By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | TREC #0805459 Last updated: July 23, 2026 Ellis County has 29 data center power requests on file totaling roughly 23.9 gigawatts, the most of any county in Texas, and the man who runs the grid has said out loud that most of them will never get built. Hold both of those facts at the...
Last updated: July 21, 2026 Every real estate feed in Texas lit up when the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe broke ground on a 685,000-square-foot casino resort out in East Texas. The renderings looked like a slice of the Vegas Strip dropped into the pines north of Livingston, and the comment sections filled with the same question from Waxahachie to Fort Worth: when does Dallas get one? Here is the read...
An "Active" license means someone passed a background check at some point in the past. It does not mean anyone has checked on them since. Last updated: July 2026 I am a TREC licensed real estate agent in Texas and I want you to know why you shouldn't treat a TREC license as your only measuring stick of an agent's trustworthiness. The people best positioned to show you where this system stops...
By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® — North Texas Market Insider | Serving Ellis County, the I-35E Corridor, and the DFW Metroplex Last updated: July 19, 2026 Two headlines hit your feed this month. CNBC ranked Texas the second-worst state in America to live in, and WalletHub called it the fourth most financially distressed state in the country. Both studies are real. Both are being screenshotted by...
Update, July 8, 2026: This report covers June, and June's story has already flipped. Days after the ceasefire was signed, it cracked when Iran attacked three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The United States answered with fresh strikes, revoked Iran's oil waiver, and President Trump, speaking from the NATO summit, called the interim deal "over". Oil jumped roughly 6% and mortgage rates ticked...
By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Ellis County, Waxahachie, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com Two numbers went viral this summer and almost everyone made the same mistake, reading them as separate stories. A record 25.2 million adults under 35 are living with their parents, and a...
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