Buyer: Julie Boos, trustee for the Pretty Little Peacock Trust
Sale price: $1.435 million
Builder/seller: C. Rogan Allen
Seller's agent: Amanda Wachtler (Pilkerton Realtors)
Buyer's agent: Cindy Lockhart (Crye-Leike Realtors)

Rogan Allen, son of the late and legendary WLAC DJ "Hoss" Allen, is starting to specialize in building luxury homes for musicians, it would appear. Working with architect Sharon Pigott, he built a striking Green Hills home that Kings of Leon bass player Jared Followill bought in November. Now, a few blocks away, he has sold this spec home to country singer and American Idol darling Kellie Pickler.

Some disclosure seems appropriate here. This column regularly names celebrity buyers of homes when their identities can be confirmed, and we are more often than not able to learn who the real buyer is when a trustee makes the purchase. We find that other parties will inevitably make such info public soon after a star buys a place, and we know there is public interest in who is buying the most expensive homes in town. We hope we have not made too many celebs too unhappy, but we do as we must.

Here's the complication in the case of Pickler's buy: The author of this column lives immediately across the street (in a decidedly un-"headline" home, to be sure). He and his family recently met Pickler while sledding the icy bunny-slope between our homes. Amid a close-knit neighborhood where residents, their kids and their pets regularly mix and mingle, the politic thing would be not to mention who the real buyer is on this one. (We have already seen the Gray Line short bus outside the Followill home.)

But life, as Rodney Crowell memorably sang, is messy. "Headline Homes" is treating this transaction like any other we would cover. That's what the job demands. Going forward, though, neighborly consideration will be more important than the pursuit of any celebrity scoop.