Real estate
BY JACOB VAUGHN
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 Richardson’s initiative to diversify its housing stock and add more middle housing. This edition also features a roundup of ongoing apartment projects across the city, along with the latest real estate data in every ZIP code in Richardson. 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.
What's inside
Local realtor speaks on Dallas- Fort Worth housing market (Page 16)
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Check out the latest real estate data across Plano (Page 16)
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Base Power looks to power North Texas with home batteries
Texas-based Base Power, a provider of backup bat- teries for homes, is looking to expand its statewide reach through an expansion into the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The company announced a $200 million Lone Star State expansion to include a new factory in Travis County in April, and has plans to go national. Base Power offers backup power options and can lower customers’ monthly energy bills, according to its website. The backup options are powered by batteries. When the system isn’t in use, the battery fills up in preparation for an outage. These batteries are different from generators in that they’re not gas-powered and they automatically switch on when outages occur, said Cole Jones, the company’s head of growth. “It switches on automatically in less than half a second,” Jones said. “It … can keep you going for days at a time.”
Base Power batteries sit outside homes and turn on in the event of power outages.
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