By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com The headline writers certainly had their fun in May with the multitude of global and national events. Mortgage rates climbed for most of the month, and every doom account on your feed treated it...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com Within forty-eight hours this week, both of downtown Dallas’s major sports franchises made their exits official, and most of the agents reacting to it are reading the wrong map entirely. The...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Waxahachie, TX | 214-228-0003 | Published June 2026 When Dallas opened a permanent 120-officer downtown police command center last month, most people in this market filed it under “public safety news” and kept scrolling. That is the most expensive mistake you can make with a real estate...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ Most people saw the headline, thought “good for veterans,” and kept scrolling. That’s the wrong read. That’s the read that leaves money on the table, misses the demographic wave, and lets the prepared buyers and investors move while everyone else is still processing. When a city council votes unanimously to convert a decade-dead...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com Most real estate content tells you what already happened. Home prices went up. Inventory is tight. Buyers have more options now than last spring. Basic stuff you can read on every major portal,...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Mansfield, Arlington, Waxahachie, Midlothian, and the greater DFW MetroplexUpdated: May 2026 | Reading Time: ~18 minutes The Reserve, combined with the $2.5 billion Staybolt Street Entertainment District, is the most significant value-creation event in Mansfield’s history and buyers...

Is Mirabella in Prosper, TX worth it? Here’s everything you need to know about North Texas’s newest high-end gated community, from lot sizes and school zones to builder contracts and the real cost of ownership. Disclosure: This article is original, independently written content published on North Texas Market Insider. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Highland Homes,...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® Serving Ellis County, DFW & Greater North Texas | 214-228-0003 | northtexasmarketinsider.com Here’s something I tell every relocating client who puts downtown Dallas on their list: before you decide if you want to live here, you need to understand the city that exists beneath. Not metaphorically. Literally. Right now, under the glass towers and sun-blasted...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team Published May 2026 | Reading Time: ~22 minutes If you’ve been using ChatGPT to research a home purchase, asking it which neighborhoods to consider, which agents to trust, which markets are worth your money, something changed on February 9, 2026 that you need to understand. That’s the...

Somewhere in North Texas right now, maybe right here in Ellis County, a homeowner is sitting at the kitchen table, watching the inflation headlines, and asking the question I hear more than almost any other: “Is this a terrible time to sell?” It’s a reasonable question. The April 2026 CPI report dropped with headline inflation running at 3.8% year over year, the hottest annual reading since...