DFW Real Estate Blog

Years ago, most folks around the DFW Metroplex, did not know where Anna, Texas was, but that is changing. Today Anna Texas is slowly weaving itself into the DFW fabric thanks to continued business growth, affordable housing, the massive Highway 75 expansion, and now Apple Moving their iPhone development team to Sherman.

The facts with each passing year are becoming clear, the entire Hwy 75 corridor from McKinney to Sherman, including Anna is on the move and this will affect real estate values well into the future.

NEW HOME COMMUNITIES IN ANNA, TEXAS

Anna offers New Home Community choices such as Avery Point, North Point Crossing, Anna Town Square, and Lakeview Estates with prices starting in the low to mid $200's.

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This top-tier builder needs to move these five beautiful inventory homes and will listen to offers, but time is of the essence! Smart buyers know that you make a lot of your future equity buying low,  but that means acting when the opportunities present themselves. If you're in the market now and can close before 4/1 and would rather not wait ten months to build, these luxuriously appointed and modern 5 Bedroom floorplans (and one 4 Bedroom Plan), could be your ticket.

These Luxury Level homes are currently marked down up to 9% before negotiations, are on large lots, loaded with nail down wood floors, gorgeous kitchens, double ovens, professional cooktops, ornate Master Baths, Study, Game & Media Rooms, 2 Beds Down and 3 Car Garages, plus large rear

So we have the FED, thinking its time to raise interest rates in the United States. The problem is, they could not be more historically wrong.

Years ago, before the Half-Trillion Dollar U.S. Annual Trade Deficit, back when we had a manufacturing based economy, it was necessary for the FED to keep interest rates higher to help tamp down inflation. The Fed's chief inflation-fighting tool was to raise interest rates. Higher interest rates helped the banks remove more currency from circulation and when fewer dollars are chasing goods and services, that generally works to control price inflation. 

With today's aggregate foreign trade deficits already doing the work of "Higher Interest Rates," by removing billions of dollars from the domestic economy,

New home builders across Dallas Fort Worth often choose not to publish their bottom line prices in MLS. Additionally, homes builders may have "Fiscal Year-end" dates in the Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter, so there are many times of the year that specific builders are cutting new home deals. Check out this price reduction blog too!

Like many businesses, builders want to earn their projected margins and as such, are reluctant to openly publish their real bottom line prices, and instead choose to offer this information to select Realtors. Why? Because if an $849,000 home can be sold for $729,000, that does not mean a buyer who is unaware of the builder's true bottom line, might not be willing to strike a sales price of $769,000 or more.

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The only remaining question regarding Amazon is where they will move HQ2? Well, Let me try and clear that up for you, Dallas Fort Worth style.

Having lived in the DFW Metroplex since 1979, I have seen the Metroplex explode forward as a business mecca, and if Amazon moves here, they will be able to integrate with the minimum of fuss, due to the accommodative nature of local governments, workforce capacity, and the business community.

When you look at Amazon's "real" location choices it becomes clear, that DFW, also known as America's largest centrally located inland metropolitan area within the United States, and according to the Wall Street Journals recent article, the number one location choice for Amazon's HQ2, is holding a great poker hand.

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Fiscal year-end is looming, and the builder wants this Prosper City, Prosper ISD located home SOLD! Builders are unlike private sellers and can't simply decide not to sell. Completed new homes cost them money every month, and when the fiscal year end looms, creditors want to see a clean slate and hence builders will haggle much more to clear away all closeable inventory.

This luxury Level, energy efficient ~3500sf 1 Story 4/3.5/3 on an 80' Lot and in a gorgeous 5 Star Master-planned community is priced in the $600's (initially priced at $650K), with an expected sales price in the upper mid $500's. Home is ready to close now, but must close before 3/30/2018. Large 1 story plans are always hard to find and with a reduced price ahead of a hard fiscal year

It's 2018 and New Home DEAL Time in Little Elm off of Hwy 380. Why wait to begin paying off your home, when you can begin the process now. There are no do-overs when it comes to time an renting is not a long term solution to your financial health.

This modern 1 Story is walking distance to the 5 Star HOA Center, Park, Pool, Elementary and Middle School and Walking Trails! Boasting an efficient 4/3 floorplan, with Study gives an open and roomy feel to this ~2250sf home.

You'll love the PRIVATE interior Lot which will help any future resale effort years down the road should you decide to resell. Additionally, this home's backyard and covered patio will get lots of shade during the hot summer months, which is great for the kids, cookouts and backyard

 BACK ON THE MARKET, FINANCING FELL THROUGH AND BUILDER JUST CUT PRICE. WITH REBATE NET PRICE DROPS TO JUST $307K | NOT IN MLS!

SOLD! It is nearly impossible to find this low of a price for such a luxuriously appointed new home inside the sought after Prosper ISD. In fact I can only find these 4/3 New Home listings, so you can compare and see how well priced this home really is at just $319K or $322K with blinds.

Prosper, is currently seeing BILLIONS of dollars in development, roads, infrastructure, master-planned residential communities, along with new business development. Prosper has a bright future!

Prosper as a city has been purposely designed to be a unique, fully master-planned city, with the best of modern community amenities. As