By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | Waxahachie, TX | 214-228-0003 | Updated: May 2026 Here’s what most agents won’t tell you: the data from the week of May 1–8, 2026 just drew a line in the sand. 79,220 weekly pending home sales nationally. That’s not a blip. That’s not a seasonal adjustment you explain away at...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Waxahachie, Midlothian, Ennis, Red Oak, and the greater Ellis County and DFW Metroplex Walk through a dead mall and you'll feel it before you see it. The air sits wrong. The light is too bright where it shouldn’t be and too dark where stores used to carry the foot traffic that...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider™ | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors TeamServing Waxahachie, Midlothian, Ennis, Red Oak, and the greater Ellis County and DFW MetroplexUpdated: May 2026 | Reading Time: ~20 minutes Here’s what I want you to understand before you read a single word of this article: the people waiting on the sidelines for rates to “come back down”...

Here’s something most agents won’t tell you upfront: the Texas Attorney General just opened a formal investigation into residential solar companies and if you own or are buying a home with solar panels in North Texas, that changes the conversation you need to have before you sign anything. I’m not writing this to scare you out of solar. I’m writing this because the buyers and sellers I work...

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 Published: May 2026 | Reading Time: ~18 minutes Cut to it: On April 28, 2026, HUD Secretary Scott Turner and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins jointly pulled the trigger on a Biden-era...

Every agent in North Texas is running the same playbook right now. “World Cup is coming. List your house. Make $4,400 a week. Print money.” I’m about to tell you the part they’re not telling you. That $4,400 booking can cost you your homeowners insurance. Not “might", can. And not just for the week the guests are inside. Long after the final whistle in Arlington, long after the tourists...

Here’s what nobody is telling you while you’re scrolling FIFA bracket predictions and arguing about which fan zone has the best food trucks. While you’re counting down to June 14 and the opening whistle of the 2026 World Cup, there’s a different countdown clock running 200 miles south of here in Austin. It’s quiet, it’s not on ESPN and it’s not in your social feed. But it could erase tens...

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...