What do new homes in East Tennessee ask, band by band? The price ladder

In East Tennessee, 885 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 $499,900. The median listing has been on the market 71 days.

The most listings sit in the band $800k+, with 189 of the 885 priced new-construction listings, 21% of them.

Six bands hold at least one home. The others: Under $300k holds 97, $300–400k holds 181, $400–500k holds 166 and $500–650k holds 140.

The lowest band with a median asks $274,900, and the highest asks $1,199,000. The lowest single asking price on the page is $59,900.

Days on market differ by band. The median listing in $800k+ has been up 52 days, and the median listing in $400–500k 85.

A band is a range of asking prices and nothing else. It says what a listing asks, not who a home is for.

Of the 884 new-construction listings that state a year built, 176 carry a year built before 2026, 20% of them. This page counts those as move-in ready.

Of the 884 new-construction listings that state a year built, 708 carry a year built of 2026 or 2027, 80% of them. This page counts those as still being built or just finished.

Knoxville has the most new-construction listings, 299 of the 885, with the lowest asking price at $262,900. Lenoir City comes next with 58.

The median new-construction listing has been on the market 71 days, against 64 for the median resale home, a difference of 7 days.

The median new-construction listing asks $260 per square foot, against $232 for the median resale home, a difference of $28.

The most common size is 3 bedrooms, with 470 of the 884 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 123 of the 885, 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 885 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.