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Licensed local Realtors serving Kaufman, 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 Kaufman and what it costs to hold.
Kaufman is the county seat, where US 175 and SH 34 meet southeast of Dallas. The town square has anchored the street grid since the 1850s, but the current courthouse is a 1956 building that replaced an 1887 Second Empire structure, so the square reads newer than those in Waxahachie or Weatherford. US 175 runs as a divided highway toward Dallas, and SH 34 carries north to I-20 at Terrell. Past the city limits, tracts shift to septic and rural water, and Kaufman ISD reaches well beyond the city line.
Kaufman sits in Kaufman County, where the combined property tax rate runs about 1.92 percent of market value for the 2025 tax year, ranging 1.75 to 2.25 percent depending on the school district. On a $350,000 home with a homestead exemption that works out to roughly $428 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 Kaufman home actually costs to hold.
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