Dallas-Fort Worth Luxury Real Estate & Dallas Relocation Blog By Top Dallas Real Estate Agent

How DFW Builder Contracts Differ From One Another Do all home builders in Texas use the same contract? No. Texas resale transactions use a promulgated TREC form, so the document is the same regardless of who is selling. New construction does not work that way. Each builder drafts its own purchase agreement, and those documents differ from one another on deposits, price adjustment, completion timing, change orders, warranty administration, incentive conditions and dispute reso

Who Represents You at a Texas Model Home? SB 1968 and the Builder Sales Office Does the person in a Texas model home represent the buyer? No. The representative in a builder's sales office works for the builder. Texas Senate Bill 1968, effective January 1, 2026, repealed subagency and requires a license holder to have a written agreement with a buyer before showing residential property. But a builder's own employee may be exempt from real estate licensing entirely, so the rul

Choosing a Real Estate Agent for an Executive Relocation to Dallas Who chooses the real estate agent in a corporate relocation to Dallas? Usually the transferee, but not always freely. When an employer engages a relocation management company, the RMC ordinarily presents a choice of agents from its own network, and those agents pay the RMC a referral fee out of their commission. A transferee can generally still select an agent outside that network, but accepting relocation ben

DFW New Construction: Which City, Which County, Which District Is a DFW master-planned community actually inside the city it is named after? Often not. Several of the largest new construction communities in Dallas-Fort Worth sit in a city's extraterritorial jurisdiction rather than inside its limits, and a number are served by a school district other than the one matching the mailing address. Whether a community carries a MUD or a PID is largely a consequence of that jurisdic