Real estate
BY PATRICIA ORTIZ
Home Edition
2026
Readers, welcome to your annual Community Impact Home Edition. This guide features news including key real estate trends and new developments unique to your neighborhood. 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 on the impacts of a new state law that was enacted to stimulate apartment development. This edition also features an update on a new single-family housing project near Plano East Senior High School that was approved in April, as well as the most recent data from the real estate market in the city. 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. Thanks for reading!
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Plano sees impacts of new state law on development, decisions (Page 16)
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See the latest real estate data in Plano ZIP codes (Page 18)
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Plan for 50 single family homes OK’d near Plano East Senior High School
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Plano officials unanimously approved a plan for 14.1 acres of residential development along Los Rios Boulevard. The area was rezoned to allow for the devel- opment of single-family homes at a City Council meeting April 27. In a nutshell The approved rezoned property is located north of Meadows Baptist Church and west of Plano East Senior High School. The 50 single-family homes on this prop- erty will have 7,000-square-foot lot sizes, or 9,000-square-foot lot sizes at the ends of a block with a three-car garage, according to city documents. There will also be a 20-foot-wide landscape edge on the western boundary of the property with an 8-foot metal fence and one tree
every 30 feet. One resident shared concerns about costs for future homeowners to maintain fencing for the benefit of other nearby homes. “If the homeowner did not want to be bur- dened with that fencing and that greenscape, they wouldn’t move there,” Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Rick Horne said. Multiple residents and council members showed support for the zoning change at the meeting, noting the development’s proximity to the high school and proportional lot sizes. “The support that the neighbors have for this, we quite frankly don’t see that a lot, so it’s refreshing,” Mayor John Muns said. The background The 14.1-acre development was first tabled by
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the Planning and Zoning Commission in Novem- ber 2025 to provide more time to speak with the developer, property owner and nearby residents, Plano Director of Planning Christina Day said. Planning and Zoning then requested that the single-family rezoning be a planned development in March. The development was last presented to Plan- ning and Zoning on April 2, Day said.
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