CDJ Farms

CDJ Farms is a D.R. Horton neighborhood in Portland, the town at the north end of Sumner County, up near the Kentucky line. It's single-family construction with open-concept layouts and the kind of finishes D.R. Horton standardizes across its Middle Tennessee communities. The builder's own community page read "Now Selling" on 2026-09-23 and publishes the detail buyers want — "3 – 4 Bed | 2 – 2.5 Bath | 2 Garage", "1 – 2 Story | From 1,618 Sq. Ft." and "From $329,990 | Express Series®" — so what follows is that published detail plus what to confirm before you write.

Where it sits

Portland sits at the northern edge of Sumner County, farther from Nashville and from Old Hickory Lake than Hendersonville or Gallatin. It's the more rural, more affordable end of the county — a small-town pace at the north end of the county. The trade-off is the drive: Portland to Nashville is a real commute, not a rounding error, so a new-construction neighborhood here tends to fit buyers who work locally, work remotely, or have already decided the extra space and the price are worth the miles. Before you commit, we'll pull realistic drive times for your actual commute rather than the best-case version.

The homes here

CDJ Farms is a D.R. Horton single-family community. The published feature set points to one- and two-story designs with open-concept layouts, Silestone countertops, and stainless steel appliances — a familiar D.R. Horton package. As of 2026-09-23 the builder's own page posts the rest of it too: "3 – 4 Bed | 2 – 2.5 Bath | 2 Garage", "1 – 2 Story | From 1,618 Sq. Ft." and "From $329,990 | Express Series®" (drhorton.com/tennessee/nashville/portland/cdj-farms). Builder figures move with incentives and lot premiums, so treat them as the builder's published starting point and confirm the current sheet.

Who it fits

This one suits buyers who want a newly built home in a smaller, quieter Sumner County town and don't need to be ten minutes from the lake or the interstate. If the appeal of Portland — more rural, more land per dollar, an unhurried pace at the north end of the county — lines up with how you actually want to live, a brand-new D.R. Horton home in CDJ Farms is worth a look now that the builder lists it as selling. If a short Nashville commute is non-negotiable, weigh the drive honestly before you fall for a floor plan.

What to verify before you buy here

• Pricing and availability — the builder's own page published "From $329,990 | Express Series®" on 2026-09-23, and any third-party listing figure is not a builder number. Confirm the current price sheet and what is actually released for sale.
• Floor plans and specs — the builder publishes "3 – 4 Bed | 2 – 2.5 Bath" and "From 1,618 Sq. Ft." (read 2026-09-23); lot sizes are not published. Get the plan list and dimensions in writing before you anchor on a budget.
• Which finishes are standard vs. upgrade — open-concept layouts, Silestone, and stainless appliances are listed as features, but confirm exactly what's included at base price and what costs extra.
• Phase and timeline — ask which phase is selling, what the build timeline looks like, and whether early-phase pricing differs from later releases.
• Your actual commute — pull real drive times from CDJ Farms to where you'll work or run errands, on a weekday, before you decide Portland's distance works for you.
• Have your own representation from the first visit — registering an agent up front on a new build costs you little or nothing and gives you someone to help read the builder's contract, finishes list, and timeline alongside you.

What's changed since our first look

As of early July 2026, D.R. Horton's own CDJ Farms page listed the community as pre-selling, with three floor plans named — the Aria, the Belfort (part of D.R. Horton's Express Series), and the Cali — priced from roughly $334,540 to $352,990 and ranging 1,618 to 1,774 square feet, 3-4 bedrooms, 2 to 2.5 baths, and a 2-car garage (D.R. Horton, cdjfarms community page, accessed 2026-07-06). Re-read on 2026-09-23, the same page reads "Now Selling" and publishes the community "From $329,990 | Express Series®", "3 – 4 Bed | 2 – 2.5 Bath | 2 Garage" and "1 – 2 Story | From 1,618 Sq. Ft." at 200 Dark Fire Lane. Builder pricing on active communities moves week to week with incentives and lot premiums, so treat those as the builder's published starting point, not today's number — we'll confirm the current price sheet before you get attached to a figure.

Growth around Portland right now

CDJ Farms is selling into a town that's actively working through new subdivision proposals. Portland's Planning Commission met April 14, 2026 and worked through a full agenda of subdivision and rezoning items on the north side of town, including a 94-lot single-family PUD proposal on Old Westmoreland Road, a redesigned 27-lot Richland Estates plan, and several smaller single-family and duplex projects (Main Street Media of Tennessee, published 2026-04-28). None of those specific filings are CDJ Farms itself, but they show the pattern: Portland is in an active growth cycle, and a new community here is landing in a town where the local planning commission has more subdivision activity in front of it than it has in past years.

Get on the list before it's crowded

Early releases move fast once a builder starts releasing lots — the first phase often prices lower than later releases, and the best lots (corner, cul-de-sac, less road noise) tend to go first. We track CDJ Farms and the handful of other early-release Sumner County communities weekly, so if you want a heads-up the moment new phases, plans, or pricing post, tell us and we'll add you to that watch list rather than you having to keep checking builder pages yourself.