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...
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 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”...
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...
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 | 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 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...
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 Let me give it to you straight. On March 13, 2026, President Trump signed two executive orders aimed directly at the housing affordability crisis in this country. And within about 48 hours, my...
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