Lily Dailey, Realtor

Lily Dailey, Realtor As a Knoxville native with a passion for exceptional service, I help clients navigate the luxury real estate market with confidence and ease.

I deliver a bespoke experience tailored to your goals — and your lifestyle. Let’s elevate your next move.

Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸No emails. No alarms. No labor. Just good food, cold drinks, sunshine, and hopefully a very comfortab...
09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day! 🇺🇸

No emails. No alarms. No labor. Just good food, cold drinks, sunshine, and hopefully a very comfortable patio. ☀️😂

And if you spend the weekend scrolling houses and casually saying, “Okay but THIS one…” you already know who to call. 🏡😉

Hope you have the best Labor Day weekend!

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

VOLS ready 🍊🏈🧡
09/05/2026

VOLS ready 🍊🏈🧡

Labor Day weekend AND the first home Saturday of the season. There are two completely different Knoxvilles on offer and ...
09/05/2026

Labor Day weekend AND the first home Saturday of the season. There are two completely different Knoxvilles on offer and both of them are correct. 🍊

THE LOUD ONE
Vol Navy sailgating at the docks, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
WDVX Blue Plate Special at Visit Knoxville, noon to 1:00 pm, free
Tennessee vs. Furman at Neyland, 3:30 pm
Knoxville Smokies vs. Chattanooga Lookouts at Covenant Health Park, 7:00 pm

THE QUIET ONE
Goat yoga on the Kern's Food Hall lawn, 8:30 to 10:30 am
Market Square Farmers Market, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Storytelling at the Ijams Nature Playscape, 10:00 am to noon
Evening paddle at Ijams, 6:30 to 8:30 pm

And if you want to stretch it into Sunday, the Big Kahuna Labor Day Festival is at World's Fair Park, 3:00 to 9:00 pm.

A few of these ask you to RSVP, so check before you head out.

This is the part of my job I like most, honestly. When people move here, they are not buying a floor plan. They are buying a Saturday. This is what one looks like.

So which Knoxville are you this weekend, loud or quiet? 👇

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

When you bought it, it was exactly the right amount of house.The kitchen was enough kitchen. The yard was enough yard. Y...
09/04/2026

When you bought it, it was exactly the right amount of house.

The kitchen was enough kitchen. The yard was enough yard. You probably stood in the empty living room on day one thinking this is so much space, what are we even going to do with all of it. 💭

Then life filled it. The people multiplied. The work came home. The hobby needed a room. The stairs stopped being charming and started being stairs.

You changed. It did not.

Nothing about the house got worse. Your life just got bigger than the footprint you picked for it, which is a wonderful thing to have happen.

So if you have started quietly wondering what your house would bring today, hear this: outgrowing a house is not a complaint about it. It is proof it did its job. You are not walking away from something that failed you. You are letting it do the exact same thing for the next person while you go find the version of your life that needs more room.

That is a good problem, and it is a genuinely fun one to work on. When you are ready to see the numbers, I will sit down and go through them with you. No pressure attached, ever.

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

Nobody warns you that house hunting with the person you love is basically theater. 😅ACT ONE, the lists. You want a garag...
09/03/2026

Nobody warns you that house hunting with the person you love is basically theater. 😅

ACT ONE, the lists. You want a garage. They want a soaking tub. You both describe yourselves as flexible. Neither of you is flexible.

ACT TWO, the tour. You love it out loud. They go quiet. Quiet is a whole sentence and you already know which one it is.

INTERMISSION, the car. Silence until the stop sign. Then you both talk at exactly the same time.

ACT THREE, the deal. You get the garage. They get the tub. Neither of you mentions the wallpaper you both hated.

Tell me which act you are in right now. I will guess how it ends. 🎭

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

Somebody has definitely told you that renting is throwing money away. I am going to disagree with them. 🏡Rent is not was...
09/02/2026

Somebody has definitely told you that renting is throwing money away. I am going to disagree with them. 🏡

Rent is not waste. Rent buys you flexibility, and it buys you a landlord who owns the water heater when it goes out on a Sunday. Those are real things and they have real value.

So the question was never "is renting bad." The question is which one fits the next five years of your life.

WHAT RENTING WINS
The freedom to go in thirty days if the job moves. No repair bill you did not plan for. Nobody asking you to care about a roof.

WHAT BUYING WINS
A payment that does not renew every year at whatever the market says. The freedom to paint it, gut it, plant something, get the dog. And a share of every single payment coming back to you instead of to a landlord.

The honest answer is that buying usually wins when you plan to stay put long enough to clear the costs of getting in and back out. Time in the home is the lever. If you are not sure you will be here in three years, renting might genuinely be the smarter call, and I will tell you that.

If you do want to look, start with a number instead of a Zillow spiral. The median Knoxville home sold for $410,000 in July. Yours may be nothing like that, and that is exactly the point of finding out.

Send me a message and I will connect you with a lender I trust so you can shop with actual information. No pressure, no pitch, just your number.

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

Nobody tells you that the best part of owning a home is how ordinary it is.You spend months looking at square footage. B...
08/27/2026

Nobody tells you that the best part of owning a home is how ordinary it is.

You spend months looking at square footage. Bedroom counts, lot size, the year the roof was done. All of that matters, and none of it is the reason you will love the place.

The reason is a Tuesday.

It is standing in your own kitchen at 7pm with absolutely nothing special happening. It is the light in the back room in October. It is painting a wall a color somebody else would hate and nobody getting a say in it. It is hearing a noise at night and knowing exactly what it is.

That is what you are actually buying. Not an investment, not a milestone for the internet. Just a whole lot of regular days somewhere that is finally, entirely yours.

And there is a good bit to choose from right now! Knoxville had 1,733 active single family listings in July, the most since last November.

So if you have been circling this for a while, let's go look.

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

Most sellers ask me what their house will sell for.The better question is what they will actually keep.The median Knoxvi...
08/25/2026

Most sellers ask me what their house will sell for.

The better question is what they will actually keep.

The median Knoxville home sold for $410,000 in July. Almost none of those sellers put $410,000 in the bank, and that is not a bad thing, it is just how a closing works. Your loan payoff comes off first, and it is bigger than your balance because it includes interest through your closing date. Then taxes get prorated. Then title and closing costs. Then whatever gets negotiated after the inspection and the appraisal.

None of that is scary once you can see it on paper. What is scary is finding out on closing day.

So here is what I do before we ever talk about a list price: I build you a net sheet. It takes about fifteen minutes. You get a realistic range of what lands in your account at three or four different sale prices, and suddenly every decision after that gets easier. Should you fix the deck? Should you take the offer with the higher price or the one with fewer contingencies? The net sheet answers both.

Know your number first. Then we go get it.

Thinking about selling this fall? Send me a message and I will build yours, no obligation, no pressure, just the real math.

Lily Dailey, REALTOR, ABR, MRP
📱 Call/text: 865-257-4680
📞 Office: 865-800-3544
🌐 daileydreamhomes.com
Greater Impact Realty

08/22/2026

See you at five thirty 🥳

Address

420 Bearden Road
Knoxville, TN
37919

Telephone

+18652574680

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