Goodall Homes

Goodall Homes is one of Middle Tennessee's defining production homebuilders, founded in 1983 by Bob Goodall, Jr. and headquartered at 393 Maple Street in Gallatin, the Sumner County seat. The company traces its roots to a multigenerational Tennessee homebuilding family — Bob Jr. built on the trade he learned from his father — and the Goodall name itself goes back to the region's earliest settlers. More than four decades on, that Gallatin foundation still anchors the company, and Sumner County remains very much its home turf.

Today Goodall Homes is the second-largest homebuilder in Middle Tennessee, a position recognized externally as well: Market Graphics Research Group has ranked Goodall #2 on its Top 50 Builders Report for the Nashville market. The company has also been a perennial local standout — named to the Nashville Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and to The Tennessean's Top Workplaces for several consecutive years — and has earned national recognition including Professional Builder magazine's National Builder of the Year and NAHB National Housing Quality awards.

In 2016, Goodall Homes joined Clayton Properties Group, the site-built housing arm of Clayton — a Berkshire Hathaway company. The combination gave Goodall the financial backing and scale of one of the country's largest housing organizations while the brand continues to operate under its own name with its Gallatin leadership and local identity intact. For buyers, that means a well-capitalized, durable builder paired with a recognizable Middle Tennessee name.

Goodall builds across a wide Middle Tennessee footprint — Sumner, Wilson, Rutherford, Davidson, Maury and Robertson counties — in cities including Gallatin, Hendersonville, Lebanon, Mt. Juliet, Murfreesboro, Smyrna, Spring Hill, Columbia, White House and Nashville. The company has also expanded beyond the immediate Nashville region into the Knoxville area (Knox County, Farragut, Lenoir City), southern Kentucky (Bowling Green and the Franklin/Simpson area), and the Huntsville, Alabama market through its Legacy Homes of Alabama brand.

The product line is unusually broad, which is part of what makes Goodall distinctive: single-family homes, townhomes, courtyard cottages and villas all sit under one roof. That range lets a single builder serve everyone from first-time and lock-and-leave buyers wanting low-maintenance villa and townhome living to move-up families wanting a larger single-family floor plan — often within the same community. The positioning is squarely 'Homebuilding Simplified,' with an emphasis on a guided, low-stress process rather than fully custom one-off building.

What sets Goodall apart for many buyers is the experience layer wrapped around the home. The company leans on a structured, transparent build process, a dedicated Design Studio for personalizing selections, and modern conveniences like remote/virtual model-home appointments through its Innovative Sales Consultant team and mortgage-rate protection through a preferred-lender partnership. Combined with a strong third-party-backed warranty, the pitch is consistent: a streamlined, well-supported path to a new home in the communities Goodall knows best.