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Licensed local Realtors serving Murphy, honest pricing guidance, professional marketing, and listing options that fit how much help you actually want.
Licensed local Realtors serving Murphy, 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 Murphy and what it costs to hold.
Murphy covers about 5.7 square miles on FM 544 between Plano and Wylie, just north of the President George Bush Turnpike. The turnpike's opening around 2000 triggered the city's build-out; before that it was farmland, and one- to five-acre lots platted in the 1980s now sit beside the late-1990s and 2000s subdivisions that filled the rest. Ringed by Plano, Richardson, Sachse, Wylie, and Parker, Murphy has no room to annex and is effectively finished. Plano ISD and Wylie ISD each serve parts of the city.
Murphy 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 Murphy home actually costs to hold.
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