Bartlett is a rapidly-growing, full-service city, adjoining Memphis in the southwest corner of Tennessee. Located in the center of Shelby County, Bartlett is at the heart of a metropolitan region of over 1,000,000 people. Our city is readily accessible from five exits off of Interstate-40, and nearby I-240 provides quick access to Memphis International Airport and the entertainment and sports attractions and convention facilities of downtown Memphis. Bartlett is in the Central Time Zone (six hours earlier than Greenwich Mean Time). This area observes Daylight Savings Time (clock set forward one hour, from 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in April to 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October).

Real Estate Market

This thriving city has real estate which many say is highly under-valued.  In September of 2008 the average home price in Bartlett was $182,000 a decrease of 11.2% from September 2007.  There were 66 home sales in the month of September.   There are still real estate deals in this great city but you need a local  market expert to help you.  Sue Parker  is an experienced real estate professional who has had more than a 11 years of home buying and selling experience in the Bartlett area, overseeing more than $25,000,000 of real estate transactions.  For true local and knowledgeable service in the Bartlett TN real estate market, contact Sue directly at 901-624-7887.

Character
Bartlett is a city primarily of detached single-family homes, served by extensive retail, office, and industrial centers along Stage Road/Highway 64 (an east-west arterial crossing the city). In addition, smaller, neighborhood-serving commercial centers are springing up near the newer residential areas well to the north of Stage Road, toward the Loosahatchie River. Bartlett is a green city, building for the future by having trees planted throughout every new business development — especially along the streets — and creating an extensive system of parks and greenways. Bartlett is an aesthetically pleasing city, with the appearance of new buildings, signs, and landscaping watched over by a citizens' Design Review Commission.

Growth Pattern
In existence since about 1829, Bartlett was incorporated in 1866 and remained a small town for another 100 years. From the "old" town of only 508 people at Stage Road and the CSX Railroad in 1960, we grew rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s both through new residents moving here and through annexation, primarily to the east and north, to over 43,000 people today.

As of January 1, 2005, the city limits encompass 23.42 square miles (14,989 acres), and Bartlett's annexation reserve now extends over another 20.54 square miles (13,147 acres), east to the city limits of Lakeland, north across the Loosahatchie River to (and at one point, beyond) Pleasant Ridge Road, and northwest, across Austin Peay Highway (Tenn. 14), to Singleton Parkway (from Bolen Huse Road to the Loosahatchie River). (The annexation reserve south of the Loosahatchie River encompasses 12.86 square miles or 8,231 acres.)

While accommodating new development to the east and north, Bartlett is paying attention to the older areas of the city as well. Current activities include Bartlett Station revitalization (including infill of vacant and underutilized parcels) and adoption in January 2002 of a residential historic district.