Home Buyers

Rates, tariffs, the Iran war and Hinojosa’s property tax plan: where midterms are taking North Texas housing in 2027, and why DFW buyers shouldn’t wait.

How Will The Midterms Shape The North Texas Housing Market In 2027?

Last updated: November 4, 2026 Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | TREC License #0805459 Elections move housing through expectations first and policy second, and the North Texas buyers who wait for the policy will give up the negotiating leverage they have today and end up competing with everyone who waited alongside them. Last night...

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Are Robot Built Homes Coming To North Texas? – D.R. Horton’s New Plan

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team | North Texas Market Insider™ Last updated: November 2, 2026 A new headline is circulating: Robots can frame a house in about eight hours, and that headline is going to hit your neighbor's group chat long before anybody reads past it. Promise Robotics CEO Ramtin Attar told HousingWire that his system can assemble the structural...

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Homebuyers are facing increasing pressure and many are resorting to waiting on the sidelines. Here's how prepared buyers are winning in 2026.,

Why Is It So Hard to Buy a House in North Texas Right Now?

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...

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Builders in DFW are now beating resale on price and incentives. Here's where the real deals are this fall and how sellers can fight back.

New Construction Homes Now Cost Less Than Resale in DFW

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...

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Apartment Rents Are Falling in DFW, But Not For The House Your Family Actually Needs.

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...

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The Fed raised rates on September 16, 2026, and signaled another hike may be coming. Here's what it means for North Texas buyers, sellers and builder incentives.

The Fed Just Raised Their Rates & Expectations: What This Means For North Texas Home Buyers

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...

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Single women now outpace men as first-time buyers. Here's how a one-income buyer in North Texas can win in this market.

Single Women Home Buyers Outnumber Men 2:1 -Your Guide To Buying On 1 Income

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,...

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14% of U.S. home sales fell through in July 2026. In Fort Worth, 18.1%. What’s killing DFW contracts right now and how sellers can keep theirs alive.

Why Home Sales Are Falling Through in 2026 | The 7 Warning Signs

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...

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Mortgage rates hit a one-year high at 6.66%. But 34% of DFW homeowners already carry rates above 5%. Here is what the lock-in story gets wrong and where rates go next.

Mortgage Rates Just Hit a One-Year High Leaving A Third of DFW Homeowners Frozen

Roughly 34% of Dallas-Fort Worth homeowners currently carry a mortgage rate above 5%, according to UT Arlington's housing research. The mortgage lock-in effect is weakening in DFW, with over a third of homeowners experiencing the opposite. The 30-year fixed climbed to 6.66% this week, a one-year high, per Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Every feed is running that headline, and it will...

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ChatGPT just introduced ads, will this destroy their credibility the same way it did for Google? Here's how to protect yourself when using AI

ChatGPT Ads Are Here – Signaling the End of Trust?

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...

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