Where are the starter homes in East Tennessee? Listings city by city

In East Tennessee, 1,818 active homes are in the starter band. The median asking price is $239,000, and the median home states 1,064 square feet. Starter homes are 14.7% of the 12,401 active listings in the edition. A starter home here is a home that states under 1,200 square feet or asks under $250,000.

Knoxville has the most starter homes, 322 of the 1,818, with a median asking price of $261,000. Sevierville comes next with 165.

1,818 active listings, asking a median $236,750 and 64 days listed.

In all, 167 cities, as the listings spell them, have at least one starter home. The next four: Gatlinburg has 99, Crossville has 98, Pigeon Forge has 64 and Jamestown has 58.

The median home states 1,540 square feet in Monterey and 828 in Cosby.

Among cities with three or more starter homes, the median asking price is highest in Pigeon Forge, at $389,950, and lowest in Middlesboro, at $145,000.

The city is whatever the listing says it is. A different spelling of the same city is counted under its own spelling, so the counts are of the names as listed.

More starter homes state 1,000 to 1,199 square feet: 618 of the 1,815 that state a size, 34% of them. The median asking price there is $285,000.

The most starter homes ask $250,000 and up: 711 of the 1,789 priced homes, 40% of them. The median home in that band states 1,022 square feet.

The median starter home asks $239,000, states 1,064 square feet and was built in 1985, and had been listed 64 days.

Twenty new starter homes came on the market since the last edition, with a median stated size of 1,148 square feet.

The most starter homes were built from 1950 to 1979: 448 of the 1,816 that state a year, 25% of them. The median asking price there is $225,000.

Of the 12,401 active listings in the edition, 1,818 are starter homes, 14.7% of the market.

Every price on this page is an asking price on an active listing, taken from the MLS listings as of our latest check. A starter home here is a home that states under 1,200 square feet or asks under $250,000. A small home that asks more and a larger home that asks less are both counted. Asking price per square foot is a listing's asking price divided by its stated size, so it is an asking figure and nothing more. Three homes state no size and are left out of every size figure. A median needs three homes or it is left out.

Each row of the size and city tables below opens the homes behind it, so a count can be checked against the homes it counts. The city table lists the twelve cities with the most starter homes.

This page leaves a lot out on purpose. It does not read remarks or condition, and it says nothing about who a home is for or where anyone should look. What it can do is count the homes, size them by stated square feet and show where each one is.

The cards under the chart show the newest starter homes first. The search above them looks through every active listing, so a home that is not among the cards can still be found by city, price or size.