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It's that time of the year! Homes with pools are in demand and offers an opportunity to avoid the time consuming, large scale construction project, and today's generally higher pool costs. Texas is a summertime location, with months of hot weather, some years, worse than others, and having your own backyard pool can help you and your family cope as well as provide many years of happy memories.

With your own private pool, sunshine becomes your new Texas friend!

Tip: Use the "White Input Area" of the "MLS Location Bar Listing Finder" (found at the top of the page) to select city, town, zip code, school or school district, or master-planned community name. You can even input street names without the number to see if homes with pools are offered

It is so easy to take control of your online new home search with DFW New Homes Realty, especially when honing in on Prosper New Homes on Greenbelts. Our amazing and very exclusive VOW MLS search based system gives you a true virtual real estate office experience, and the ability to get really detailed in how you select, sort and locate homes you would consider.

We offer nearly DOUBLE the MLS listing information when compared to other real estate websites, giving you the advantage you'll need to quickly sort through homes you want, versus those you don't. See Listing Example.

Then, should you engage me as your Realtor, I get to work finding the builders bottom line, pulling COMPS, (see a recent example of a "Deal Priced Prosper New Home") and

(SOLD - But I can Find You Others!!) Excellent Top Tier Builder has ONE COMPLETED SPEC LEFT in this 5 Star Master-planned Prosper Community!! This HOT DEAL has a total concession of nearly $100,000! I routinely find special BUYS for my new home clients that others have paid upwards of tens of thousands of dollars MORE. With 15 years of deal-making successes, here's your chance to cash in on a quality, Bottom-line deal and be moved-in for the upcoming July 4th Holiday.

This gorgeous home is over 4100sf, is on a nice private oversized cul-de-sac lot, is in beautiful all white brick (energy reflective), has 16SEER dual stage moisture controlled AC systems for the lowest possible energy bills, is BRAND NEW, with FULL WARRANTY, Prosper ISD, no MUD or PID,

You know, the best DFW New Home DEALS are nearly never fully revealed in MLS. Sure, you can instantly access MLS price reductions on this website and review price histories as an ARG™ client. Knowing market pricing is step number ONE for making a better home purchase decision. Having access to instant price reduction information is just another exclusive tool ARG™ provides to its clients to help make their online time more productive.

As an ARG™ client, I use my 15 years of top producing new home experience to better help you. This includes, price negotiate with the builder, for further concessions and price reductions, referrals to lenders offering excellent rates, and more cost-effective insurance brokers, plus providing advice and helping to

Every year, Gallup surveys Americans to determine their choice for the best long-term investment. Respondents are given a choice between real estate, stocks, gold, and savings accounts.

For the sixth year in a row, real estate has come out on top as the best long-term investment! That has not always been the case. Gallup explains:

“Between 2008 and 2010, covering most of the Great Recession period that saw plummeting home and stock values, Americans were as likely to name savings accounts or CDs as the best long-term investment as they were to name stocks or real estate.”

This year’s results showed that 35% of Americans chose real estate, followed by stocks at 27%. The full results are shown in the chart below.

Bottom Line

    Top Days to List Your Home for Sale [INFOGRAPHIC]

Some Highlights:

• ATTOM Data Solutions conducted an analysis of more than 29 million single-family home and condo sales over the past eight years to determine the top days to list your home for sale. Activity spikes on Memorial Day holiday weekend.
• The top five days to list your home brought in a 10% premium over market value and are all in either May or June!
• “Families start their home search when they know their kids will be out of school and when the weather is ideal for home viewing and moving, giving home sellers an upper hand in price negotiations.”
• There is still time to list your home before these dates pass you by!

To consult with Mike at DFW New Homes Realty

Here's some positive housing news! Today's homebuyers can now find mortgage interest rates below 4% on 30-year money, and near 3.25% for 15-year money. Rates are the lowest they have been in over a year. Additionally, market forces are biased towards lower future interest rates. That makes now a great time to find your next home or to start a new construction "build-job" with a close date in 2020.

If you're looking to find a deal on a new home, I can help you connect to value, offer a Free New Home Move-up where you save half or even ALL of the traditional 6% listing commission, or a cool cash rebate that will put thousands of dollars back in your pocket.

WHY SEARCH FOR YOUR NEXT HOME ON THIS WEBSITE?

Unlike big National Real Estate

We all want to pay our fair share of taxes, but tax appraisal districts are increasingly forcing a sizeable percentage of Dallas Fort Worth area homeowners to pay inflated tax bills based upon an assessed "tax value price" that exceeds real market values, which as it turns out is a violation of the tax statute. Yeah, ouch!

Today, the nuisance of overvalued Texas tax assessments has become an endemic problem. It is not unusual for Metroplex homeowners to see an assessed tax value in their 2019 Tax Notices, that are $50K or more over actual real market values. Many homeowners may not realize they were paying more taxes than they owed until they sell their home for less than their tax assessed value.

How can this problem be fixed? Well, outside of

ARG clients get all sort of useful information and have the advantage of using their buyer cash rebate to reduced interest rates, pay closing costs or just deposit it their bank.

Buying a New Home? Learn more about the ARG new home buyer advantage and how we can help you become a successful new home buyer.

SOLD! Here's a great buy, not in MLS from a recognized top new home builder. This extensively updated REDUCED PRICE Builder Model Home features 4600+sf, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths. 2 beds down, Study, Game, Media, front Courtyard Living, large rear Outdoor Living area with FP, Media and Sound, Outdoor Kitchen area, .25 Acre Cul-de-sac Lot and yes, this home is packed with advanced energy efficient features. And then the buyer gets to keep the furniture, furnishings, media and whole house electronics, appliances, all for SOLD an ARG is offering a $15,000 Cash Rebate too and Builder is OFFERING $12,000 in SELLER PAID CLOSING COSTS!

After closing this home, you'll need to lease back to the builder until year's end, so you get a guaranteed lease. The