Laurel Park

Laurel Park is a Phillips Builders community on about 45 acres at 3272 Long Hollow Pike in Hendersonville, with roughly 99 homes built in phases since 2021. The neighborhood is sold out and trades only on the resale market, so the way in today is to watch for a home to list rather than to buy from the builder.

The builder

Phillips Builders is an independent, family-owned Nashville homebuilder — one of the city's oldest, founded in 1952 by Randall Phillips Sr., briefly part of Meritage Homes from 2013 to 2017, and relaunched as an independent, fifth-generation family company by Jason Phillips in 2020. Phillips works as a production builder from a library of named, architect-designed floor plans — buyers pick a plan and a homesite rather than designing from scratch — and the company's pitch is that features competitors charge for as upgrades (lighting, countertops, cabinetry) come standard.

The homes & floor plans

Laurel Park is platted with two lot products — 48 narrower 50–60-foot alley/rear-load lots and 51 wider 90-foot-plus estate lots with side-load garages — and Phillips builds the same core plans on either product, pairing the carriage-garage (rear-load) versions to the narrow lots and side-load versions to the estate lots. The four published plans are two-story single-family homes, and built examples have run from about 2,660 to 4,006 square feet across the lineup. All four put the owner's suite on the main level with a 10-foot tray ceiling, a walk-in closet, a covered rear patio, and a bonus room up; standard interior features include upgraded lighting, countertops, and cabinetry.

• The Whitney — 4 bed / 3.5 bath, ~2,957 sq ft (1,735 down + 1,222 up), 2 stories; main-level primary suite, coffered great room, dining-to-study option, three bedrooms + bonus up. View plan
• The Crosby — up to 5 bed / up to 4 bath, ~2,921 sq ft base (1,742 down + 1,179 up), 2 stories; main-level primary suite, family room, bonus room + up to four bedrooms upstairs with an optional 4th upstairs bath. View plan
• The Fleetwood — 4 bed / 3.5 bath, 2 stories; primary suite PLUS one additional bedroom and a flex room on the main level, two bedrooms + bonus up, optional gourmet kitchen and an optional powder room. View plan
• The McCartney — 4 bed standard (up to 5) / 3.5 bath standard (4.5 with the 5-bedroom option), 2 stories; master suite, a guest bedroom, AND a dedicated study all on the main level, plus a hearth room with coffered ceiling and a family-room fireplace; built examples reach ~4,006 sq ft with the optional 5th bedroom up. View plan

Plan by plan, the four homes solve different problems even though all four keep the owner's suite downstairs. The Whitney is the cleanest pure main-level-living plan: only the primary suite is down, with the other three bedrooms and a bonus room upstairs, and the dining-to-study swap makes it the simplest fit for a buyer who wants a downstairs office and otherwise wants the second floor for kids, guests, or a gym. The Crosby is the bedroom-maximizer — over a main-floor primary suite it stacks a bonus room plus three to four bedrooms upstairs, and with the optional 4th upstairs bath it becomes a true 5-bedroom / 4-bath home, the right pick when you need the most upstairs sleeping space without giving up downstairs primary living. The Fleetwood adds a second bedroom and a flex room on the main level alongside the primary suite, which makes it the multigenerational and guest-heavy choice (an in-law or one-level sleeper stays downstairs), with a bonus room and two more bedrooms up. The McCartney is the work-from-home and hosting plan — its main level carries the master, a separate guest bedroom, and a dedicated study, plus a hearth room and a family-room fireplace, so the office and the guest room are both downstairs, with a large bonus and two more bedrooms (optionally a fifth) above.

Lot sizes

Recorded lots in Laurel Park generally run about 0.27–0.36 acre, with the model home on roughly 0.30 acre; individual lots are smaller than the gross acreage-per-home math because a meaningful share of the site is preserved as open space. The community is split between two products: 48 alley/rear-load lots at 50–60 feet wide, where the garage is reached from a rear alley so the streetscape stays free of front-facing garages, and 51 estate lots at 90 feet or more, whose wider frontage allows a side-entry garage, a broader home footprint, and 3-car garages on the estate listings. The estate lots are roughly 50% wider than the alley lots, which is the basis for their premium; because the community is sold out, any lot-to-lot premium today shows up as a resale price difference rather than a published builder figure.

Amenities

• Central community pavilion with outdoor seating and a wood-burning fireplace
• Playground
• Preserved open space and tree canopy throughout the community
• Sidewalks throughout, with underground utilities
• A small preserved historic cemetery on the grounds
• No community pool — the amenity area is designed as passive open space

HOA

Laurel Park has a mandatory homeowners association, billed quarterly. Recent resale listings show dues of about $125 per quarter (roughly $42/month) on the smaller alley/rear-load tier and $145 per quarter (roughly $48/month) on the estate-lot tier. The MLS 'fee includes' field reads Maintenance Grounds; in practice the HOA maintains the common areas — the pavilion and wood-burning fireplace, the playground, the open greenspace, and the entry landscaping. The community also features sidewalks and underground utilities.

Use, architectural, fence, parking, and rental rules are governed by the recorded Declaration of Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions, a public record at the Sumner County Register of Deeds (355 N. Belvedere Dr., Suite 201, Gallatin). One Tennessee point worth knowing when reading any subdivision's covenants: under a 2023 Tennessee Supreme Court ruling, a covenant requiring 'residential use' does not by itself bar short-term rentals, but a recorded amendment setting a minimum lease term (such as 30 days) does — so the controlling answer for any home is in its recorded Declaration, which should be reviewed before writing an offer.

Location, commute & taxes

Laurel Park sits off Long Hollow Pike near New Shackle Island Road, with quick access to SR-386 (Vietnam Veterans Parkway). Downtown Nashville is about 18 miles — roughly 25 minutes off-peak via SR-386 to I-65 South, 35–50 minutes in morning rush. Nashville International Airport (BNA) is about 22 miles / ~26 minutes off-peak via I-65 South and Briley Parkway. Cool Springs / Franklin runs about 39 miles / ~44 minutes off-peak, straight down I-65 through Nashville.

Day-to-day, The Streets of Indian Lake (shopping, dining, and a Regal cinema) is about 4–5 miles / a 10-minute drive; Drakes Creek Park — about 75 acres with a 2-mile lighted paved walking path, athletic fields, playgrounds, and creek fishing — is about 5–6 miles / a 12-minute drive; and Old Hickory Lake access at Drakes Creek Marina, with a public boat launch at the adjacent Sanders Ferry Park, is about 9–10 miles / roughly a 20-minute drive.

Tennessee has no state income tax. Sumner County's certified property-tax rate after the 2024 reappraisal is $1.421 per $100 of assessed value, and the City of Hendersonville's rate is $0.5883 per $100, for a combined rate of about $2.0093. Tennessee assesses homes at 25% of appraised value, so a $750,000 home is assessed at $187,500 and runs roughly $3,770 per year in combined county and city property tax. Laurel Park is zoned for Beech Elementary School, T.W. Hunter Middle School, and Beech Senior High School, which is adjacent to the neighborhood.

How Laurel Park compares

Among Hendersonville new-construction neighborhoods, Laurel Park is the small, completed, single-builder option with mid-tier lots and a pavilion-and-playground amenity set rather than a pool. Durham Farms is a much larger master-planned community with a deeper amenity package (splash pad, dog park, firepits, Wi-Fi cafe) built by multiple builders, with Estate Villas marketed from the upper $300,000s. Millstone is a still-selling community with a pavilion, community lake, fitness center, and event lawn, with single-family pricing roughly $589,990–$742,960 that overlaps Laurel Park's resale range. Saundersville Station, built by Southeastern Building Corporation and still selling, carries two community pools and tennis courts. The Hunt Club, by Drees Homes, is still selling with a neighborhood swim club and a gated section. Oak Creek Estates, by Schell Brothers, sits higher — homes from the high $900,000s on half-acre, tree-lined homesites — and is still selling.

So the trade-offs are clear: if you want a community pool, look at Saundersville Station (two pools) or The Hunt Club (swim club); if you want a larger lot, Oak Creek Estates offers half-acre homesites; if you want a lower published entry price than Laurel Park's resale range, Durham Farms and Anderson Park start below it; and if you specifically want brand-new construction, every one of these is still selling while Laurel Park is resale-only. All are in Sumner County, with no state income tax.

The resale market here

Because Laurel Park is built out, every purchase is a resale, and inventory is thin. With about 99 homes built since 2021, most owners are recent, and public records show only a handful of distinct sales over the past two years. Original-build and closeout transactions (2022–2023) ran roughly $570,000–$680,000 on homes around 2,660–2,957 square feet; true 2024 resales pushed higher, with 130 Willow Bend Dr (2,957 sq ft) selling for $735,000 in April 2024 and 120 Willow Bend Dr (3,121 sq ft) for $780,000 in September 2024. The biggest builds reach further up — 226 Willow Bend Dr, a McCartney built in its expanded 5-bedroom layout at ~4,006 sq ft, listed near $984,000 (about $246 per sq ft).

Price per square foot across reported sales has run roughly $210–$250, trending toward the top of that band on the newer resales. A practical 2026 entry expectation for a standard 2,600–3,500-square-foot Laurel Park home lands in the high-$600,000s to mid-$800,000s, depending on size, lot product, and finishes. Days on market run about 45–65 days, in line with the broader 37075 market. Turnover is low, so homes come up intermittently — often just one at a time — which is exactly why a buyer who wants in needs to be watching and ready to move.