Editor's Note: The number-one home on our list was originally listed as a purchase by country star Gretchen Wilson due to a filing error with the Wilson County Register of Deeds. In fact, Wilson sold the 340-acre estate. The story below now contains the correct information. NashvillePost.com regrets the error.
Presales — or apparent presales — were the name of the game in December. Four of the top 10 homes officially spent zero days on the market, usually an indicator buyer and seller had something worked out before turning it over to the market at large.
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