By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team Last updated: October 13, 2026 Buying a house in North Texas is hard right now because every number in the deal turned against first-time buyers at the same time: prices sit high against paychecks, mortgage rates just climbed back above 7%, property taxes and insurance quietly add hundreds to...

Last updated October 5, 2026 By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team For as long as most North Texas buyers can remember, the rule was simple enough to fit on a yard sign: new costs more. That rule is now broken. In Zillow's July 2026 data, newly built homes in the Dallas metro sold for a median of $175 per square foot, while existing...

Last updated: October 5, 2026 By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team On September 15, Realtor.com and Zillow joined a 14-organization coalition called Let America Build, and most of the headlines ran straight to rescue language, with one trade outlet announcing that Realtor.com had assembled an "all-star crew to fix US housing...

Last updated: September 28, 2026 AI's real hit on the DFW housing market isn't a wave of layoffs. It's the rate relief everyone was promised that isn't coming, a generation of first-time buyers who never get hired, and a power fight playing out in Ellis County right now. That's the argument. Everything below is the evidence, and I'm going to walk you through it in the order it matters to your...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team Last updated: September 15, 2026 Everyone in Dallas is celebrating the $100 billion number, and that number is telling the wrong story. On October 5, 2026, Energy Transfer LP, Sunoco LP, SunocoCorp LLC and USA Compression Partners are scheduled to begin trading on the Dallas-based Texas Stock...

Here is the most misleading headline in North Texas real estate right now: Dallas-Fort Worth rents are dropping. It is true. It is also nearly useless to you, and if you are a family renting a three-bedroom house in Waxahachie while you wait for something to get cheaper, it may be the most expensive piece of accurate information you read this year. DFW overbuilt apartments, and that glut is dragging...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Last updated September 17, 2026 At 2 p.m. on September 16, 2026, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, and the bond market barely flinched. Mortgage News Daily reported that the hike had been almost entirely priced in, so bonds held steady through the...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Serving Ellis County, DFW and Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 Last updated: September 14, 2026 The most consequential number in the first-time buyer market this year has nothing to do with mortgage rates, and almost nobody selling houses has said it out loud yet. Among first-time buyers,...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | TREC #0805459 | Serving Dallas-Fort Worth, Ellis County & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | Published September 12, 2026 Before the August Numbers, Here Is Where You Are Standing Today Yesterday morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August Consumer Price Index, and...

14% of U.S. home-purchase agreements that went under contract in July 2026 collapsed before anyone reached a closing table, the highest seasonally adjusted cancellation rate in nearly three years, according to Redfin's July 2026 contract cancellations report. In Fort Worth the figure was 18.1%. In Dallas it was 16.3%. Both sit above the national average., and that is where most national news coverage...