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This 4 Bedroom New Home is READY NOW and is marked down 15% from $491K to just $419K, plus ARG clients will receive an additional $17,000 Cash Rebate for a Net adjusted cost basis of just $402K!

This efficient 2600+sf 1.5 Story home, offered by a respected area home builder is LOADED with 4 Beds, 3.5 Baths, and a 2.5+ Car Tandem style garage. This is hard to find NEW HOME on an interior lot with a very hard to find STONEBRIDGE RANCH ADDRESS at bargain-basement new home pricing!

On the half-story up is a bedroom, full bath and game room. Home offers a gourmet style kitchen with a professional cooktop, Island, White Cabinets, Stainless Appliances, 2 full baths and a powder bath down. Home is on an interior lot.

Stonebridge Ranch is North Texas's

Collin County Real Estate Market - September 2017

People are complaining about the slow market in Dallas-Fort Worth, but here in Collin County, it's not such a bad place for most home owners and sellers. Actually, considering the challenges this state has met with regard to inclement weather and economical challenges with oil prices, the real estate market is doing better than expected.

Stats for September 2017

Collin County single-family home prices sold for a median $320,000, up 6.7% from 2016. The Collin County real estate market is performing over 30% higher compared to the average Dallas-Fort Worth MLS.

Newer homes, dating 2010 or higher, are selling for a median price of $358,900. This is also the season for end of year deals as DFW

Available NOW and REDUCED is this gorgeous patio home with a hard to find master bedroom on the first floor!! This 5 Star Masterplan neighborhood offers great location convenience, lifestyle convenience and easy access to the 121 Tollway, Allen, Frisco and Plano and value. For example the Patio Home next door is priced in the mid $400's!

Award Winning Realtor® Mike Askins at ARG can help you find any builder's bottom line. You still get ALL builder sales promotions, plus as an ARG client, you get 3% CASH BACK! ARG rebates help consumers save serious money. Our rebates work to reduce your new home's cost basis by THOUSANDS of Dollars.

New Home Sales are always time sensitive. For more information about this listing and our client services, cash

Year-end deals keep happening! Why wait until next year when labor, building materials and interest rates are expected to be higher, when you can get a red hot sale now, be moved in before the Holidays, and get a larger commission rebate from ARG! At ARG we want your business, and work to help you find the most savings possible on your new home purchase. Why have it any other way?

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It is hard to find this low of a price for such a luxuriously appointed new home inside the sought after Prosper ISD. 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 infrastructure projects complete, including the North Dallas Tollway Extension, the value of Prosper Homes are expected to improve.

This 4 bedroom 3 bath home, built by a trusted area home builder is gorgeous and turn-key ready home for a fast 30-day close! New home buyers get a full builder warranty as well

4616 Parma Lane, Frisco, TX– $614,990 - MLS #13701351

The Lakes on Legacy

This is the type of home realtor's only dream of selling - the perfect house and it is in fact, perfectly unique! Situated in the Lakes of Legacy, a gated Frisco community, this exclusive home is the only 1 Story of its kind, looking at general age and features, across all Frisco Gated Communities. The happy new homeowners will have quick access to EVERYTHING via excellent, developed side streets, the N. Dallas Tollway and the 121 Tollway/ Business Corridor.

This desirable Frisco one-story plan, built in 2012 with an amazingly secluded masterpiece of a backyard retreat, comes with a brand new Riverbend pool, travertine decking, outdoor kitchen and putting green! Home

Are we nearing the end for cheap money? This week, the downtrend for interest rates hit a wall, along with the dollar rallying on foreign currency exchanges and gold trading back most of its recent gains. All these factors together are signalling higher real interest rates. There are many threads to follow about the economic direction of the U.S. and nothing is certain, but at this juncture, the consensus is December will see a .25 point rise in rates and that means interest rates most likely will increase, and plateau before the actual Federal Reserve rate hike occurs in December. The December Fed meeting will also give further market guidance concerning for rate hikes in 2018. 

There are many sources to follow concerning the economic direction of the

Tis the season for incredible new home savings in Dallas Fort Worth! This specific COMPLETED New Home, located in McKinney, is part of a major master-planned community and comes with a large 16% discount PLUS $20,000 ARG New Home Buyer Cash Back Rebate!! HOA fee in the $700's, with no MUD taxes, and an excellent community location, plus a trusted builder brand.

With mortgage rates in the 3's, and future new home costs in question due to storm-related labor and material shortages, this might be the perfect time to grab that special deal you could have only dreamed about in recent years past.

This home is located near a Gated Luxury Apartment Community, that is also part of the HOA, and under HOA rules and guidelines and is known for high rents. All

2017 continues to be a year of changes. In various DFW locations, we saw new home sales slow down to a crawl by August and this has created a rare buying opportunity with the current levels of new home inventories. 

Then came Hurricane Harvey and Irma which has fundamentally, in a 2-week space of time, changed the underlying cost of new construction via labor and material shortages. Additionally, mortgage interest rates are currently range bound with current "A Paper" rates around 3.7% and crude oil prices are at bullish multi-year highs, all of which helps the Texas economy. All these combined factors speak to renewed housing activity in Dallas Fort Worth and rising new home prices.  

WE MAKE IT CRAZY EASY TO FIND NEW HOME DEALS LIKE NEVER BEFORE!

Megatel's Mega 2017 Year-end Clearance Sale is NOW! Comparatively speaking, Megatel Homes offers solid new home value with their ingenious system of including many sought-after upgrades in their basic pricing structure. When you do the math, it is hard to beat Megatel pricing numbers. The GOOD news is Megatel is now pushing to move several HUNDRED DFW Inventory Homes, and this is your chance to find a deal, save some money, and EARN AN ARG 3% NEW HOME BUYER CASH REBATE WORTH THOUSANDS MORE IN SAVINGS FOR THE ULTIMATE "MEGA-WOW!

Megatel is also offering 2017 year-end deals on their new home inventory