Do new homes in East Tennessee wait longer on the market than resale homes? The days read

In East Tennessee, 892 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 72 days.

The median new-construction listing has been on the market 72 days, against 65 for the median resale home, a difference of 7 days.

The comparison uses 7,320 resale listings from the same places. A resale home is any active home the MLS does not mark as new construction.

By price band, the median listing in $800k+ has been up 54 days and the median listing in $400–500k 89.

Move-in ready listings have been up a median 78 days, and listings still being built or just finished 71.

Days on market runs from the listing date to this edition for homes that are still active. It is not the full time a home takes to find a buyer, because these homes are still listed.

Of the 891 new-construction listings that state a year built, 177 carry a year built before 2026, 20% of them. This page counts those as move-in ready.

Of the 891 new-construction listings that state a year built, 714 carry a year built of 2026 or 2027, 80% of them. This page counts those as still being built or just finished.

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.

The most listings sit in the band $800k+, with 189 of the 892 priced new-construction listings, 21% of them.

Knoxville has the most new-construction listings, 300 of the 892, with the lowest asking price at $262,900. Lenoir City comes next with 58.

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 472 of the 891 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 122 of the 892, 14% of the page.

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 892 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.