Deane
Deane, KY · Real Estate
supertalk929.com
QVC promises business as usual at Northeast Tennessee center while filing for bankruptcy
Workers at an HSN fulfillment center in Piney Flats will receive paychecks and benefits as normal while their parent company files for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Once a global leader in live TV shopping, QVC reported $5 billion dollars of debt as part of its annual report and saw...
donfenley.com
Tri-Cities Housing Trend Key Focused on Urban Core Markets
The Q1 Tri-Cities housing market data suggest that the region’s overall resilience is increasingly dependent on strength in its urban cores. Despite fluctuations in mortgage rates during the quarter and lingering consumer caution tied to geopolitical uncertainty, buyers in the region’s major markets remained active. The urban volume gains were sufficient to lift the region’s aggregate totals even as smaller communities absorbed declines.
wcyb.com
Holston Habitat breaks ground on energy-efficient Bristol, Tenn. home
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WCYB) — A fresh start is taking shape in Bristol, Tennessee. Holston Habitat for Humanity breaking ground on a new, energy-efficient home for Bristol native, Ryk Frazier. Over the past few weeks, crews and volunteers have been hard at work, laying footers and pouring the foundation. In...
WJHL
JC planners to consider two subdivision proposals totaling 190 home lots
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — An expansion of one subdivision and creation of another are on the Johnson City Regional Planning Commission’s Tuesday agenda, with a proposed 97-lot project near the Knob Creek railroad tunnel drawing significant community opposition. That project, on 22 acres off at the corner of Claude Simmons and Knob Creek Roads, […]
donfenley.com
Tri-Cities Multifamily Market Cools: Vacancy Up
The Tri-Cities multifamily market posted a mixed fourth quarter in 2025, with rent growth decelerating sharply and vacancy rates rising in both metro areas tracked by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). Even so, the region’s fundamentals continued to compare favorably to national benchmarks. The Q4 2025 data...
WJHL
NETN Association Realtors: Median price of homes in region sitting at $282K
donfenley.com
Tri-Cities Market & Economic Intelligence
Each week CoreData highlights the most important housing, economic and commercial real estate signals shaping the Tri-Cities region. The goal is simple: identify what changed in the market during the week and explain why it matters for consumers, real estate professionals, investors and business leaders across Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
donfenley.com
The Shape of the Middle Class Defines Tri-Cities Housing Market
The middle class still defines the Tri-Cities housing market, but its shape is changing. It’s changing in ways that are quietly reshaping demand, pricing power and where growth shows up. More than half of households across the region qualify as middle class. But the region’s middle class is not...
wataugaonline.com
Hawksnest Snow Tubing and Zipline Park Sold After 35 Years
Hawksnest Golf & Ski Resort, a beloved destination for outdoor fun in Seven Devils, has officially been sold after 35 years of family ownership, marking the beginning of a new chapter for the business and the community it serves. For the past 35 years, the park has been proudly owned...
kingsportspirit.com
Established Neighborhoods Are Carrying Kingsport’s Out-of-Region Growth
The past month shows that Kingsport’s out-of-region draw remains impressively wide. March’s moves came from 25 states, which is a broad footprint for a single month. The biggest monthly sources were Tennessee, Florida, and Texas, with additional moves from states such as New York and Virginia (outside the Tri-Cities, TN/VA region). California was unusually quiet last month. The data suggests Kingsport continues to pull most strongly from the South and broader Sunbelt.
kingsportspirit.com
Tennessee’s Emerging and Mature Places Tell Two Very Different Housing Stories
Third-party rankings are constantly scanning and ranking communities based on “best of” or “worst of”. Frankly, it can be exhausting to keep up with. Some use a city name when they really mean a metropolitan or combined statistical area, leaving neighboring towns to wonder what they missed and the named city to take a bow for recognition that belongs to the whole region.
donfenley.com
Tri-Cities Market & Economic Intelligence
Each week CoreData Weekly highlights the most important housing, economic and commercial real estate signals shaping the Tri-Cities region. The goal is simple: identify what changed in the market during the week and explain why it matters for consumers, real estate professionals and investors. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────...
donfenley.com
The New Math of Homeownership in the Tri-Cities
The dream of homeownership has grown significantly more expensive across Northeast Tennessee’s three major metro areas since the 2019 pre-pandemic benchmark. Monthly housing costs have roughly doubled, and some income-to-housing ratios are at levels that financial advisors consider financially strained or outright unaffordable. The most extreme example, according to...
Elizabethton Star
Demographics, pace of newcomers define the Tri-Cities housing market
The Tri-Cities housing market is increasingly being shaped by a deeper structural reality than inventory levels, mortgage rates, affordability concerns or artificial intelligence. That reality is unfolding on three levels: […]
The Newport Plain Talk
Incredible Properties hearing delayed again
NEWPORT — Once again a criminal hearing for Incredible Properties, LLC, has been rescheduled. The court date had been reset for March 25 at 9 a.m. in Cocke County General Sessions Court, but it has now been reset for April 22 at 9 a.m. Incredible Properties, LLC, (IP) owned and operated by Randy Jones and is a company affiliated with Incredible Tiny Homes (ITH), was notified last August that elevation certificates were required for the homes at Tiny Towne, which is located at 850 Industrial Road. The certificates are required because the Tiny Towne property is in a special flood hazard area (SFHA), which is identified by the FEMA flood insurance rate map (FIRM). An SFHA is a high-risk zone with a 1% chance of flooding, which is also referred to as a 100-year floodplain. A letter was addressed to Jones, who co-founded ITH with Amanda Hayes in 2014, stating it acted as a “formal request that you obtain and submit an elevation certificate for all the homes on your property located at 850 Industrial Road, Newport.” Cocke County Floodplain Administrator Kathleen Alarcon sent that letter, along with a stop work order for Randy Jones that was dated Aug. 15,