New Construction

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...

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...

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 & Greater North Texas You've seen the signs. Celina. Little Elm. Forney. Anna. Princeton. Beazer Homes has been planting flags across North Texas for years. That's all coming to an end. On August 7, 2026, Dream Finders and Beazer Homes USA announced a...

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® | 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...

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...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider | Legacy Realty GroupServing Ellis County, DFW, and the Greater North Texas Metroplex You saved for years. You finally found the floor plan. The builder walked you through a model home that smelled like fresh paint and possibility. Everything is brand new, so nothing could possibly be wrong, right? Dead wrong. Here’s the reality I...

By Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® | North Texas Market Insider | February 2026 I’ve been watching this development work its way through Waxahachie City Council for nine months. Nine months of planning meetings, public hearings, infrastructure debates, and back-and-forth between Minto Communities USA and city leadership. And on January 28, 2026, in a 3-to-2 vote that generated more buzz in Ellis County...

From Spec Homes to Design Center Decisions: Your Strategic Framework for North Texas New Construction A Market Intelligence Guide by Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® Why This Guide Exists The North Texas new construction market is experiencing something remarkable right now. Dallas-Fort Worth claimed the #1 spot nationally in 2024 with 71,788 new residential building permits, more than any metro in...