Sell a Fire Damaged House in South Nashville or Wedgewood-Houston

The District Under the Lot Is the Whole Story

In most of this county zoning is a background fact. Here it is the foreground, because residential, mixed use, commercial and industrial districts sit against each other across short distances.

That matters directly. New not owner-occupied short term rental permits are not permitted in AR2A, R, RS or RM zoned properties, and are permitted with conditions in a range of mixed use, office, commercial and downtown districts. Two damaged houses on adjacent streets can therefore be in completely different positions. The full position is on our page covering the permit and the charter.

What If I Am in a Specific Plan or a PUD?

Then the general rule does not answer it. Permits for Specific Plan zoned properties and properties within a Planned Unit Development are issued only if the SP or PUD allows it, and the conditions of those are a matter for the Planning Commission. It is a specific enquiry rather than a lookup, and worth making before assuming either way.

Mixed Use Adjacency Cuts Both Ways

Being near commercial and industrial land raises what a lot can support and can complicate a straightforward residential repair. Buyers pricing this area are usually pricing possibility rather than the existing house, which widens the range of offers considerably.

For a seller that means the spread between offers here is genuinely large and genuinely explicable. Two buyers seeing different futures for the same lot will produce very different numbers, and neither is necessarily wrong.

How Do I Compare Offers That Differ That Much?

Ask each buyer what they intend to do with the property. Once you know that, you can compare each number against the others pursuing the same plan, which is the only comparison that means anything. Comparing a residential repair figure against a mixed use redevelopment figure tells you nothing.

We publish no zoning determinations, SP or PUD conditions, or development conclusions for individual south Nashville parcels. Metro and the Planning Commission hold those and will answer for your address.

Condition Varies as Much as Zoning

The housing here spans a wide range of ages and states of repair, which means the build year is a weak predictor of what the fire actually did. On stock this varied, buyers discount for what they cannot rule out.

Documentation is the cheapest fix. Photographs, the fire report, a structural letter and the zoning confirmation together convert a discount for the unknown into a discount for the known, and the second is always smaller.

South Nashville in Context

Where mixed zoning meets the oldest fabric, see our page about Germantown and North Nashville. Where the zoning is more uniformly residential, see our page for East Nashville.

The Sections That Change With the District

Permit requirements sit at section 6.28.030 with zoning treatment at sections 17.16.250 and 17.16.070, under ordinance BL2020-187. A permit runs 12 months and renews at $313.00.

Three violations can support revocation, the maximum stay is 30 consecutive days, and no compensation may be taken for occupancy under 24 hours. Tennessee's framework sits at sections 13-7-601 to 13-7-606 of the Tennessee Code.

South Nashville Questions

How Do I Find My Zoning District?

Metro holds it and will confirm it for your address, free. On this side of the city it is the single most decisive fact in the file.

Why Do the Offers Vary So Widely?

Because buyers are pricing different futures for the same lot. Ask each what they intend to build and compare like with like.

Will You Buy in Wedgewood-Houston?

Yes, across the area. Where a redevelopment buyer would pay more than we would, we will say so.

Sell a Fire Damaged House in South Nashville and Wedgewood-Houston