You can already find the houses. What nobody publishes is what one costs you every month. The tax rate. Whether a MUD or a PID sits on top of it. The HOA. The school district that actually serves the address, which is often not the one on the mailing label.
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211 offerings at the builder's advertised base price, site built only.
2 more offerings sit on leased land, where you buy the house and rent the lot. Those are tracked separately and never priced against a fee simple home.
Two houses. One is $35,000 cheaper. It still costs more to own, because the tax rate on it is over a point higher. That gap does not appear on a builder's sign, on a listing site, or in a monthly payment estimate that assumed a rate instead of looking one up.
Finding that gap is the entire job of this site. It is also why we will not print a tax rate we have not pulled from the appraisal district.
| Monthly | $350,000 at 3.2% | $385,000 at 2.0% |
|---|---|---|
| Principal and interest | $1,991 | $2,190 |
| Property tax | $933 | $642 |
| Total | $2,924 | $2,832 |
Assumes 6.5% on a 30 year fixed, 10% down, taxes only. Excludes insurance, HOA, and any MUD or PID assessment. This is arithmetic on two hypothetical houses, not an offer, not a quote, and not a payment estimate for any community on this site.
You do not have to read all of this. If you want to know which communities are worth your Saturday, what a builder is actually offering this month, or how a quoted payment turns into a real one, ask.
Research compiled August 31, 2026, builder sources first, aggregators only where a builder page could not be reached. Cost of ownership is the part still being filled in. It comes from the Collin, Denton, Grayson and Cooke appraisal districts, MUD district filings and city PID assessment plans, and it goes up by hand.
Until a figure is checked it says so. We would rather tell you we have not looked than hand you a number we made up.
Closest to Frisco and Prosper. You pay for the proximity and the entry price shows it.
Aubrey · Providence Village · Oak Point · Little Elm / Paloma Creek · Pilot Point · Celina · Prosper · Gunter
From $227,999
Anna north through Van Alstyne. Entry price drops the further up the highway you go.
Anna · Melissa · Van Alstyne · Howe
From $219,999
The semiconductor corridor. Lowest prices in the set outside Princeton, and a commute that no longer points at Frisco.
Dorchester · Tioga · Sherman · Denison · Whitesboro
From $213,999
7 cities sit outside those three and have not been assigned a corridor: Sanger, Denton, Princeton, McKinney, Blue Ridge, Farmersville, Gainesville. Princeton is one of them, and it holds the lowest site built entry price in the whole set. We would rather leave the label blank than invent one.
Princeton, TX · Princeton ISD
1 builder. Lennar
Princeton, TX · Princeton ISD
1 builder. Lennar
Princeton, TX · Princeton ISD
1 builder. D.R. Horton
Princeton, TX · Princeton ISD
1 builder. D.R. Horton
Sherman, TX · Sherman ISD
1 builder. Lennar
Howe, TX · Howe ISD
2 builders. Lennar, Starlight Homes
The builder's registration card has one line that decides it. Writing a name on it costs you nothing. The builder budgets for a buyer's agent either way. If you skip it, the builder keeps it.
Our card for your phone and the exact line to write.
A new house is not an inspected house. The municipal inspector confirms code compliance and the superintendent works for the builder. Neither one hands you a report.
Inspections performed by an independent TREC licensed inspector of our choosing, on new construction purchases where North Realty Group is named on the builder's registration card at your first visit and a written buyer representation agreement is in place.