Where are new homes going up in East Tennessee? City by city

In East Tennessee, 884 active listings carry the MLS's own new-construction marker. Every one shows an asking price, from $59,900 to $8,500,000, and the median asking price is $500,000. The median listing has been on the market 67 days.

Knoxville has the most new-construction listings, 301 of the 884, with the lowest asking price at $262,900. Sevierville comes next with 57.

In all, 83 cities, as the listings spell them, have at least one. The next four: Lenoir City has 56, Crossville has 52, Loudon has 41 and Maryville has 34.

The median asking price in Knoxville is $526,800. In Sevierville it is $534,900, a difference of $8,100.

Among cities with three or more listings, the median listing in Oneida has been on the market 6 days. In Harrogate it is 312.

The city is whatever the listing says it is. The MLS does not name a county on these listings, so the page does not either.

The most listings sit in the band $800k+, with 192 of the 884 priced new-construction listings, 22% of them.

Of the 883 new-construction listings that state a year built, 178 carry a year built before 2026, 20% of them. This page counts those as move-in ready.

Of the 883 new-construction listings that state a year built, 705 carry a year built of 2026 or 2027, 80% of them. This page counts those as still being built or just finished.

The median new-construction listing has been on the market 67 days, against 64 for the median resale home, a difference of 3 days.

The median new-construction listing asks $261 per square foot, against $233 for the median resale home, a difference of $28.

The most common size is 3 bedrooms, with 465 of the 883 new-construction listings that state a bedroom count, 53% of them.

The listing office with the most new-construction listings is Realty Executives Associates, with 125 of the 884, 14% of the page.

The MLS marks a listing as new construction, and that is all it says about the build. It gives no construction status and no expected completion date, and this page never reads a listing's remarks for one. So the split here is by year built and days on market, nothing more. A home with a year built before 2026 is counted as move-in ready. A home with a year built of 2026 or 2027 is counted as still being built or just finished. That is a reading of two fields, and a home's own page is the place to confirm what stage it is in.

Every price on this page is an asking price on an active listing, taken from the MLS listings as of our latest check. A median needs three listings with a figure, and it is left out when there are fewer. A listing office is the office that listed the home, and the MLS does not say who built it. The page counts 884 new-construction listings, and every figure here is a count or a median of those.

Each row of the tables below opens the homes behind it, so a count can be checked against the listings it counts. The newest listings are shown as cards under the chart, and the search above them looks through every new-construction listing, not only the ones shown.