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From Rodeos to Residential Boom: Why Mesquite Is Turning Heads

By Shelby Skrhak / December 2, 2024 /

For years, Mesquite has been known more for its rodeo and sprawling Town East Mall than for brand-new master-planned residential communities. That’s because — quite frankly — Mesquite is where you go when you’re headed for piney woods or your out-of-town friend says they want to see something with Texas flavor. (Incidentally, that’s the city’s…

This Forney Home Is Loaded Like a Dallas Diva, But a Fraction of the Cost

By Candy Evans / June 26, 2024 /

It’s no secret that buyers coming into North Texas are increasingly seeking homes in the exurbs for good reason: They get great schools and generally better value the further out they go — more spacious, more land, lower property taxes. I’m going to show you a home right now that might make any Dallas resident…

Ebby Halliday’s Jacksonville And Forney Offices Get New Sales Leaders

By Joanna England / March 31, 2023 /

Melanie Baker and Coleman Taylor are dynamic leaders that have worked hard to serve the clients that walk through the doors of their respective offices. Their efforts have not gone unnoticed, as Baker has been named sales leader of Ebby Halliday Realtors’ Jacksonville office and Taylor has been promoted to sales leader of the brand’s…

2022’s Hottest ZIP Code in North Texas is Found in Forney

By Joanna England / January 6, 2023 /

When I moved to the Dallas area in 2005, Forney was a tiny town with maybe two exits and a giant jackrabbit stationed just down the road from the town’s true claim to fame: a petite replica of the Statue of Liberty. Over the past 17 years, the Kaufman County town has morphed into a…

This Mesquite Home is Literally Off the Charts

By Daniel Lalley / August 12, 2022 /

Just off I-20, between the intimate communities of Heartland and Crandall, sits an area almost undefined on the map. Here, residents enjoy beautiful, open countryside and the adjacent excitement of the DFW metroplex to the west. But where exactly is this utopia? Some say it’s Forney. Others swear it’s Mesquite. Honestly, both would have been…