Guides
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Panther Creek Schools, Explained (Frisco ISD)
Panther Creek is one of Frisco’s established neighborhoods — homes dating to the early 2000s, larger lots, mature trees, a community park and trails — in a city where a great deal of the housing stock is much newer. For the families who buy here, the school question usually comes first. The honest answer for…
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McKinney ISD’s New Attendance Boundaries, Explained
If you are buying a home in McKinney — or already own one — the school campus your address feeds into may not be the one you assume. McKinney ISD adopted new attendance boundary maps in late 2025, and the new maps took effect with the 2026–27 school year. For families shopping in growth areas…
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Trinity Falls MUD Taxes, Explained
If you are pricing a home in Trinity Falls, the master-planned community in McKinney, Texas, there is a line in the tax picture that surprises a lot of buyers: the MUD tax. It is not hidden, but it is often missing from the quick price comparisons buyers make between a new community like Trinity Falls…
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Panther Creek, Frisco Real Estate Facts
The sourced facts behind our Panther Creek coverage, each figure attributed and dated. For the narrative version, read the guide to living in Panther Creek. The neighborhood Location: west-central Frisco, Collin County, Texas — ZIP 75035, minutes from Eldorado Parkway and Preston Road. Era: established community; Panther Creek Estates Phase I homes appear in county…
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Living in Panther Creek, Frisco
Panther Creek is one of Frisco’s established neighborhoods — built out in the early 2000s in west-central Frisco (ZIP 75035), when Frisco was still a fraction of its current size. That timing is its advantage: larger homes on generous lots, mature trees, and a settled, lived-in feel that the city’s newer master-planned communities are still…
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Trinity Falls, McKinney Real Estate Facts
The sourced facts behind our Trinity Falls coverage — each figure attributed and dated, because numbers about a neighborhood should be checkable. For the narrative version, read the guide to living in Trinity Falls. The community Size: 2,000 acres in McKinney, Collin County, Texas (ZIP 75071), developed by Johnson Development, which acquired the community in…
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Living in Trinity Falls, McKinney
Trinity Falls is a 2,000-acre master-planned community in northwest McKinney, built along the East Fork of the Trinity River by Johnson Development. It is one of the defining new neighborhoods of McKinney’s northward growth — a community planned for roughly 5,000 homes, organized around 450 acres of open space, a 350-acre park, and more river…
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Conway, Arkansas Real Estate: Prices, Schools, Taxes and Colleges — The Facts
Conway, Arkansas Real Estate: The Facts, Sourced The short version: Conway is the Faulkner County seat in central Arkansas, about 33 miles northwest of Little Rock, and home to three colleges — the University of Central Arkansas, Hendrix College and Central Baptist College — which earned it the nickname City of Colleges. The Census Bureau…
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Little Rock Mortgage Facts: 2026 Loan Limits, Programs and Arkansas Rules
Little Rock Mortgage Facts: 2026 Loan Limits, Programs and Arkansas Rules The short version: For 2026, Pulaski County sits at the national baseline on every major limit — conforming $832,750 (FHFA), FHA 1-unit $541,287 (HUD Mortgagee Letter 2025-23) — and VA loans carry no limit at all for borrowers with full entitlement. USDA’s Guaranteed program…
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Belton, Texas Real Estate: Prices, Schools, Taxes and Lakes — The Facts
Belton, Texas Real Estate: The Facts, Sourced The short version: Belton is the Bell County seat on I-35 between Austin and Waco, with a median sale price of $322,442 (Homes.com, trailing 12 months, crawled August 2026), one school district — Belton ISD, TEA-rated B (80) in 2025 — and a combined property-tax rate of $2.0046…