Homes for sale in Plano, TX, sent to you privately

A portal sorts Plano homes for sale by price and by newest. If you're moving here, neither is the sort you need. You need homes sorted by the drive to your office, the school district and the county, and portals can't do that, because in Plano none of the three follows a ZIP code. Kings Ridge, for example, has a Plano address, Denton County taxes and Lewisville ISD schools.

So this site doesn't run a listings feed. You send your criteria once; Linda sends back the homes from the North Texas MLS that fit, new ones as they list, plus the ones that have sat long enough to negotiate.

What the Plano MLS search covers

Budget, school district, the county side (Collin or Denton), the drive to a campus or rail station, lot size, HOA or no HOA, and the age of the house. Draw the search around your new office's address, not a ZIP: two homes in the same ZIP can sit on opposite sides of the tollway.

Plano homes for sale that have sat on the market

These are the listings a portal buries and the ones worth asking for: homes past 60 days, with a price cut, or back after a failed contract. Across the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, 34% of listings have cut their price. A seller who has already cut is a seller you can ask for a closing-cost credit, an inspection repair or a rate buydown.

Touring Plano homes from out of state

Video tours on FaceTime can show what listing photos skip: the street, the backyard fence, the roof line, the view from the kitchen window. When the list is down to two or three homes, one short trip to see them in person is the plan.

What happens after you send your Plano home search

1. You fill in the form: budget, timing and where you'll work.
2. You get a reply by phone or email to confirm the details and the written buyer agreement Texas requires before any showing.
3. Matching homes arrive as they list, with price history and days on market, and you pick which to tour by video or in person.

Your budget picks the side of Plano before it picks the house. Prices step down from west to east, from $738,271 in ZIP 75093 to $362,198 in 75074 (Zillow's typical values, September 2026, all home types). This year's drop went the other way: deepest in the east, smallest in the west.

Plano homes for sale under $450,000

Start in 75074 on the east side and 75023 in the center: older ranch houses, many near the Red, Orange and Silver line stations. Values in 75074 fell 4.48% this year, the most in the city, which gives you the most room on price. The catch is age, so the inspection matters more here than anywhere. Our East Plano neighborhood guide covers the streets.

Plano homes for sale from $450,000 to $650,000

Central Plano and the north-central subdivisions, plus townhomes and smaller houses near Legacy (75024 is $628,592). For a Legacy job, this band buys the shortest drive for the money. The catch: near Legacy, the top of this band often buys a townhome or a smaller house on a smaller lot, so decide early whether the yard or the drive matters more.

Plano homes for sale over $700,000

ZIP 75093 and named neighborhoods such as Deerfield, Kings Ridge, Lakeside on Preston and Willow Bend. These held their value best: Willow Bend rose 0.88% while the city fell. The catch is that rising values give sellers less reason to cut, so expect less room than on the east side.

This is a better year to buy than the last few. The figures below are for the whole Dallas-Fort Worth metro at all price points, so read them as the direction of the market, not Plano's own numbers.

Dallas metro days to pending and price cuts

Metro homes take 64 days to go pending, the same as a year earlier, and inventory is 36,771 against 38,268 a year ago. That means sellers aren't short of competition. If a home has passed 60 days without an offer, start lower.

Sale-to-list ratio and Plano offers

Metro homes sold at 98.0% of list price in August 2026, a typical discount of about 2%, or roughly $10,000 on a $497,714 Plano home. With Freddie Mac's 30-year average at 7.4%, ask whether a seller credit toward a rate buydown is worth more to you than the same amount off the price.

Plano property tax on the homes you shortlist

Price the tax into every offer. The 2026 adopted rates for a Plano ISD home in Collin County total $1.702984 per $100 before exemptions, about $6,476 a year on a $497,714 home once you file the homestead. The Plano property tax calculator runs any list price.

One rule changed this year, and it shapes your first conversation with any agent.

Texas written buyer agreement (since January 1, 2026)

Under Section 1101.563 of the Texas Real Estate License Act, an agent working with a buyer must have a written agreement in place before showing any residential property. The Texas Real Estate Commission says it must state the services, its end date, whether it's exclusive, whether the agent represents you, and how much the agent is paid and how that's set. It must also say, in conspicuous language, that broker compensation is not set by law and is fully negotiable. Read it before you sign and ask about anything you don't follow.

TREC contract, option period and earnest money

Plano offers are written on the TREC One to Four Family Residential Contract. You pay an option fee for a set number of days to inspect and walk away, and earnest money goes to the title company. Both are negotiated deal by deal; our Plano closing costs guide explains them, along with title insurance and who usually pays for what.

Collin County or Denton County homes for sale

Most Plano homes are in Collin County, but the far-west edge is Denton County: Kings Ridge's HOA calls it Plano's westernmost neighborhood. The county changes the appraisal district and part of the tax bill, so check it on the listing's parcel record and on our map of Plano's county line.

These are verbatim excerpts from reviews published on the Bale Real Estate Group website. They're Bale Real Estate Group team reviews, and the team's site reports $65M+ in residential sales volume and 110+ transactions over the past 48 months, also team figures.

Jerry G., relocated from California to North Texas

"She tirelessly guided us through an overwhelming number of possibilities, walking us through MLS listings from afar, conducting FaceTime tours, arranging virtual walk-throughs, offering candid advice, and helping us make sense of a fast-moving market while we were hundreds of miles away."

Kenny S., relocated from Chicago to Dallas

"They worked with us for almost two years as we prepared for our move from Chicago to Dallas. Linda was extremely responsive, thorough, knowledgeable and helpful!"

Vishal T., bought new construction in Prosper

"When our pre-foundation inspection turned up with some issues, she went straight to the builder and kept pressure on so we weren't left negotiating alone. She stayed with us from first tours through closing."

Reviewed by Linda Bale, Texas license #700984-SA, on October 29, 2026. General information, not legal or tax advice. Our research process.