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06/23/2026

Property Tax Breakdown by City – Dallas County & Collin County (Approximate 2025 Rates)

Property taxes in Texas vary by city, school district, county, college district, and special districts. The rates below are approximate total tax rates and can vary slightly depending on the exact property location and school district. Dallas County publishes annual tax rates, and tax calculators are available through the appraisal districts.

Dallas County Cities
City Approx. Total Tax Rate

Dallas 2.5% – 2.8%
Garland 2.4% – 2.7%
Mesquite ~ 2.8%
Irving 2.3% – 2.6%
Richardson 2.2% – 2.5%
Rowlett 2.3% – 2.6%
Sachse (Dallas County) ~2.77%
Addison 2.5% – 2.7%
Cockrell Hill 2.7% – 3.0%

Collin County Cities
City Approx. Total Tax Rate

Frisco 1.9% – 2.3%
McKinney 2.0% – 2.3%
Plano 1.9% – 2.2%
Allen 2.0% – 2.3%
Wylie 2.1% – 2.4%
Murphy 2.0% – 2.3%
Parker 1.9% – 2.2%
Celina 2.0% – 2.5%
Prosper 1.9% – 2.3%
Melissa 2.1% – 2.5%

Lowest Property Tax Areas in DFW

Some of the lower-tax cities in the DFW area include Flower Mound and Lewisville at roughly 2.08%.

Example

A $400,000 home with a 2.20% tax rate would have an annual property tax bill of approximately $8,800 before exemptions.

The cities buyers most often ask me about are:

Lowest taxes: Prosper, Plano, Frisco, Parker
Middle range: McKinney, Allen, Murphy
Higher taxes: Wylie, Sachse, Mesquite, parts of Garland

06/23/2026

🚨 Thinking About Selling Your Home? STOP! 🚨

Before you spend thousands of dollars on updates, you may want to read this...

Many homeowners believe they need to remodel the kitchen, renovate bathrooms, or replace everything before listing their home. In reality, some of those expensive projects may not give you a good return on investment.

💡 What you may NOT need to fix before selling:
❌ Complete kitchen remodel
❌ Full bathroom renovation
❌ Replacing perfectly functional appliances
❌ Custom upgrades based on your personal taste
❌ Major projects that won't significantly increase value

Instead, focus on:
✅ Cleaning and decluttering
✅ Minor repairs
✅ Fresh neutral paint where needed
✅ Curb appeal
✅ Professional marketing and pricing strategy

The biggest mistake I see sellers make is spending too much money on improvements that buyers don't value enough to pay for.

🏡 If you were selling your home tomorrow, what's the ONE thing you'd want to update first?

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Lam Dinh, Broker Associate
Realty Firm Global - Strategic Realty Group
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06/22/2026

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06/22/2026

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46% of Home Sellers Gave Concessions to Buyers in May, the Highest Share on Record For That Month

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06/21/2026

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🤠 In the early 1900s, Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre was one of the most notorious stretches of real estate in the entire American West — a concentrated district of saloons, gambling dens, dance halls, and hotels that operated with a kind of wild freedom that made the city's respectable citizens deeply uncomfortable and its cowboys deeply grateful. 🍺 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid famously celebrated there after a successful robbery. Luke Short ran his White Elephant Saloon with an iron hand and a ready pistol. And on any given Saturday night the sounds drifting out of Hell's Half Acre could be heard from one end of Fort Worth to the other.
Fort Worth earned its nickname — Cowtown — honestly. Situated at the end of the Chisholm Trail, it was the last civilized stop before the long drive north, and the cowboys who passed through were ready to spend everything they had earned on the trail in the shortest possible time. The saloon keepers, gamblers, and entrepreneurs of Hell's Half Acre were happy to oblige. It was a place of genuine danger — shootings and stabbings were common enough to barely make the newspaper — but it was also a place of extraordinary vitality, a raw concentrated expression of the frontier energy that made Texas what it was. 😢 By the 1910s the reformers had won and Hell's Half Acre was gone, replaced by the respectable city Fort Worth was determined to become.
Did you know Fort Worth's wild history ran this deep before it became the city it is today? What part of old Cowtown history surprises you most? Drop it in the comments and follow along for more hyper-realistic glimpses into the Texas that existed before the history books cleaned it up. 👇✨

06/21/2026

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Mortgage rates fell this week to their lowest level in more than a month, with Freddie Mac reporting the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage declined to 6.47% from 6.52% the previous week. MORE BELOW ⬇️