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Jason Northcutt
Veteran | REALTOR® | Team Leader
As the Founder and Team Leader of North Realty Group and North 40 Land & Ranch, Jason has built a highly recognized team with a service-first approach, leveraging cutting-edge marketing, data-driven insights, and AI-enhanced strategies to deliver unmatched results for buyers, sellers, and investors.
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Things to Do in DFW This Weekend: October 23-25, 2026
Six verified picks for October 23-25: Sick New World's Texas debut at Texas Motor Speedway, Gary Allan at Billy Bob's, Boo at the Zoo, two McKinney festivals, and 100,000 pumpkins at the Dallas Arboretum
Things to Do in DFW This Weekend: October 16-18, 2026
Six picks across North Texas, from Oktoberfest Southlake's 25th anniversary to the State Fair's final weekend and two free McKinney events.
Things to Do in DFW This Weekend: October 9-11, 2026
Your weekend, planned. Six picks across North Texas, from a McKinney car festival to a Grand Prairie food festival with 40-plus chefs.
Celina Annexation Adds 578 Acres With No Build Timeline
Celina annexed 578 acres and zoned 528 of them as PD No. 166. The city confirmed no build deadline exists. What the entitlement allows, and why nobody is breaking ground.
Texas Plat Exemption: The 10-Acre Rule
A seller with 100 acres and a five-acre buyer runs into the same wall every time. Acreage is only half the test, and the county may not use the number in the statute.
Texas Land 1031 Exchange: When Working the Dirt Costs You
On 200 acres, that is $3.2 million. Federal capital gains tax and the net investment income tax can take a meaningful share of it at closing. A Texas land 1031 exchange defers that bill.
Zoning Outside City Limits: What Texas Landowners Face
Texas counties cannot zone, and most land buyers stop reading there. That is the mistake. HB 24 rewrote the protest rules in September 2025, corridor overlays can no longer be protested at all, and the ETJ exit is still moving through federal court. Here is what zoning outside city limits actually means for a tract in a growth corridor.
McKinney Small Lot Zoning Request Tabled on Ridge Road
Skorburg wants 134 homes on 25 acres of Ridge Road frontage. Council tabled it indefinitely. The dispute is not density. It is who controls the standards Senate Bill 15 left alone.
Prosper Texas Data Center Vote: Project Tomahawk Explained
Residents and landowners deserve a plain accounting before the debate hardens into camps. This article takes no position; it lays out the record as it stands today.
Celina Water Supply: What It Means for Land in the Corridor
Three years of city operating data, a subscription that guarantees less than peak demand, and a landscape rewrite heading to Council this fall.
Lake Ralph Hall Starts Filling: Fannin County Land Impact
Lake Ralph Hall began filling in July 2026 in Fannin County. Water reaches Celina across 2027 and 2028, not this year.
McKinney MF36 Zoning: 600 Apartments Across My Street
Many times we have had to stop in the middle of the road to the let the the baby ducks and geese walk across the road