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All Blog Entries by Mike Askins

Mike Askins, owner of ARG, is a recognized leader in DFW new home sales. New home buyers need new home realtors to avoid mistakes and Mike Askins is an experienced professional you can trust.

Found 410 blog entries published by Mike Askins.

We cover all DFW New Home Builders, A to Z and many are cutting Spring DEALS, with additional unadvertised price reductions, closing cost incentives, and even construction allowances. Mortgage Interest Rates are rising, and the FED is expected to increase again this month.

Why not LOCK your rate without our amazing preferred lender, steal a great discount, and get an amazing buyer CASH REBATE or FREE MOVE-UP from the New Homes people at ARG™! Remember, MLS seldom reflects the builder's bottom line and many builders prefer to advertise their low prices through select realtors who can get the word out.

Why Not Deal with New Home builders from a position of strength with ARG™

DFW New Homes Realty offers the MOST new homes, ability to search

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Find New Homes for Any DFW SchoolYou can spend days, weeks, and months combing through other Nationwide Real Estate websites, trying to obtain the same information, you can get here with just a single mouse click. ARG™ offers only real-time MLS listings that are For Sale. You control the results you see, whether new, pre-owned, foreclosure or even a relocation listing. Simply tell the Input Location Bar what you want. It is that simple.

Input Location Bar, Controls MLS Search Results

Finding DFW Area New Homes Based On School Name is Now Academic! 

Simply click the Red Link below, locate the specific school name, and click. You'll see discounted New Homes ONLY, but if you simply adjust the "Input Location Bar," you can search ALL listings, new and pre-owned. If you don't care about price reductions, you can "X" that

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End of February New Home Deals in Dallas Fort Worth are READY! Find Largest Price Discounts!

2018 continues to offer an excellent selection of drastically reduced Dallas Fort Worth new homes and ARG™ makes finding them as simple as a CLICK of your mouse! ARG™ offers the most real-time DFW New Home MLS Listing information, room sizes, price histories, financial analysis and much more. Why shop listings and get only partial information? You can also view our Texas Builder Direct link for builder floorplan, community and even Spec Homes not in MLS.

New Homes are our specialty and we display only current real-time DFW MLS listing results from ALL AGENTS AND DFW BUILDERS. The results you see, are 100% dependent upon your inputs. This helps you avoid scads of wasted time, like with other major 3rd Party Lead Capture websites that keep outdated

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Drees 90th Anniversary March Madness Sale! Last Weekend!Smart buyers know, to get a great new home deal, you have to be in the right place at the right time and ready to buy. For buyers who can close by 3/30/2018, Drees Homes has some mighty good deals. Like this luxurious new home, that has been discounted $100K, but that might not be their bottom line.

So here's the Deal straight from Drees!

Drees March Madness 90th Anniversary Sale - Hot Buys, Great Price Reductions!This weekend is the final opportunity to own a stunning Drees home in the highly sought after West Frisco community of Phillips Creek Ranch with $100,000 discount available! The end of the year for Drees is March 31, this is the last weekend for a March closing and the March Madness incentive. Don’t miss this great opportunity! 

FINAL OPPORTUNITY

921 Palmflower Ave. 2 story, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bath, study, game

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2017 was a good year for McKinney real estate. There were 3,905 homes sold with an average price of $346,250. The highest price house fetched $2 million. On average, listings remained on the market for 46 days.

Here are the top 20 McKinney neighborhoods based on the volume of homes sold in 2017.

top selling McKinney Neighborhoods in 2017

Top 20 Selling McKinney Neighborhoods in 2017

Click your desired neighborhood to view current listings, or view all McKinney homes for sale.

Neighborhood # of Sales in 2017 Average Selling Price
Trinity Falls 129 $388,308
Craig Ranch North 122 $297,293
Eldorado Heights 121 $287,979
Heights At Westridge 93 $318,442
Robinson Ridge 71 $328,352
Reserve at Westridge
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DFW priced reduced homes

Looking for a great deal on a new home in Dallas-Fort Worth? Here are the top 10 DFW new home price drops for January 2018. You'll see they range from 20% to 12%, and if you buy from Askins Realty Group, will qualify for our additional rebate. This is just a snapshot of our favorite deals, check our DFW Price Reduction Page to get the entire list.

  % Decrease Cost ARG Rebate Area MLS# Builder
1. 20% $387,990 $7,760 Frisco Lakes, Frisco 13755066 Del Webb
2. 17% $558,000 $11,160 Bretton Woods, Frisco 13509571 Lennar Homes
3. 15% $440,000 $8,800 Trinity Falls, McKinney 13674299 Ashton Woods Homes
4. 14% $474,990 $14,250 Hollyhock,
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Affordable New Homes in Anna, TexasYears 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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New Home Sale in Prosper! Time Sensitive - Save Thousands!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

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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,

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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.

As you can

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