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Licensed local Realtors serving Allen, honest pricing guidance, professional marketing, and listing options that fit how much help you actually want.
Corridors, build era, and taxing boundaries shape what you can buy in Allen and what it costs to hold.
US 75 bisects Allen, and the Sam Rayburn Tollway runs along its western edge about 20 miles north of Dallas. The Houston and Texas Central Railway founded the town in 1872, but most of the housing stock was built from the 1980s through the 2000s. Eagle Stadium, the Credit Union of Texas Event Center, and the Watters Creek mixed-use district are the landmarks here. Ringed by Plano, McKinney, Fairview, Lucas, and Parker, Allen has little room to expand, and addresses fall in Allen, Lovejoy, McKinney, or Plano ISD.
Allen sits in Collin County, where the combined property tax rate runs about 1.70 percent of market value for the 2025 tax year, ranging 1.55 to 2.30 percent depending on the school district. On a $350,000 home with a homestead exemption that works out to roughly $377 a month. The Texas homestead exemption reduces only the school district portion, not the county or city portion, which is the detail most online estimates miss.
Taxes and insurance are a large share of a monthly payment in Texas, so a national mortgage estimate will understate what a Allen home actually costs to hold.
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