Jan Meade, Premier Homes & Properties

09/23/2026

I'm curious, how many of you have interest in a tiny home?

07/14/2026

Summary of the market movement in ETN and Gate City

Executive Summary
June was a healthy month, led from the center. Sales and prices both rose across the region. The strength was concentrated in Johnson City and Kingsport. Both showed price power on top of volume. That is the market's engine right now.
By DON FENLEY
June's Tri-Cities housing home sales rose 4.5% from a year ago. The median sale price climbed 4.75% to $309,000. Both numbers moved in the same direction. That is the sign of a healthy market.
The Cities That Carried the Month
Johnson City and Kingsport did most of the region's business. Together they had 252 sales. That's close to a third of every sale in the region. Add Jonesborough, Greeneville, and Bristol, TN, and the top five markets account for roughly half of all June sales.
Johnson City did something worth noting. It passed Kingsport in total sales for the month. Kingsport has held the top spot for quite a while. This time Johnson City pulled ahead. It did so while its median price rose more than 16%. Rising sales and rising prices at the same time point to real demand.
Where Prices Ran Highest
Jonesborough was the region's price leader in June. Its median topped $408,000. It reached that mark on strong sales volume.
Piney Flats and Mountain City also posted high median prices. So did Abingdon. These are smaller markets, though. Their prices can swing hard when only a dozen homes change hands.
One market needs a caution flag. Telford shows the highest median on the list at more than $409,000. Set it aside. That figure rests on just five sales. A move that large in a market that small is not a real trend. It is a quirk of low volume. Read Jonesborough as the true price leader.
Kingsport's Quiet Strength
Kingsport told a strong price story of its own. Its median price rose over 24% from last June. That is far above the region's overall pace. That kind of price gain signals steady demand.
Read the Small Markets With Care
Some of June's biggest percentage swings came from the region's smallest markets. Gate City's sales more than doubled. Erwin's sales jumped 60%. Those look dramatic on paper. But each rests on a small base. In a small market, a few extra sales move the percentage sharply. The same caution applies to Mountain City's price gain and Bristol, VA's price drop. These figures are worth a look. They are not trends yet.
Two markets were too small to rank at all. Bulls Gap and Surgoinsville each closed fewer than five homes. Numbers that small cannot support a fair comparison. They sit out this month.

06/16/2026

"Slow down, you move too fast
You got to make the morning last..."
Simon and Garfunkel

Time for a change?

06/16/2026

PRICE IMPROVEMENT! DREAMING OF A QUIETER LIFESTYLE?

05/20/2026

Glad to live in an area where family farms still exist!

Across Appalachia, scenes like this are slowly fading away. Family farms are disappearing. Old homeplaces are being abandoned. The generation that built this life with their own hands is leaving us one story at a time.

But places like this still remind us of who we are… and where we come from.

05/17/2026

Reminds me of the good times I used to have with my grands when they were young.

This is what an Appalachian childhood looks like. A creek. Clean water. A group of barefoot children who know every stone by heart. No screens. No structured activities. Just the creek and the freedom to explore it. Appalachian children learn to read water the way other children learn to read books. They know where the deep pools are. They know which rocks are slippery. They know how to move through the current without losing their footing. They know that a creek is a living thing that teaches you something new every time you visit. Playing in the creek teaches things that school never can. It teaches you how to take risks carefully. How to read your environment. How to trust your own instincts. How to exist in nature without trying to control it. A summer day in an Appalachian creek is not a vacation moment. It is just life. It is what you do on a hot day when you are young and the water is cold and the mountains are all around you. These children do not realize yet that they are living something precious. They just know it feels like freedom. That feeling, that is what the mountains give. That is why people who grow up in Appalachia spend their whole lives trying to get back to the feeling of being a barefoot child in a cold creek with nothing but time and the sound of water and trees all around. Do you have a favorite creek memory from childhood?

05/17/2026

Room to Roam. 13.7acres. Family compound. Cranes Nest River is boundary. Pasture land.

05/17/2026

Welcome to Robinson Hollow!

05/17/2026

05/16/2026

I grew up in Ohio, but my family lived in a holler all their lives. It was a family community and so different than the life I was living. My grandfather hunted ginsing and knew the mountains well. It was a different way of life and a lot of people long for it today.

A holler is not just a place. It is a way of living that most of the outside world will never understand. When you live in a holler you live at the bottom of steep hillsides that rise up on both sides of you. The sun comes late and leaves early. The world outside feels very far away. You are surrounded by forest and creek and the sound of water moving over stone. Living in a holler teaches you things. It teaches you that you do not need much. That a small garden can feed a family. That a creek provides water. That the forest provides firewood and food and medicine if you know where to look. Living in a holler means you cannot run to town for every little thing. It means you figure out how to fix things yourself. How to make do. How to live with what the land gives you. The people who lived in the hollers were not isolated because they wanted to be separate from the rest of the world. They were isolated because the hollers were the only places where they could own their own land and live by their own rules. In the hollers Appalachian families built communities. They built self sufficiency. They built a way of life that did not depend on anyone else or anything else. The holler people were not poor because they had nothing. They were rich because they had everything they needed and nothing they did not. Have you ever lived in a holler? Do you still have family there?