Real estate
BY GABBY BAILEY
Home Edition
2026
Readers, welcome to your annual Community Impact Home Edition! It’s that time of year where our local news team dives deep into stories a ecting housing, homeowners and real estate in Denton. This guide includes highlights on housing development trends, businesses serving homeowners and real estate updates. Stories found within the guide take a look at a local master-planned community update, including why it’s being renamed. We also gained expert insight on the impact of indoor air quality and mold o ered by a Denton County-based mother-daughter team. Our lead story dives into the city’s policies on a ordable housing, how the Dallas-Fort Worth metro rent rates directly a ects a ordable rental rates in Denton and how city o cials are navigating these trends. Also, check out recent data on the housing market in Denton, including average home prices, average days a home stays on the market and the total number homes sold in the city. All the stories in this edition are written by our team of local journalists who are invested in keeping you updated on your community. This guide is made possible by advertisements from local businesses that support our mission to provide free, hyperlocal news.
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Check out a Q&A with a mold remediation expert on indoor air quality (Page 17)
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Take a look at the latest real estate trends for the city of Denton (Page 18)
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Craver Ranch community in north Denton to get new name
Craver Ranch, the 2,870-acre master-planned community in north Denton, will be named some- thing new before the rst houses are complete. The gist Old Prosper Partners, the developers behind the community, will work with a marketing agency to decide on a new moniker at a later date, said Teague Gri n, one of the partners with the rm. Gri n said Craver Ranch was named after the family who originally owned the land. Old Prosper Partners currently is focusing on laying out the utilities and easements, which will take roughly a year, Gri n said. “[It will take] probably 24-36 months after that to start working on what we need to get done from an internal builder standpoint,” Gri n said. The rst houses are expected to be ready by 2028 or a little later, Gri n said. The community should be nished by 2045.
Future roads
The development will include: 7,091 single-family residential units 1,084 townhomes or other zero-lot line housing units 1,015 multifamily units Around 1.24 million square feet of commercial space 380.5 acres of parkland 13.5 miles of public trails and 18.5 miles of shared-use paths 2 tracts of land for future re stations 3 tracts of land for two future Denton ISD schools and one Sanger ISD school
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