What Does $380,000 Buy in Carrollton's Original 75006 Core?

A 1,463-square-foot brick ranch built in 1974, on a fifth-acre lot with no HOA, taken down to the studs and rebuilt. That is what 1908 Ann Avenue was, and it went under contract in seven days.

The house is a useful thing to study right now, because the numbers around it contradict each other in an instructive way. Carrollton's citywide median sale price is down. The price buyers are paying per square foot in the older core is up sharply. Both are true, and the gap between them is the whole story of this market in 2026.

The house itself

1908 Ann Avenue sits in Whitlock 04, a Dallas County subdivision platted in the early 1970s off Old Denton Road, south of the President George Bush Turnpike. Three bedrooms, two baths, one story, 1,463 square feet on a 9,017-square-foot lot measuring 75 by 120 feet. Brick, slab, composition roof, two-car attached garage, wood-burning fireplace. No HOA. No municipal utility district.

It listed on July 22, 2026 at $380,000, which works out to $260 per square foot. It went contingent on July 29, seven days later, and closed on August 14 with an FHA buyer and a $5,000 seller contribution. There were no price cuts. The original list price and the final list price were the same number.

What justified $260 a foot on a fifty-two-year-old house was the renovation scope, and the scope was unusually complete. Roof, HVAC system, windows, PVC plumbing, water supply lines, electrical panel, fifty-gallon water heater, and gutters were all replaced. The interior was reworked to an open plan with a new kitchen — shaker cabinetry, quartz counters, stainless appliances — plus two rebuilt baths, luxury vinyl plank through the main living areas, new carpet in the bedrooms, and every interior and exterior door replaced. Outside: a newly poured 208-square-foot rear patio, a 160-square-foot covered side patio, a new wood fence, a new concrete driveway, and new blown-in attic insulation.

The listing also disclosed a repaired foundation with a transferable warranty, and no survey on file. Both are ordinary in 1970s North Texas inventory. Both are things a buyer should be reading closely rather than skipping past.

Why the price per foot is rising while the median price falls

Here is the divergence. In the three months ending June 2026, the Redfin-defined Downtown Carrollton market area posted a median sale price of $349,878, down 4.8% year over year. Over the same window, median price per square foot in that area hit $231 — up 17.3%.

Citywide the picture is calmer. Redfin puts Carrollton's median sale price at $420,000, down 2.6%, with $/sq ft at $218, up 0.9%. Zillow's home value index for Carrollton reads $405,531, down 2.5% over the year, with 467 homes for sale and a median 21 days to pending.

So the older core is seeing per-foot pricing climb roughly nineteen times faster than the city as a whole while its median sale price falls. That is not a contradiction. It means the mix is shifting: buyers are purchasing smaller houses at higher per-foot prices. And when you look at which specific houses cleared quickly and which sat, the sorting mechanism is obvious.

The top of that table is renovated stock at $229 to $260 a foot moving in seven to forty-seven days. The bottom is inventory that needed work, priced at or below the same per-foot range, taking three to five months to find a buyer. Discounting an unrenovated house to the renovated price band does not speed it up. Buyers in this price range are largely financing, and a house that needs a roof and a panel is a house that complicates an appraisal and a loan.

One honest caveat on that table: 1845 Wintergreen Road, which I left out, sold at $314 per square foot after 176 days. It is a 1,019-square-foot house. Kitchens, baths, roofs and systems cost roughly the same regardless of size, so small homes carry a mechanically higher price per foot. It is a size effect, not a counterexample.

The automated estimate missed by eleven percent

Worth noting for anyone in Carrollton watching a Zestimate or Redfin Estimate move: the Redfin Estimate on 1908 Ann Avenue was $337,930 against a $380,000 list. That is a $42,000 gap, about 11%.

The reason is structural. Automated valuation models learn from the surrounding stock, and the surrounding stock on Ann Avenue is unrenovated 1970s ranches — neighboring estimates on the same street run from roughly $336,000 to $363,000 for similar footprints. A model trained on that set has no way to price a gut renovation until several of them have closed and fed back into the data. If you own a substantially updated house in an older Carrollton subdivision, the algorithm is probably behind your actual position, and the direction of the error is predictable.

That cuts the other way too. If your house is original and the block has a few renovated closings in it, the model may be running ahead of what your house would actually bring.

Thinking about selling in Carrollton? A renovated 1970s ranch and an original one on the same street are two different products with two different buyer pools, and the automated number rarely separates them. Request a confidential valuation of your Carrollton home and I will walk you through where your house actually sits in that spread.

What you are buying into beyond the house

Carrollton is one of the more jurisdictionally complicated cities in the Metroplex. It spans Dallas, Denton, and Collin counties. Several independent school districts serve portions of it — Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD covers 1908 Ann Avenue per the MLS record, with Lewisville ISD, Dallas ISD, and Plano ISD serving other parts of the city. District assignment does not follow city limits, and it does not always follow subdivision lines either. Verify it at the specific address before you write an offer.

On taxes, the city has been moving in one direction for over a decade. The FY2026 budget lowered Carrollton's property tax rate from $0.538750 to $0.537500 per $100 of assessed value, the twelfth consecutive annual reduction and the lowest rate since 1989. The senior and disabled exemption rose from $97,000 to $110,000, and the city maintains a 20% homestead exemption. The city portion on an average homestead runs $1,896.

That is the city portion only. 1908 Ann Avenue's total 2025 levy was $6,871 on a $340,190 assessment — about 2.02% all in, once county, school, and college district portions are added. Assessments in that subdivision rose 21.8% between 2024 and 2025, and the tax bill followed at 19.7%. Budget for the whole number, not the city's slice of it.

Transit is the other piece that has changed materially. Downtown Carrollton station now serves both the DART Green Line and the Silver Line, which opened in October 2025 and runs 26 miles connecting Carrollton, Addison, Coppell, Dallas, Grapevine, Plano, and Richardson to DFW International Airport. North of there, at I-35E and the Bush Turnpike, a roughly $1.5 billion transit-oriented development is underway at Trinity Mills Station — 25 acres, the largest publicly owned TOD site in North Texas, with the first residential phase and Esplanade Park already open and Class A office and retail to follow.

None of that guarantees anything about future values, and I would be careful with anyone who tells you it does. What it does mean concretely is that the older 75006 core is no longer purely a car-dependent inner-ring suburb, and the inventory there is fifty years old and largely unrenovated. That combination is what is producing the per-foot numbers above.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the actual sale price of a home in Texas?

You generally cannot look it up. Texas is a non-disclosure state, which means closing prices are not filed in public records. Every figure in this post, including the $380,000 on 1908 Ann Avenue, is the last list price shown in the MLS record, not a confirmed closing price. Licensed agents can see closed-price data through the MLS. Public sites cannot, which is one reason automated estimates in Texas carry wider error bars than they do in disclosure states.

Why did a renovated Carrollton house sell in seven days when others sat for four months?

Condition, not price. In the comp set above, renovated homes cleared at $229 to $260 per square foot in seven to forty-seven days while homes needing work sat 111 to 139 days at similar or lower per-foot pricing. Most buyers in this range are financing, and deferred maintenance on a fifty-year-old house creates appraisal and loan friction that a price cut alone does not solve.

Is my Zestimate accurate for a renovated home in Carrollton?

Often not, and the error tends to run one direction. Automated models learn from surrounding sales, and in a 1970s subdivision most of those sales are original houses. The Redfin Estimate on 1908 Ann Avenue came in at $337,930 against a $380,000 list, an 11% miss. If your house has been substantially updated, expect the algorithm to lag. If it is original on a block with renovated closings, expect the opposite.

How much are property taxes in Carrollton?

The city's own FY2026 rate is $0.537500 per $100 of assessed value, its lowest since 1989, with a 20% homestead exemption. But the city is only one line on the bill. The total 2025 levy on 1908 Ann Avenue was $6,871 against a $340,190 assessment, roughly 2.02% once county, school, and college district rates are included. Run your affordability math on the combined rate.

Should I use a local agent to buy or sell in Carrollton?

What actually matters is whether the agent has transacted in the specific submarket and knows the condition spread. Carrollton is not one market. A renovated ranch in 75006 and an original house three streets over trade to different buyers at different per-foot numbers, and an agent who only pulls citywide medians will misprice both. Ask any agent you interview to show you closed comps segmented by condition, not just by size and zip code. I have spent 22 years and more than $200 million in closed transactions across Dallas, working the range from the Park Cities down through the inner-ring suburbs like Carrollton, Farmers Branch, and Richardson where 1970s stock and renovation quality drive most of the pricing variance. If you want that read on a specific address, start a conversation.

Looking at Carrollton? Whether you are weighing a renovated ranch in 75006 against original inventory, or trying to figure out what your own Carrollton house would actually bring, I am happy to walk through the comps with you. Schedule a private consultation, or browse current Dallas-area listings to see what is on the market. If you are earlier in the process, the buyer's guide and seller's guide cover the Texas-specific mechanics — option period, disclosure, title — that shape every one of these transactions.

I have spent a lot of time in Carrollton's older subdivisions, and the thing that consistently surprises owners is how wide the condition spread has gotten on streets where every house started out the same in 1974.

Paul Blair is the founder and broker of Grey Square, a virtual real estate brokerage representing buyers and sellers across Dallas and Los Angeles. With 22 years in the business and more than $200 million in closed transactions, Paul works the full range of the market, from luxury homes in the Park Cities and Preston Hollow to estates in the Hollywood Hills and across the Westside. Connect with Paul and the Grey Square team at greysq.com. TX TREC #9011505 · CA DRE #01792671.