Carrollton/West Plano Custom Home (Dallas, Irving: low income, apartments, neighborhood)

[ChristieP]

Originally Posted by EDS_

FWIIW first time window treatments are usually left to the first buyer.

The house was built in 2018. It's not new.

[DFW_FTW]

The DFW housing market is NOT sustainable (Dallas, Allen: sales, rental market)

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by ChristieP

The house was built in 2018. It's not new.

So the next owner gets to pick.

[20Hope20]

It went contingent while they we're contemplating.

By the way, if you open up house facts in the listing, electric shades and plantation shutters are mentioned and you can see some in few pics as well.

Its an ultra modern custom home, not for typical Texas mass builder style nor average buyer's taste. It doesn't feel homey to me. I would rather live in an older homey home.

[Aggielina]

Over 4,000 SF and it only has 3 bedrooms? Hard pass. Good thing I can't afford it anyway!

[Leonard123]

Is that house directly up against Marsh Lane? All the people driving by can take a peek inside.

I hope they have laminated glass on those windows.

For $2 million, wouldn't you rather have a brand new home or nicely updated existing home in Irvine, CA?

[NP78]

Originally Posted by Leonard123

Is that house directly up against Marsh Lane? All the people driving by can take a peek inside.


For $2 million, wouldn't you rather have a brand new home or nicely updated existing home in Irvine, CA?

Hard Pass on Irvine. No thanks.

Same for this house.

[ilovepizza1975]

Originally Posted by Xalistiq

I don’t have any negative comments about this house in terms of style, finish outs, or build quality. However, that location at that price is unfathomable.

Carrollton was still a nice-ish, largely middle class city twenty years ago, especially the Hebron area close to Prestonwood Church. Today, Carrollton is further along the linear decline curve (demographic/economic), that’s already come for west Plano, Frisco, Allen, and McKinney.

At this rate, I wouldn’t spend $2MM on any home in Collin County, knowing where the demographic trends are headed.

I'm about to sell my west Plano house (due to divorce) and I am planning to buy again in Plano (in a cheaper neighborhood) next year.

I'm intrigued...what "demographic trends"?

[CMC_TX]

Take a drive through Carrollton, and you’ll see that for the most part, it is on a decline. A lot of the housing stock was solid middle-class homes, and in the 80s / 90s it was a very clean and nice suburb.

With a few exceptions, as most of those neighborhoods have aged, there has not been as much gentrification as you see in say, Richardson.

You know the saying never buy the most expensive house on the block, well, in the case of this, it would be “never buy the most expensive house in the city.” 3x + the average city home price is questionable, particularly as the infrastructure and homes continue to age and the area declines further.

As for the house itself, the finishes are extremely taste-specific. This limits the future buyer pool, and these finishes will look dated quickly, meaning costly remodel costs down the line on a very specific architecture that can be polarizing.

Ultimately, there are just so many amazing options in that price point in more appealing areas, so why go with this?

[tmtex]

eeww , that does look like the lobby of a hotel room