The Chrisleys' Nashville Homes: Belle Meade, Brentwood, and Back

Todd Chrisley made his money in real estate before he made it on television. Chrisley Knows Best ran 10 seasons on USA Network between 2014 and 2023, built on a Southern family, a sharp-tongued father, and a house the cameras never left. The first seasons were shot around Atlanta. In 2016 the family moved the whole production to Middle Tennessee, and everything that followed, the second house, the federal trial, the prison terms, and the pardon, happened from a Nashville base.

The house they landed in was smaller than the one they left behind. Fox Business, reporting on their return to it after the 2025 pardons, wrote that the family paid $1.6M for it in 2016, on a little more than half an acre in the area everyone calls Belle Meade. The house itself went up in 2014, which makes it a recent build on a long-settled street. Realtor.com, in coverage syndicated by Yahoo, described a living room with French doors, a wet bar, and 2 fireplaces.

A Belle Meade address that Belle Meade does not tax

Here is the thing the real-estate write-ups all miss. Belle Meade is not a Nashville neighborhood. It is a city of its own, 3.1 square miles and fewer than 3,000 residents, incorporated in 1938 on ground that had been part of the Belle Meade plantation John Harding founded in 1807. When Nashville and Davidson County merged into a metropolitan government in 1963, Belle Meade kept its charter. Its residents pay Metro and they pay the city, and the city runs its own police force.

Metro Nashville's cadastral parcel record settles which side of that line the Chrisley house is on, and the answer is Nashville. The parcel's tax district is Metro's urban services district. The parcels directly across the street from it are coded to Belle Meade. The city limit runs down the middle of the block: one curb pays a Belle Meade tax bill, the other does not.

The record is specific about the ground, too. The lot runs 0.57 of an acre, the same as every other lot on its side of that block, and it is zoned RS40, the low-density single-family district Metro Planning pegs to a minimum lot area of 40,000 sq ft, roughly 0.92 of an acre. At 0.57 of an acre the lots on this block fall well under that, which is what happens when a modern zoning map is laid over a street cut up long before it.

The far side of the street has a paper trail the Chrisley side does not. Those parcels are described in the county index as lots in the New Golf Club subdivision, whose first plat was recorded in June 1916, followed by a revised plan filed by the Bransford Realty Company in November 1919 and another plat in December 1921. The Chrisley parcel carries no subdivision name at all, only a metes-and-bounds description tying it to a corner. It was land left over from somebody else's golf-course development, and it waited most of a century for the house that stands on it now.

One more line from the record is worth holding onto. The last conveyance the parcel carries is a quitclaim deed recorded in March 2017, a few months after the 2016 purchase, which moved the title into a family trust. Nothing later appears on it.

From Belle Meade to Brentwood, and back

By 2019 the family wanted more room and more distance. In April of that year Julie Chrisley bought a much larger house in Brentwood, in Williamson County, from the former NHL forward Mike Ribeiro. Bravo put the price at $3.4M; TMZ later reported $3.375M. Photographs published at the time showed a double-height entry with a winding staircase, an indoor basketball court, a home theater, and a pool.

The reason for the move was not size alone. Distractify, covering it in 2020, quoted Todd saying that “security has become a big issue,” after people began turning up outside the first house. The family traded a corner lot on a through street for a gated development.

That house is the one the show's later seasons were filmed in, and it is the one they lost. TMZ reported in January 2024 that it had sold off-market in April 2023 for $5.2M, roughly 3 months after Todd and Julie reported to prison, with the proceeds pointed at their restitution obligation.

The federal case, start to finish

A federal grand jury in Atlanta indicted the couple in August 2019. On June 7, 2022, a jury convicted them on every count of a superseding indictment: conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. Prosecutors described a decade of loans obtained on falsified documents and income kept off tax returns, with Atlanta News First putting the loan total at more than $30M.

In November 2022 the district court sentenced Todd to 12 years, Julie to 7, and their accountant, Peter Tarantino, to 3. Both Chrisleys reported to prison on January 17, 2023.

The appeal produced a split result. On June 21, 2024, the Eleventh Circuit upheld the convictions of Todd Chrisley and Tarantino but vacated Julie's sentence on a narrow point, holding that “the district court erred in holding Julie Chrisley responsible for losses incurred in 2006 without explaining its basis for doing so.” The panel sent her case back so the loss figure, and with it the restitution and forfeiture, could be recalculated. At the resentencing on September 25, 2024, the district judge sided with prosecutors and left the 84-month term in place.

The case ended outside the courts. On May 28, 2025, President Trump signed full and unconditional pardons for both, and both walked out that evening, Todd from a federal prison camp in Pensacola, Julie from a facility in Lexington, Kentucky.

Who has been living there

Through the prison years the Belle Meade house stayed occupied. Savannah Chrisley lived in it while raising her younger brother Grayson and her niece Chloe, and handled the upkeep. Fox Business wrote in May 2025 that Savannah “became the owner of the home about five years ago through an ownership transfer,” and the Realtor.com coverage dates that transfer to 2020. The county parcel record carries no conveyance after the March 2017 quitclaim, so whatever changed hands in 2020 did not land on the parcel as a new deed.

After the pardons Todd and Julie came back to this house, and Savannah moved out to a condo, telling reporters what she would not miss was the landscapers and the pool people. By September 2025 the couple were talking to People about Charleston and a mansion they hoped to turn into a hotel. On an April 15, 2026 episode of their podcast the destination had changed again: Texas, with houses under construction and Chase Chrisley calling it the family's “final landing spot.”

Which leaves the Belle Meade house as the one constant in a decade of moves, still the address the family comes back to between chapters. For the rest of the city's guarded front doors, start with our guide to celebrity homes in Nashville.