April 2026

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – The Leslie Majors Team Published April 2026 | Serving Ellis County, DFW, and All of North Texas The Single Greatest Predictor of Neighborhood Appreciation Is Not What You Think The single greatest leading indicator of long-term neighborhood appreciation is not schools. It is not highways. It is not even...

Published: April 2026 | Reading Time: ~18 minutes The Chart Going Viral on Reddit Is Real. The Panic Around It Isn’t. There’s a chart making the rounds on Facebook and Reddit right now that’s scaring the daylights out of homeowners across America. A red “NOW” stamp sitting at the bottom of a 25-year range. A line that looks like the housing market just walked off a cliff....

Let me be direct with you because that’s what I do. A 75-acre, 1,065-unit mixed-use development is coming to Palmetto Road in Waxahachie, Texas. Phase 1 alone carries a $35 million price tag and that’s just the opening bid. The full project spans multiple phases, with a total capital commitment that hasn’t even been publicly disclosed yet. Construction begins this year and if you own a home...

If you’ve been scrolling TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve seen the posts. Viral charts. Apocalyptic headlines. People claiming that if home prices had just tracked income growth since the 1970s, the average house today would cost around $170,000. And now, right alongside those posts, you’re seeing headlines screaming that sellers outnumber buyers by over 600,000 nationally, the biggest gap ever...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Serving Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 Last Updated: April 19, 2026 | Reading Time: ~18 minutes The Insider Take: Galleria Dallas just filed a $4.2 million permit with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to rebuild its Northwest Entry & Plaza....

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Waxahachie, TX | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com Last Updated: April 13, 2026 | Reading Time: ~25 minutes ⚡ Companion Resource: This article is a deep dive on the Iran conflict as a geopolitical force on North Texas real estate covering the history, the fallout, 2026 forecasting,...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Serving Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com Most agents are about to spend the next thirty days posting daffodil emojis and “spring market is heating up!” graphics. I’m going to do something different. I’m going to tell you exactly what...

Published: April 2026 By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Serving Ellis County, Waxahachie, and the Greater DFW Metroplex You saw the viral social media post. “40 New Laws Have Gone Into Effect in Texas in Order to Attract More Residents to the State.” And you probably thought what most people think: Is that even...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Ellis County, Waxahachie, Midlothian, DeSoto & Greater North Texas DFWUpdated: April 2026 | Reading Time: ~15 minutes Here’s what I know about social media real estate content: most of it is designed to get shares, not to protect your money. And when a post blows up with 9,000...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Serving Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas The Headline That Should Have Stopped You Cold I want you to sit with this for a second. One of the most respected, financially stable banks in the state of Texas just re-entered the mortgage business after a 20-year absence...