Crescent Homes

Crescent Homes was founded in 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina by Ted Terry, a fifth-generation homebuilder. Starting in the Lowcountry, the company grew quickly: within roughly a decade it had become the top private homebuilder in its hometown of Charleston, and by the time of its 2024 sale it had closed approximately 5,000 homes and operated more than 25 active selling communities. The brand built its reputation serving entry-level and move-up buyers with thoughtfully designed homes at attainable prices.

Crescent expanded beyond South Carolina into the Nashville area in 2016, with its first Middle Tennessee construction getting underway in 2017. Founder Ted Terry framed the move around Nashville's strong job growth, higher-education presence, and tourism, plus an opportunity he saw in a market that national builders had not yet dominated. Early plans centered on Williamson County and the southeast corridor around Murfreesboro and Smyrna, anchoring the company's Middle Tennessee footprint.

Today, under the Dream Finders umbrella, Crescent-built and affiliated communities span a wide arc of the metro: places like Lockwood Glen in Franklin, Pine Creek in Arrington, Wilkerson Place in Spring Hill, Fairhaven and Fountain View in Thompson's Station, Shelton Square and Kingsbury in Murfreesboro, Goodwin Farms in Fairview, and Portico in La Vergne. Pricing in the region has historically run from the low-to-mid $300,000s into the higher ranges depending on community and plan, placing the builder squarely in the move-up category with offerings that reach entry-level buyers as well.

Product-wise, Crescent leans into a 'new breed of homebuilder' identity summed up by its tagline, 'Beyond the Standard.' The idea is that features many builders treat as upgrades are designed in as standard, paired with award-winning, modern open floor plans meant for efficient, comfortable living. Buyers personalize their homes through the Design Collective, a design-studio experience guided by a professional interior-design team, and a 'Flex' program even lets clients build a Crescent home on their own land outside the company's neighborhoods.

In February 2024, Dream Finders Homes acquired the homebuilding assets of Crescent Homes, including hundreds of homesites in progress, a sizable sales backlog, and thousands of lots under control across Charleston, Greenville, and Nashville. Dream Finders is a publicly traded homebuilder (NYSE: DFH) headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and one of the largest in the country, ranked No. 14 on BUILDER magazine's 2025 Builder 100 and named that publication's 2025 Builder of the Year. The acquisition keeps the local Crescent team and product in place while adding the scale and resources of a national builder.

For Middle Tennessee buyers, that combination is the distinctive part of the story: a builder with Charleston design roots and an included-features philosophy, now backed by a national parent. The result is a builder that competes on a well-equipped base home and a guided design experience, with a local presence that has been building across Williamson, Rutherford, and surrounding counties since the second half of the 2010s.