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Plano South Edition VOLUME 13, ISSUE 9 JULY 22AUGUST 20, 2025

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Making room

Plano plans to address single-family housing demand despite lack of space

units to areas that were previously only commercial. In addition, several mixed-use developments underway, including Collin Creek and Haggard Farms, will feature single-family housing components when completed. “From a nancial perspective, we want to provide the amenities that give current and future residents a great quality of life,” Day said. “Hopefully we get the right mix and are providing a really great quality project.”

BY MICHAEL CROUCHLEY

With only 4% of Plano’s land left undeveloped, the city is taking creative approaches to address a “demand for more single-family housing,” Plano Director of Plan- ning Christina Day said. One of these approaches is called “downzoning,” which consists of adding residential

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4 EOS Fitness The gym chain offers personal training, group fitness classes, free weights and Olympic weightlifting platforms, strength training and cardio options, indoor pools and basketball courts, the website states. • Opening 2025 • 600 W. 15th St., Ste. B, Plano • www.eosfitness.com 5 Jashan The restaurant will offer an Indian fine dining experience, according to temporary signage at the future location. • Opening fall 2025 • 7300 Lone Star Drive, Ste. B120, Plano • www.jashandallas.us 6 Le Beef Steak and Frites The restaurant will be a 2,670-square-foot fine dining establishment and will provide a “classic French steak and frites experience to the area,” according to a Shops at Legacy North representative. Le Beef is being created by the same team behind Bavette Grill in Plano and EG Steak, the Legacy North representative said in an email. • Opening in August • 7300 Lone Star Drive, Ste. B100, Plano • www.shopsatlegacynorth.com 7 Mike’s Chicken The menu features a variety of fried chicken options including tenders, wings, dark meat, white meat and more. Additional menu items include sandwiches, salads, baked beans, french fries, coleslaw and more. • Opening 2025 • Northeast quadrant of Renner Road and TX-190, Plano • www.mikeschicken.co

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2 Chipotle The fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain offers custom bowls, salads and burritos. • Opening July 8 • 9625 Coit Road, Plano • www.chipotle.com 3 Max Strength Fitness The fitness studio specializes in results-driven 20-minute

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8 One Lagree The gym offers low impact and core strengthening workouts and incorporates cardiovascular elements. This studio will be the second One Lagree location. A studio is located on Oak Lawn Avenue in Dallas. • Opening in August • 7300 Lone Star Drive, Ste. C105, Plano • www.onelagree.com 9 Pizza Guys The eatery’s menu features a variety of pizza crust options including cheese-stuffed, signature, thick, thin and heart-shaped. • Opening in September • 9617 Coit Road, Ste. 109, Plano • www.pizzaguys.com 10 Whataburger The fast food restaurant chain was founded in 1950 in Corpus Christi and is headquartered in San Antonio, the company website states.

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• Opening fall 2025 • 3860 SH 121, Plano • www.whataburger.com

13 Crispy Cones The business serves soft-serve ice cream in grilled dough cones covered in cinnamon and sugar or other specialty powders. The Plano and Southlake Crispy Cones locations, along with a now open North Richland Hills store, will be the first three in Texas.

• Opening TBD • 9613 Coit Road, Ste. 108, Plano • www.crispycones.com

Relocations

11 Casa Mama The restaurant in south Plano will temporarily close on June 21 for relocation, according to Operations and Strategy Manager Julissa Sanchez. Sanchez said in an email that the restaurant will move from 19129 Preston Road to 2001 W. Spring Creek Parkway, and there is no reopening date set yet. • Closing June 21, relocation TBD • 2001 W. Spring Creek Parkway, Plano • https://casamamas.com

15 Tom Thumb The grocery store’s closure comes amid recent changes for Tom Thumb in the North Texas region after opening a new store in Frisco and closing and rebranding locations in Grapevine and Colleyville, as previously reported by Community Impact. Tom Thumb’s four other locations in Plano will remain open. • Closing July 26 • 2200 14th St., Plano • https://local.tomthumb.com/tx/plano/ 2200-e-14th-st.html

improvement funds for library and public safety facilities, according to city documents. It will cost $67,450. • 2501 Coit Rd • www.plano.gov/998/Haggard-Library

Closings

14 Shinola The Detroit-based company sells watches, bags, jewelry and other accessories. Patrons can continue to shop at Shinola’s Dallas location in the NorthPark Mall. • Closing June 21 • 1039 E. 15th St., Plano • www.shinola.com/pages/plano-store

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12 Haggard Library According to city documents, the roof at the library has reached the end of its anticipated life span and requires updates. The renovations are expected to last for 20 years, and the project is funded through the city’s capital

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Government

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Drainage study set near Collin Creek will not delay project Plano City Council approved a drainage analysis contract June 9 for Spring Creek and its surrounding watershed from 15th Street to Plano Parkway. The analysis comes after the city identi- ed errors in the previous oodplain modeling by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to city documents. What you need to know After the error in FEMA’s oodplain modeling was corrected, the new model showed the culverts were overtopping south of 15th Street, meaning the water was rising above the culverts and spilling out. This modeled scenario presents a potential ood risk in a portion of the road that circles the mall in the case of a 100-year ood—a ood event with a 1% chance to occur in any given year.

Harrington Park updates considered The Plano Planning and Zoning Com- mission approved a revised site plan for Harrington Park June 2, adding two pickleball courts and other improvements. Zooming in The new site plan would expand the park- ing lot northward, and add yard games like corn hole and horseshoe west of the existing parking lot. The new plan would also add two pickleball courts near the parking lot expansion, along with additional concrete trails, connecting to Chisholm Trail.

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The Collin Creek Mall redevelopment project will not be delayed by the study, Plano Director of Special Projects Peter Braster said. “There are dierent ways to solve the problem, so this study is going to tell us which is the best way,” he said. “But, none of that will slow down the work on Collin Creek.” What’s next After identifying the best solution, the next phase will require new design plans and approval by council.

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Plano to increase parks and rec fees

Plano OKs $300K grant for local retail center upgrades Plano residents can expect to see upcoming exterior upgrades and design improvements to the Parker Plaza West retail center located o Custer Road. The details At its June 23 meeting, Plano City Council Parker Plaza West

Plano residents can expect higher fees for a variety of Parks and Recreation services beginning July 1. What happened Plano City Council approved a revised Parks and Recreation fee schedule. Susie Hergenrader, assistant director for recreation, said at the meeting the increase in fees are primarily to help relieve costs associated with ination. The following services will see an increase in fees: • After-hour pool rental • Pool party packages • Facility room rental • Nature & retreat center rental • High Point tennis courts membership and rental • Courtyard Theater and Cox Playhouse rental • Recreation memberships

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unanimously approved an economic development incentive agreement to support facade enhance- ments for the retail center and its businesses. The agreement allocates $300,000 in grant fund- ing toward the property rehabilitation. The property owners are planning $4 million of improvements in total, according to city documents. The retail spaces at 2129 and 2109 W. Parker Road, which are leased out and managed by Harkinson Dewan Commercial, will be the focus of the upgrades. Parker Plaza West was originally developed in 1974 and has not undergone widespread infra- structure or building improvements since opening, according to city documents. Per the documents, the agreement includes: • a $295,000 retail revitalization grant to support facade improvements, including upgrades to

parking lots, building exteriors and lighting as well as ensuring ADA-compliance • a $5,000 fee reimbursement grant to oset city-related permitting, building, engineering and planning fees Some context Plano launched its new retail revitalization grant program in February 2024. According to city documents, the program has also provided funding for other sites, including a $98,000 grant for a shopping center at the north- west corner of Jupiter Road and 14th Street, and a $25,000 grant for a retail center at the northeast corner of Park Boulevard and K Avenue.

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Education

BY JACQUELYN BURRER & ADAM DOE

Plano buys Armstrong Middle School for $8.1M Plano city officials purchased Armstrong Middle School from Plano ISD for $8.1 million at a June 23 City Council meeting, following the school’s closure in June 2024. The gist Plano bought the nearly 18-acre lot at 3805 Timberline Drive as part of an interlocal agreement with PISD to purchase surplus property from the school district, per city documents. The city had previously purchased both Davis and Forman Elementary Schools for a total of $8.4 million in early June after declining enrollment led board trustees to close the campuses, making Armstrong the third school property purchased by the city. Funding for the purchase was available in Plano’s Economic Development Fund, according to city documents.

Plano ISD adds 2 bereavement days Plano ISD employees will get an additional two days of bereavement leave for the 2025- 26 through 2027-28 school years following unanimous approval from the school board at a June 10 school board meeting. In a nutshell Currently, PISD employees can take up to five days of bereavement leave following the death of a loved one, Chief of Employee Services Dr. Duana Kindle said during the meeting. PISD employees are now eligible for seven days of leave. The proposal came from Dr. Kindle and Deputy Superintendent Johnny Hill after receiving feedback from district employ- ees. PISD expects the added bereavement leave to cost $225,000, according to district documents.

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What else? Plano Real Estate Manager Matt Yager said Arm- strong wasn’t included in the previous purchase due to a deed restriction. The restricted 2.6-acre area on the southeast corner of the campus requires that portion of the land to be used for a public school, according to a presentation from Yager. The city plans to remove the deed restriction, which can be done with approval from 75% of prop- erty owners to the east of the school, Yager said. If the city is unable to remove the restriction, the city will negotiate for a reduced price from PISD. Looking ahead The city will decide how to redevelop the prop- erty following community engagement this year.

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Asphalt overlay projects heat up after winter hiatus Work on three asphalt overlay projects resumed in April following winter weather delays, Plano Senior Engineer Samson Bekele said. Plano staff expect the three road upgrades to finish in August. The gist The asphalt projects on Hedgcoxe Road from DNT TOLL SRT TOLL SPRING HEDGCOXE RD.

Lane closures on Plano Parkway set for sewer work Lane closures are set for Plano Parkway from Independence Parkway to Coit Road through early 2027 due to a major sewer

Custer Road to Preston Road; Parker Road between Preston and Parkwood Boulevard; and Midway Road between Park Boulevard and Spring Creek Parkway, are scheduled to be complete in August, Bekele said. The project on Hedgcoxe Road resumed in late April after winter weather forced the road work to temporarily stop. Some background The road projects are arterial overlays, a concrete repair process that is meant to lengthen a road’s lifespan by more than a decade. The overlay reduces the frequency of road maintenance from every five years, to every 15-20 years, Bekele said. The three

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road projects were initially scheduled to be com- plete in the first half of 2025. Looking ahead The city resumed the project on Hedgcoxe Road in late April, and expects to complete it in mid-June. After Hedgcoxe, the city will move on to West Parker Road, followed by Midway Road. The city expects to complete paving Midway in August, Bekele said.

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Events

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Plano’s fallen bur oak tree leaves legacy Although the city of Plano made multiple eorts to prolong the life of a 400 year old bur oak tree growing in Bob Woodru park in Plano, a large rain storm in October 2023 toppled the quadri- centennial stalwart, City of Plano Urban Forrester Marc Beaudoing said. In the spring 2024, the city launched the Quadri- centennial Bur Oak Artist Challenge which invited North Texas artists to create one-of-a-kind works using wood salvaged from the bur oak. Meet one of the artists “It was a fantastic opportunity to be part of something so meaningful for our community,” resident Larry Solomon said. “I thought it would be great to capture the animals of Bob Woodru Park, which for the last 400-plus years, have had shelter and protection from this tree.”

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Coleman Jennings at Love and War in Texas Enjoy a performance from Austin-based country musician Coleman Jennings at Love and War in Texas. Jennings released his rst solo EP in March 2024. • July 20, 4 p.m. • $20-$25 • 601 East Plano Parkway, Plano • tinyurl.com/ColeJenn Ed Bassmaster and Tony Dabas at Mic Drop Comedy YouTube comedian Ed Bassmaster and Staten Island stand-up comic Tony Dabas have teamed up for a nationwide comedy tour. Bassmaster is the former host of prank comedy TV show “The Ed Bassmaster Show”. • July 25-26, 7 and 9 p.m. • $31

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Footloose Enjoy the 1998 musical Footloose at the Willow Bend Center of the Arts. Footloose follows the story of Ren as he moves to a new town where dancing is forbidden. Kevin Bacon starred in the original 1984 lm. • Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 2, 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 3, 2:30 p.m.; Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 9, 2:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m.; Aug. 10, 2:30 p.m. • $20-$32 • 6121 W Park Blvd., Plano • ntpa.org/event/footloose-repertory Quilt Plano Check out more than 300 crafted quilts at the Quilt Plano Show at the Plano Event Center. Attendees will be able to attend a mini quilt auction and enter a rae for a chance to win a massive art deco themed quilt. • Aug. 8-9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. • $15-$25 • 2000 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano • www.qgplano.org/quilt-show

Plano Urban Forester Marc Beaudoing, left, and artist Larry Solomon with the sculpture Solomon created for the Quadricentennial Bur Oak Artist Challenge.

Christmas in July at the Texas Pool Cool o this summer with Christmas in July at the iconic Texas Pool. Guests can take a photo with Santa, enjoy iced hot chocolate and holiday treats. • July 26, 2-4 p.m. • $10 • 901 Springbrook Drive, Plano • www.texaspool.org/event/christmas-in-july

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Christmas in July Market Peruse wares from local vendors at the Christmas- themed Plano Nutcracker Market at the Plano Event Center. More than 100 vendors will sell clothing, holiday and garden decor and more.

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Real estate

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Home Edition

2025

Readers, welcome to your annual Community Impact Home Edition. This guide features news ranging from key real estate trends and new developments unique to your neighborhood to tips on navigating the current real estate market. All of the stories are written by our team of local journalists who are invested in keeping you informed in your community, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses who support our mission. Make sure to dig into our front page story, which looks at current housing trends in Plano as city sta and developers look to expand housing options in the city. This edition also features an update on a new housing development set for Haggard Farms, a mixed-use development in northwest Plano, along with the latest real estate data in every ZIP code in Plano. We’re unwavering in our commitment to provide free, useful news to the community, because we believe everyone deserves to receive high-quality information about where they live.

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Plano commission approves Haggard Farms housing projects Two new housing projects at the Haggard Farms development in Plano are moving forward following unanimous approval by the Plano Planning and Zoning Commission. The details At their June 17 meeting, commissioners approved a revised plan for an assisted living facility that was altered to allocate more land for future single-family residential developments, updating the previous 2023 concept plan. The updated plan expanded the adjacent townhome development from 13 to 18.8 acres by removing the administrative oce buildings that were in the original plan for the senior living facility, according to city documents.

The size of the adjacent assisted living parcel is unchanged, a spokesperson for Forefront Living conrmed. Commissioners also approved an initial site plan for Haggard Farm Townhomes, which will include 188 single-family units and four common area spaces. Both projects were submitted by HEL Land, LLC, and are part of the broader Haggard Farms mixed-use development, which is being devel- oped by Stillwater Capital. The background Haggard Farms was initially approved by Plano City Council in 2021. The 142-acre mixed-use development is set to be located at the northwest corner of Windhaven Parkway and Spring Creek Parkway in one of Plano’s largest tracts of undeveloped land. On top of the maximum 250 single-family units and 700 multi-family units planned for the development, Haggard Farms will also feature restaurants, oces, parks and more. The rst phase of building will center around a

rustic, farm-themed restaurant and event center called The Almanac, which will serve as the project’s anchor. The Almanac will serve locally sourced food, and plans to include a hotel, a pond, a greenhouse and several other features. Haggard Farms is one of several mixed-use projects under way across the city, including Collin Creek, Lavon Farms and The Shops at Willow Bend.

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Real estate

BY CODY THORN

The housing supply in Tarrant County has seen a 25.8% increase year-over-year, Realtor Newman Dalton said.

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Housing market highlights According to data collected by the Collin County Area Realtors, there were several notable year- over-year changes in various portions of the metro area during the month of April.

The number of homes sold decreased in all ZIP codes across the areas of Flower Mound, Highland Village and Argyle. Three of the four area ZIP codes in Colleyville, Southlake and Grapevine had a drop in median sales price year-over-year. The number of homes sold decreased year- over-year in ve out of six Plano ZIP codes.

Keller Williams Realtor Newman Dalton speaks on DFW housing market Throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, changes in the housing market have contrib- uted to trends that may favor buyers, industry professionals say. In an interview with Community Impact , Realtor Newman Dalton of Keller Williams Realty in South- lake discussed some of the changes the market is seeing this summer for both buyers and sellers. Dalton posts content on his YouTube page, The Roof List, looking at the DFW housing market. What have you seen so far in the past ve to six months in the dierence in the housing market? We’re not necessarily going through a recovery in terms of ... going to go back to where things were in 2020, 2021, 2022; I think we’re actually going through more of a correction. It doesn’t look as though we’re going back to 2.5% or 3% mortgage rates. We’re probably going to be settling back into

Three of the four ZIP codes in Frisco saw a decrease in the average home sales price when compared to last year.

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normal. If you look at the last 40 years, ... between 1981 and 1983, mortgage rates got up to 18% and that was one anomaly on one end. Then the completely other end was what we saw in [20]21 and [20]22 with the lower mortgage rates, whereas the average is 7.42%. It’s actually looking like a market correction, maybe leaning toward more of a buyer’s market. What leads to the market becoming a buyer’s market? Some homes are experiencing price drops on listings in the area. The other thing is days on market. If you have price drops, [if] you have long days on market, then you’ve got a little bit more bargaining power on the side of buyers.

If somebody wants to sell a home, what are things you kind of recommend they do, or what should they do before they list it? You want to make sure that your home is in a good state of repair. Pay attention to the details. I was at a home, showing some folks the house. The seller had done, I want to say, approximately $20,000 worth of structural repairs, but then there was a ... vent in the ceiling that was missing, so it’s a hole in the ceiling. While the seller had spent all that time and money correcting their foundation and other things, all the person in the home could see was that missing air vent. That kind of mentally negated everything else. Just making sure your home is in a good state of repair is going to make you a lot more competitive.

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What’s happening

The gist

Prior to redevelopment, Collin Creek Mall was a fully commercial property. The almost 500 single-family homes set for the development at the corner of Alma Drive and 15th Street when it is finished is indicative of the pattern of downzoning to add housing options in Plano. In June, City Council approved an expansion of a townhome development at Haggard Farms, another mixed-use development set for the corner of Spring Creek Parkway and Windhaven Parkway, which will add to the project’s planned housing component. The city partnered with the developers at both projects to establish public improvement districts, which reallocate sales tax back to development costs. Plano Director of Special Projects Peter Braster said that PIDs “help bring down the cost to the developer so that they can construct homes.” Day added that city staff work with devel- opers to incorporate a housing element in

Single-family units 500 965 250

Mixed-use development

Multifamily units 2,300 47 700

The most common pattern for developing an area sees homes built first, with commercial development following after. More concisely, “retail follows rooftops,” Day said, and the development of Plano to this point was no different. “Plano residential development occurred largely from the 1960s through the year 2000,” Day said. “By the year 2000 our residential land started running out, and you started seeing higher density development start to occur. … The city does have 4% undeveloped land right now, so we’re at 1,863 acres as of January of this year.” Day said demand for more rooftops in Plano is still high. And with little room left for more housing, Plano is utilizing “downzoning” to include more residential development in places that used to be only commercial.

Collin Creek

Willow Bend Haggard Farms

SOURCE: CITY OF PLANO/COMMUNITY IMPACT

redevelopment projects. “What we’re trying to do is balance those competing interests of having it be a financially successful project that works both short-term and long-term for all parties,” she said. “We know there’s a great demand for more housing in this area. We also know there is a need to provide the infrastructure to support more housing—the com- mercial side helps support the residential side.”

Homes built in Plano

Build date

Another thing

2020 or later 1,488

-95.6% decrease

Enrollment by school year

2010-19 13,249

0 10K 20K 30K 40K 50K 60K

-14.9% decrease

19,440

2000-09

Plano ISD has had declining enrollment every school year since it peaked at 55,700 in 2012. As a result, the district shut down four cam- puses—Armstrong and Carpenter Middle Schools and Davis and Forman Elementary Schools—at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year. District officials pointed at increased home prices and lower housing stock as one reason for PISD's decreasing student body.

34,187

1990-99

26,066

1980-89

16,561

1970-79

3,831

1960-69

0 10K 20K 30K 40K

SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS DATA/COMMUNITY IMPACT

SOURCE: PLANO ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT

NOTE: X-AXIS IS IN SCHOOL YEARS

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The impact

What’s next

In April 2019, the median home sales price in Plano was $351,500 while 545 homes were listed on the market that month. The median sales price of a Plano home was up 56% to $549,000 in April 2022. This April, the median sale price remained stagnant at $550,000 while 417 new homes were listed on the market. Realtor Pamela Harrison said that while housing inventory is up across North Texas “in areas with lots of new construction like North Fort Worth, Aubrey or Princeton,” housing inventory in Plano is “tighter.” “In Plano, you’re buying location, schools and established neighborhoods—not just square footage,” she said. “Inventory is tighter, especially under $600K. Buyers may face more competition for updated homes in hot school zones.” Harrison said that interest rates currently hovering around 6.5%-7% have “priced some buyers out, reducing competition.” She added that homeowners who bought or refinanced at lower

City officials are expecting further changes to Plano’s housing landscape as a result of the most recent Texas Legislative Session. Day said that Senate Bill 840 could have “a meaningful impact on the city’s land use policy.” The bill, which goes into effect on Sept. 1, will allow mixed-use or multifamily developments by right in any area of the city zoned for office, commercial, retail or warehouse uses. “The bill allows multifamily housing by right in commercial areas,” Day said. “And it preempts the city’s ability to regulate density, parking height and lot coverage.” Day said that city officials are still assessing the impacts. More information will be presented to council on July 28.

Median home price in Plano

$351.5K

$549K

$550K

$600K

$398K

$500K

4400K

$425K

$506.5K

$200K

+56.5% increase

SOURCE: COLLIN COUNTY AREA REALTORS/COMMUNITY IMPACT

interest rates “aren’t in a rush to list.” Day added that redevelopment projects will add a mix of for-sale and for-rent housing options to the market in Plano. “That is really the community’s next generation of redevelopment,” Day said.

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The number of homes sold was down year over year in May 2025 in all Plano ZIP codes except 75025. New listings were up in May across all Plano ZIP codes. Residential market data

Number of homes sold

May 2024

May 2025

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-13.95%

-37.93%

-9.43%

-2.94%

+20.51%

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75025

May

2024

2025

364 495

New listings

Number of new listings +15.25%

277 229

Closed sales

+61.22%

+26.47%

+46.15%

+63.64%

+24.32%

Homes under contract

244 236

MARKET DATA COMPILED BY COLLIN COUNTY AREA REALTORS • WWW.CCAR.NET

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