berwickOne of my listings was recently featured by the TN Ledger! You can read the full article on their website, here: http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=89749

I’ve also pulled an excerpt from the article for you!


Hip Donelson and Marvelous Madison are the latest areas to enroll in the boom.

Both are still affordable and reasonably close. With today’s traffic patterns, both have easier, faster commutes than some of the trendy areas. The houses are resting on their original lots with their floor plans.

An example of this would be Mary O’Neil’s listing at 810 Berwick Trail in Madison that sold for $435,000 last month. The original owner died recently, and her son contacted Mary to list the property. He warned her that nothing had been done to update the home in all of these years.

Expecting the worst, O’Neil donned her rough house wear and approached the home only to find it wonderfully maintained and in pristine condition.

She describes the residence as a “Mad Men mid-century beauty” built by Braxton Dixon and noted that the “Cumberland River is its backyard.”

When staking such a claim, it is imperative to follow with the words “did not flood.’’ Those tiny three words pack a wallop these days.

Although, one of the more interesting things about this 100- person-a-day migration into Nashville is that so few of the buyers and their Realtors actually experienced the flood.

An agent in our office listed a home on the river next to Opryland a few weeks ago, and it was in rough shape. An agent called to see exactly how bad the condition was and the listing agent said, “Well, you remember Opryland, right?” And then she said, “The flood?” A pause followed.

“Remember Opryland, like tens of millions of dollars?” The buyer’s agent was unaware that a flood had occurred here.

For that agent, we have some nice riverfront property we would like to show you.

Back to Madison, the Braxton Dixon house included the original marble countertops, walk-in closets, and wall mounted toilets with push button flush. With 2,996 square feet, the $145 per square foot number is appealing and the house was built on a 1.23 acre lot.

Once listed, O’Neil received multiple offers and the owner decided to accept the offer of Russell Parrish of Parrish and Associates whose client was the son of a woman who had attended school with Braxton Dixon.