Prosper Texas: Why So Popular

Why are so many people talking about Prosper Texas as a place to live? One reason is its proximity to Dallas now that the Dallas North Toll road is open from downtown Dallas to Prosper...a 36 mile trek. And, Prosper is now only 10 minutes to Frisco, 20 minutes to McKinney, and 30 minutes to Denton and 35 minutes to Dallas! A new Prosper Awareness campaign to be launched this spring is named "All Roads Lead to Prosper". But proximity is only one reason.

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Town of Prosper Proposed Budget

Click here to review the PDF of the Town of Prosper's Proposed Budget for 2009.

"This budget will raise more total property taxes than last year's budget by $928,567or 23.4%, and of that amount $588,424 is tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year.

TOWN OF PROSPER PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Prosper is a place where everyone matters.

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Dallas Home Prices Drop

slide in U.S. home prices gained speed in August.

And home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth area dipped lower as well.

Home prices fell by a record 16.6 percent in Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller's monthly housing report.

In the D-FW area, prices fell 2.7 percent in August from a year ago in the benchmark home survey.

Out of the 20 markets Case-Shiller tracks, "13 of them had their annual returns worsen from last month's report," S&P's David M. Blitzer said in the survey. "As seen throughout 2008, the Sun Belt markets are being hit the most."

None of the cities Case-Shiller follows had an increase in home prices from last year.

The sharpest declines were in Las Vegas and Phoenix ­ down more than 30 percent.

The D-FW area had the smallest home price decline of all the cities in the report. But the annual dip in home values here grew slightly from July to August.



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Home Buyers Find Variety of Choices at Area Metropolex Neighborhoods

Homebuyers are finding that varied neighborhoods mean attractive choices on homes ready for occupancy and on to-be-built homes across all Centex Homes communities. It is the latest addition to the Prosper real estate offerings. Artesia in Prosper is a master-planned community featuring three distinct neighborhoods – The Falls, The Parks and The Vistas.

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