What does a square foot ask in East Tennessee? Asking price per square foot, read
A typical listing asks $35 per square foot, up $5 since the last edition.
East Tennessee has 129 active listings right now, down 2 since the last edition. Of those, 127 state an asking price, and the medians below read from them. The median asking price is $290,000, up $2,550 since the last edition. The listings sit in 52 cities, as the listings spell them.
Larger homes ask more in total. The median ask is $800 in the Under 1,200 sq ft band and $100,000 in the 1,200–2,000 sq ft band.
Asking price per square foot is the asking price divided by the size the listing states. A listing with no stated size is left out of the figure, and the figure says nothing about the quality of a home or how it was built.
More homes state 1,200–2,000 sq ft: 5 of the 16 that state a size, 31.3%, down 1 since the last edition. The median home states 1,710 square feet.
Half of the priced listings ask less than $290,000, up $2,550 since the last edition, among 127 priced listings.
The most listings are commercial sale: 20 of the 20 that state a type, 100%, down 1 since the last edition. The median asking price there is $74,950.
The market divides into sections by what a listing states. Commercial has 20 and Land & development has 109. Among the sections, the median asking price runs from $74,950 for commercial to $399,000 for land & development.
More listings ask under $300k: 68 of the 127 that state a price, 53.5% of them, down 1 since the last edition.
Four asking-price bands hold a listing. The $300–500k band has 20, or 15.7%. The $500–800k band has 14, or 11%. The $800k+ band has 25, or 19.7%.
Listings wait longest in the $300–500k band, a median of 186 days. They wait least in the $500–800k band, a median of 129 days.
The band edges are the same every day, so a count can be compared across editions. The under $300k band holds 53.5% of priced listings and the $800k+ band holds 19.7%.
The biggest change since the last edition is in the under $300k band, down 1 to 68.
Knoxville has the most listings, 17 of the 129, or 13.2%, unchanged since the last edition. Lenoir City comes next with 8.
The next four: Sevierville has 7, Jacksboro has 6, Maryville has 5 and Vonore has 4. Together the five busiest cities hold 33.3% of the market.
Among cities with three or more listings, the median asking price is highest in Lenoir City, at $717,750. It is lowest in White Pine, at $35,000, a difference of $682,750.
Listings have waited longest in Madisonville, a median of 339 days, and least in Jacksboro, a median of 37 days.
Thirty-four cities have fewer than three listings, so they get a count and no median.
The city is whatever the listing says it is. A different spelling of the same city is counted under its own spelling, so the counts are of the names as listed.
The median active listing has been on the market 141 days, up 7 since the last edition. That is read from 129 listings with a listing date.
Nine came on in the last 30 days, 7% of those with a date. Twenty-eight have waited between 30 and 90 days, and 92 have waited 90 days or more, 71.3%.
Set beside the edition before it, No. 18: the active count is down 1.5% at 129, from 131; the median asking price is flat at $290,000 ($287,450 before); the median time on the market is up 5.2% at 141 days, from 134 days.
What moved: one listing cut its asking price and two listings left the active market. The biggest cut was $5,000 (20.1%) at US 411 Hwy, Vonore, TN 37885 in Vonore, now asking $19,900.
Of the 127 priced listings, the largest share, 53.5%, asks under $300k.
Knoxville, the busiest city, carries 17 active listings (13.2% of the market), with a median asking price of $299,000 and a median 181 days on the market, the same number of active listings as the previous edition.
How long has the active market been sitting? 7% of the 129 dated listings came on within the last 30 days, 21.7% are between 30 and 90 days in, and 71.3% have passed 90, around a median of 141 days.
The median listed listing measures 1,710 sq ft, and the median asking price works out to $35 per square foot. The biggest size group is 1,200–2,000 sq ft, 5 of the 16 listings with a square footage. Where a lot size is given (129 listings), the median is 1.37 acres.
Source: AskBusi analysis of active East Tennessee MLS listings, November 11, 2026. Asking prices, not sales.
Source: AskBusi analysis of active East Tennessee MLS listings, November 11, 2026. Asking prices, not sales.
By asking-price band
Every price band, as a table
| Price band | Active | Median days | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $300k | 68 | 136 | 53.5% |
| $300–500k | 20 | 186 | 15.7% |
| $500–800k | 14 | 129 | 11% |
| $800k+ | 25 | 146 | 19.7% |
By size
Source: AskBusi analysis of active East Tennessee MLS listings, November 11, 2026. Asking prices, not sales.
Every size band, as a table
| Size | Active | Median asking |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1,200 sq ft | 4 | $800 |
| 1,200–2,000 sq ft | 5 | $100,000 |
| 2,000–3,500 sq ft | 5 | $74,999 |
| 3,500+ sq ft | 2 | — |
What moved
| This edition | Count | Previous edition |
|---|---|---|
| New listings | 0 | 0 |
| Asking price cut | 1 | 1 |
| Asking price raised | 0 | 0 |
| Left the active market | 2 | 2 |
| Came back | 0 | 0 |
By city
Every city, as a table
| City | Active | Median asking | Median days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville | 17 | $299,000 | 181 |
| Lenoir City | 8 | $717,750 | 117 |
| Sevierville | 7 | $170,000 | 68 |
| Jacksboro | 6 | $187,450 | 37 |
| Maryville | 5 | $499,900 | 134 |
| Vonore | 4 | $149,900 | 163 |
| Athens | 4 | $314,500 | 110 |
| Sweetwater | 4 | $290,000 | 198 |
| Madisonville | 4 | $624,250 | 339 |
| Tazewell | 3 | $100,000 | 128 |
| Kodak | 3 | $299,900 | 154 |
| White Pine | 3 | $35,000 | 102 |
| Townsend | 3 | $425,000 | 141 |
| Harriman | 3 | $489,000 | 286 |
| Rockwood | 3 | $160,000 | 148 |
| Clinton | 3 | $375,000 | 75 |
| New Market | 3 | $479,000 | 108 |
| Dandridge | 3 | $499,000 | 275 |
| Jonesville | 2 | — | — |
| Jellico | 2 | — | — |
| LaFollette | 2 | — | — |
| Crossville | 2 | — | — |
| Gatlinburg | 2 | — | — |
| Morristown | 2 | — | — |
| Rocky Top | 2 | — | — |
| Englewood | 2 | — | — |
| Louisville | 2 | — | — |
| Winfield | 1 | — | — |
| Mountain City | 1 | — | — |
| Newport | 1 | — | — |
| Cumberland Gap | 1 | — | — |
| Oneida | 1 | — | — |
| Cosby | 1 | — | — |
| Jefferson City | 1 | — | — |
| Pigeon Forge | 1 | — | — |
| Farragut | 1 | — | — |
| Kingston | 1 | — | — |
| Greenback | 1 | — | — |
| Powell | 1 | — | — |
| Norton | 1 | — | — |
| Loudon | 1 | — | — |
| Blaine | 1 | — | — |
| Pikeville | 1 | — | — |
| Dayton | 1 | — | — |
| New Tazewell | 1 | — | — |
| Alcoa | 1 | — | — |
| Middlesboro | 1 | — | — |
| Kingsport | 1 | — | — |
| Oak Ridge | 1 | — | — |
| Corryton | 1 | — | — |
| Rogersville | 1 | — | — |
| Friendsville | 1 | — | — |
Source: East Tennessee REALTORS® MLS via the IDX feed, as of Nov 11 · asking prices of active listings · a median needs three priced listings or prints —.
This story is part of the Wednesday, November 11, 2026 edition, and the market numbers archive follows it edition by edition. More from the Gazette on Knoxville housing news, Lenoir City housing news, Sevierville housing news, Jacksboro housing news, Maryville housing news, Vonore housing news and Athens housing news. The listings behind it: homes listed in Knoxville, homes listed in Lenoir City, homes listed in Sevierville, homes listed in Jacksboro, homes listed in Maryville, homes listed in Vonore, homes listed in Athens, homes listed in Sweetwater, homes listed in Madisonville, homes listed in Tazewell, homes listed in Kodak and homes listed in White Pine.