Rockwall County

Huffines Breaks Ground on 900-Acre Horizon Lakes Community in Rockwall County

By Shelby Skrhak / July 7, 2025 /

Dallas-based developer Huffines Enterprises is officially underway with its newest signature project: Horizon Lakes, a 900-acre master-planned community in McLendon-Chisholm. Phase I of the community will bring 1,650 home sites to market, along with an amenity center overlooking the lake. Builders CastleRock Communities, Pulte Homes, and Toll Brothers have signed on, and the first home…

D-FW Housing Market Shifts Gears as Inventory Empowers Buyers

By Charles Grand / May 23, 2025 /

If only mortgage rates were lower because the D-FW housing market seems to be giving prospective homebuyers some serious wiggle room for the first time in years. An analysis of market data by M&D Real Estate found that at least one county in the Dallas metro area has officially entered buyer’s market territory, with surging…

As 2 North Texas Counties See Home Prices Dip, What Does it Mean for DFW Housing Market?

By Charles Grand / April 23, 2025 /

The D-FW housing market might be heading into correction territory, with an increase in new construction inventory driving steep declines in home prices in some North Texas counties. Prospective homebuyers in North Texas have been weathering high prices for several years now amid an ongoing housing shortage. Now, economic certainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s tariff…

Big City in the Country: This Modern Farmhouse Hits the Mark

By Shelby Skrhak / April 30, 2022 /

If you didn’t see that verdant, roaming landscape in this photo’s background, you might swear this modern farmhouse — the style du jour — was located in Preston Hollow. But this 5,865-square-foot home is located on 1.78 sprawling acres in the Rockwall County city of Heath. Heath is a community of more than 8,100 residents…

July Home Sales Down by Double Digits in North Texas

By Tommy Cummings / August 15, 2021 /

Sales of existing single-family homes are seeing dramatic declines year over year, according to the MetroTex Association of Realtors’ July housing report.