Carrie Underwood's House: The 400 Acres in Franklin and the 3 Homes Before It

Carrie Underwood lives at the far western edge of Williamson County, Tennessee, in the Pinewood community west of Leiper's Fork, on a farm that runs to roughly 400 acres. That location is not a guess and it is not a fan map. It came out of a county fire dispatch: when crews were called to the property in June 2024, WKRN reported the address west of Leiper's Fork, and Williamson County Fire Rescue sent all 8 of its stations because the place sits far enough from everything that a normal response would not have been enough.

The land came first, and it came raw. In 2011 Underwood and her husband, the former Nashville Predators captain Mike Fisher, bought 354 undeveloped acres for $2.9M, then paid another $350,000 for an adjoining 50 acres. The Boot, writing in early 2013 while the couple were still selling off her earlier house, put the whole outlay at about $3.2M for roughly 400 acres, which is what those 2 purchases add up to. Do the division and the first tract cost about $8,200 an acre and 50-acre add-on cost about $7,000 an acre.

What they bought was dirt, not a house. The couple designed the place themselves and spent years building it, living in a barn on the property in the meantime, and they did not move into the finished house until 2018, 7 years after the closing. Underwood said in 2016, with construction still running, that her list of requirements came to a wood-burning fireplace, a porch swing, and rocking chairs. The house that eventually went up is a modern farmhouse, and it is the smallest part of the story: the grounds carry horse stables, barns, gardens, a greenhouse, and a lake.

What 400 acres in Williamson County used to cost

In 2011, Williamson County was still a place where large agricultural tracts changed hands at agricultural prices, and the western third of it, out past Leiper's Fork toward the Hickman County line, was the part the development had not reached yet.

The County has reached its potential. NewsChannel 5 reported in 2024 on an 18-month study by University of Tennessee economist Charley Martinez, who assembled figures the state does not track: Tennessee has already lost about 1.5 million acres of farm, forest, and pasture land to development and is on course to lose 2 million by 2027. Williamson County has lost more farmland than any other county in the state over the preceding 5 years.

The price follows the people: and it's the reason why so many celebrties are leaving Hollywood for a the beautiful rolling hills of Williamson Country. In the same report, the average home sale across Williamson County had reached $1.1M, and 12-acre parcels were changing hands between $800,000 and $1.2M. That is somewhere between $67,000 and $100,000 an acre. Against the $8,200 an acre Underwood and Fisher paid in 2011, the ground under that farm has moved by roughly an order of magnitude in a decade and a half, and the reason a 400-acre block still exists out there at all is that somebody bought it whole before the subdividing started.

The night the garage burned

Shortly before 10 p.m. on a Sunday night in the middle of June 2024, a fire alarm call from the property was upgraded to a structure fire almost immediately. Williamson County Fire Rescue dispatched all 8 county stations, and the Fairview department sent a tanker and a crew as mutual aid, which is what a rural response looks like when there is no hydrant to pull from. Crews arrived to flames at the detached garage and knocked them down before they reached the house, then worked hotspots for hours as the fire pushed up into the roofline.

The detail that saved the building was already on the property. The farm keeps a 10,000-gallon water tank, and the crews tapped it rather than losing the first minutes of the call to finding a water supply. Investigators looked at a UTV parked beside the garage as the likely origin. Underwood's representative gave the only statement the family made: “There was a fire on the property on Sunday night, which was quickly contained. There was no fire damage to the primary residence, and the family and their pets were unharmed.”

The farm is a working one

The animals and the garden are not set dressing. Underwood told the Dr. Josh Axe Show in 2023 that the household eats off its own ground: “I love that our meals, especially dinner, it's like you look on our plate and everything on our plates is something that either came from the garden.” The meat, she said, is what Fisher brings back from the field. She added the part that gives it away as a real operation rather than a hobby: “We eat what we have. We eat seasonally.”

She has been equally plain about what the work costs her. On The View in March 2026, talking about raising 2 sons on the place, she described the version of herself the boys see most: “But mom makes dinner. I'm usually covered in dirt, or I have farm animals everywhere, or I'm covered in poop or whatever it is.” The garden is the part she volunteers about unprompted, and she has called it her happy place.

Brentwood, 2007 to 2019

Before the farm there was the opposite of a farm. Underwood bought a house in a gated golf community in Brentwood in 2007, 2 years after winning the 4th season of American Idol and 3 years before she married Fisher. She was 24.

The house had been built in 2000, early in a wave of custom construction that ran through the community from the late 1990s into the 2000s, and Williamson Source described it as an Italian villa style sitting on the 1st tee box with a covered porch facing a pond. The golf course at its center is an Arnold Palmer Signature design laid across 200 acres of creeks and elevation change. The parcel ran about half an acre. Set the 2 properties side by side and the trajectory reads clearly enough: half an acre behind a manned gate, then 400 acres and no neighbors at all.

In November 2017 Underwood tripped on a step outside the Brentwood house while walking the dogs and broke her wrist. Her own account of it is undramatic: “one little step that I went to catch myself on, and I missed.” The move that followed was slower than the tabloid version suggested. The family moved out in late 2018, and Underwood told The Boot they had “been in the process of moving for a long time.” The house went on the market in February 2019 asking $1.45M, empty, with bare walls in the photos. The record for that address lives at Carrie Underwood's former Brentwood house.

The first house, Franklin, 2005

The house she bought straight off American Idol was in Franklin, and it cost $384,000 in 2005. It was a 2-story with a fireplace and multiple living rooms, and by the standards of what came later it was an ordinary suburban house bought by a 22-year-old who had won a television show. She lived in it about 2 years.

It also produced the one real-estate result nobody puts in a celebrity profile. When it finally sold in early 2013 it went for $372,500, about $11,500 less than she had paid 8 years earlier. Her first house lost money. Everything after it did not!

Ottawa, 2010 to 2014

The outlier in the portfolio is Canadian. Fisher was still with the Ottawa Senators when the couple took a custom-built house on 11 wooded acres in Carp, in Ottawa's rural west, in late 2010. In February 2011 he was traded to the Predators, and the point of the house went with him.

It sat. The place went on the market in the summer of 2013 asking $2.2M, with an enclosed porch and fireplace, a wine cellar, a home theater, and a gym. By November the ask had come down to $1.95M. It sold in the spring of 2014, roughly a year on the market. The pattern that started there is the one that ends on the Franklin farm: Fisher's career moved the family to Tennessee, and Tennessee is where they stopped.

More Nashville front doors

Williamson County holds a good share of them, from the gated clubs in Brentwood to the farms out past Leiper's Fork. Start with celebrity homes in Nashville, take the west-county run with our Modern Country Franklin and Brentwood tour, or read how we handle celebrity addresses themselves.