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Nashville, TN, is growing—and so is its soccer presence.
Nashville Soccer Club, known more casually as Nashville SC, made its Major League Soccer debut in 2020 and cemented the town as a hotbed for footy fans.
Plus, the Premier League Fan Fest is heading to Music City with NBC’s Premier League Mornings Live team from April 6–7.
The two-day festival will take place on Broadway and at Riverfront Park, with hosts Rebecca Lowe, Robbie Earle, Tim Howard, and Robbie Mustoe welcoming supporters and toasting England’s top players.
Thousands are expected to descend with scarves, jerseys, and flags aplenty, declaring their undying love for Manchester, Liverpool, Luton Town, and other teams. Many of these out-of-towners might also be pleased to see what a fun and soccer-friendly place Nashville has become.
And it got us thinking: What if a few fans in these throngs have such a grand time here that they decide to stay?
While Nashville has long been a magnet for music aficionados, a recent tour through its real estate listings suggests that many in this community live and breathe soccer, too. As proof, look no further than the many homes for sale in the area that play up soccer as a prime selling point.
A homebuyer’s guide to Nashville’s most soccer-friendly listings
A quick search of Nashville homes for sale reveals that 25 use the keyword “soccer” as a marketing perk in the listing.
Take, for instance, this three-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom home pictured below, at 2110 Sadler Ave.
“Positioned near the Geodis soccer stadium and downtown Nashville, this home offers both comfort and accessibility,” the listing notes. The price is $679,900.
This home is near the Geodis Park soccer stadium.
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Geodis Park, by the way, is a 30,000-seat, soccer-specific stadium built in 2022 and home of Nashville SC.
Some homes advertise that they’re in walking distance of this soccer magnet. One of them is this listing at 2176 Carson St Apt 2, available for $1.2 million.
This four-bedroom, four-bath brags that it’s “less than one mile from the Geodis soccer stadium.”
This listing is less than 1 mile from Geodis Park.
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But Geodis isn’t the only soccer field in town. This four-bedroom, two-bath home below, at 3008 Blakemore Ave., is listed for $987,000—a $50,000 price cut, no less.
As the listing points out, “this amazing home backs up to the Vanderbilt University soccer stadium.”
So if college games are also up your alley, this place could be for you.
This listing is near the Vanderbilt University soccer stadium.
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Meanwhile, this $1,149,000 beauty below, at 1431 14th Ave S, is mere “steps from Nashville’s first turf soccer pitches, provided by NSC,” the listing states.
It also boasts a sunken hot tub, an outdoor fireplace, and a 120-inch cinema projector screen with in-wall surround sound—perfect for inviting fellow sports fans to watch games.
This home is steps from Nashville’s first turf soccer pitches, provided by NSC.
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Last but not least, for fans who aren’t satisfied with just watching the big-league games, this house, at 2488 Prairie Hill Drive in Antioch, TN, is “in close proximity to The Nashville Soccer Club practice facility.”
It’s listed for $580,000. Who knows? Maybe you can catch the players practicing their fancy footwork in a more laid-back locale.
This house in the Clover Glen subdivision is near the Nashville Soccer Club practice facility.
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Why Nashville is a hot market—for soccer fans and beyond
Nashville has a strong housing market.
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The housing market in the Nashville metropolitan area has been on a winning streak for the past few years. The median home list price was about $560,250 in February, up about 8.2% year over year, according to the most recent Realtor.com® data. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, home prices jumped 51.5% over the past four years.
One of the reasons for the robust housing market is that more people are moving to the metro, and the local economy is strong. In fact, the area was growing by 100 people per day in 2022, according to a Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
“The largest numbers of new residents are from Florida and California,” says Alex Abels, manager of applied research at the chamber.
Nashville offers “a high quality of life for a low cost of living,” he says.
There is no state income tax in Tennessee, helping salaries to stretch further. Plus, there are plenty of jobs.
In December, the Nashville metro area’s unemployment rate was just 2.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was significantly lower than the national rate of 3.7% in the same month.
Clare Trapasso and Erik Gunther contributed to this report.
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