in three days.
Every seller in Fairway Farms has now seen that number somewhere, whether from a closed-sale alert, a neighbor's group chat, or a comp sheet an agent pulled. The temptation is to treat it as the neighborhood's new ceiling and price toward it. That would be a mistake, and the reason why says more about how this community actually works than the median price ever will.
The House Wasn't Just Nice. It Was on a Bigger Lot.
The Wendling Boulevard sale was a 2021 all-brick build on 0.46 acres. Fairway Farms as a whole has a median lot size of 0.27 acres, with lots ranging from 0.20 to 0.53 acres across the community. That half-acre lot wasn't a lucky outlier. It was one of a small cluster of larger parcels that show up on specific streets: Goodman Drive, Walpole Drive, Fannis Circle, and Wendling Boulevard, where lots run from 0.39 up to 0.53 acres.
Across the rest of Fairway Farms, price-per-square-foot has landed between $182 and $277 over the same 12-month window. The top of that range isn't spread evenly through the neighborhood. It clusters on those four streets, and it clusters harder where all-brick construction meets the larger lot sizes.
Thirteen of the 27 closed sales in that period were straight all-brick construction, with four more combining brick and hardboard or stone accents. That's roughly two-thirds of recent transactions built to that standard. The entry-level end of Fairway Farms includes partial brick, fiber cement, and hardboard exteriors, which is normal for a community this size, but it means "all-brick" alone doesn't separate a $450,000 home from an $800,000 one. Lot size does the rest of the work.
It Isn't the School Zone
Every one of those 27 closed sales, without exception, feeds into the same three schools: Howard Elementary, Liberty Creek Middle, and Liberty Creek High. There's no boundary line cutting through Fairway Farms and no section that zones differently than the rest. That uniformity is worth sitting with for a second, because it rules out the explanation a lot of buyers reach for first. If every home in the neighborhood shares the same school assignment, the school zone can't be why one house sold for $277 a square foot and another sold for $182. The variable has to be something else, and in this case it's lot size and construction type, not the address on a school district map.
| Typical Lot Size | What It Means for Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Community median | 0.27 acres | Baseline for most interior streets |
| Goodman Drive, Walpole Drive, Fannis Circle, Wendling Boulevard | 0.39 to 0.53 acres | Where price-per-square-foot tops out |
One Community Name, Two Builders
Fairway Farms was developed primarily by Ryan Homes starting around 2006, with construction continuing into the early 2020s. The community is now fully built out, and every home for sale today is a resale. The newest section, Meadow Glen at Fairway Farms, added Oakley Drive and Wassil Drive with builds dating from 2019 to 2023, so the age spread across the neighborhood runs nearly two decades from oldest to newest.
What doesn't show up on most listing sheets is that Ryan Homes wasn't the only builder to work under the Fairway Farms name. Frank Batson Homes, a Middle Tennessee builder active since 1975, also built a small run of nine homes on half-acre estate lots within the community, marketed separately with hardwood floors as a standard feature, a stone fireplace in the family room, and tile flooring throughout the bathrooms and laundry rather than the vinyl plank and carpet combinations typical of the Ryan Homes production spec. That enclave's builder address is tied to Wendling Boulevard itself, which is also where the community's larger lots concentrate.
For a buyer or seller on Wendling Boulevard, those finish differences make it worth confirming which builder constructed a given address before assuming homes with a shared street name and similar lot size were built to the same spec. County property records make that a five-minute check, and it's worth doing before either side commits to a number.
What This Means If You're Pricing a Sale Here
If your home sits on one of the community's standard 0.20 to 0.30 acre lots with a Ryan Homes production interior, the $835,000 Wendling Boulevard sale isn't your comp, no matter how nice your kitchen looks in photos. Your comps are the other homes on similarly sized lots with similar construction, and those have been landing closer to the $182 to $220 per square foot range depending on finish level and condition.
If your home does sit on one of the larger parcels on Goodman Drive, Walpole Drive, Fannis Circle, or Wendling Boulevard, the ceiling is real, but getting there depends on presenting the lot and the construction type clearly. All-brick exteriors, larger square footage, and documented lot size are the specific things that earned the top sale its price, not general neighborhood desirability.
HOA dues run $38 to $45 a month across most of Fairway Farms, with a median around $44, and some sections bill $120 to $135 quarterly instead. That's a minor line item relative to the price swings above, but it's worth confirming for the specific section you're in, since billing structure isn't uniform community-wide and buyers comparing monthly costs across listings sometimes miss the quarterly ones.
Fairway Farms sits off Long Hollow Pike beside the Long Hollow Golf Course, about three miles from Downtown Gallatin and roughly 35 to 40 minutes from Nashville via I-65. None of that changes house to house. What changes is the lot underneath the house and who built what's on top of it, and that's the part worth confirming before a number goes on a sign.
A Few Common Questions
Does a bigger lot always mean a higher sale price in Fairway Farms? Not automatically, but the data over the past 12 months shows the community's highest price-per-square-foot sales concentrated on the streets with the largest lots, particularly where a larger lot paired with all-brick construction.
Is any part of Fairway Farms zoned for different schools? No. All 27 closed sales in the trailing 12-month period fed into Howard Elementary, Liberty Creek Middle, and Liberty Creek High with no exceptions.
How can I find out which builder built my specific home? County property records typically list the original builder and permit date for a given address, which is the fastest way to confirm whether a home falls under the Ryan Homes production run or the smaller Frank Batson Homes group of half-acre lots.
Is the whole neighborhood the same age? No. Construction ran from roughly 2006 into the early 2020s, with the Meadow Glen section on Oakley Drive and Wassil Drive representing the newest builds from 2019 to 2023.
If you're weighing what your home on Goodman Drive, Walpole Drive, Fannis Circle, or Wendling Boulevard could actually ask, or trying to figure out which builder is behind a Fairway Farms listing you're considering, Dorothy Lee can walk through the section-by-section numbers with you before a price goes anywhere near a sign.
This article is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Consult a qualified professional about your situation.
