Southlake · Tarrant County · The McDonald Group

Your Southlake Realtor

Licensed local Realtors serving Southlake, honest pricing guidance, professional marketing, and listing options that fit how much help you actually want.

Local, not long-distance

We work Southlake from the upper Northeast Tarrant market.

Southlake is one of the premier markets in the metro, where pricing is exacting, and we bring the local comps to back it up. Since 2019, the McDonald Group has helped buyers and sellers across DFW and North Texas, brokered by Fathom Realty, with our office in McKinney.

Selling in Southlake

Three ways to list. You pick the level of help.

Transaction Only

1%
or $2,000, whichever is greater

Already have your buyer, or just need a licensed pro to carry the deal from contract to close? This is the lean option.

  • Contract preparation on TREC-promulgated forms
  • Offer presentation and negotiation
  • Title, escrow, and lender coordination
  • Deadline and option-period tracking
  • Closing day handled start to finish
Start With Transaction Only

Full Service

3%
of the sales price

The works. We make the home look its best, market it everywhere, and stay hands-on through closing.

  • Everything in Remote Listing
  • Professional photography
  • Drone / aerial photos
  • 3D floor plan and virtual tour
  • Staging and prep consultation
  • In-person showings and open houses
  • Featured social + video marketing
Start With Full Service

Every tier, including Transaction Only, comes with a licensed Texas agent's full statutory duties: we present every offer, answer your questions, and keep you informed of material information throughout the sale.

Commissions and fees are not set by law and are fully negotiable. The fees above are The McDonald Group's standard listing tiers; final terms are set in your written listing agreement. Buyer's agent compensation, if any, is separate and discussed before you list.

Buying in Southlake

House hunting here? We've got you.

First home, upgrade, or investment, we guide Southlake buyers through search, offer strategy, financing connections, and closing. Browse North Texas listings or reach out below and tell us what you're looking for.

Need to sell a property as-is instead? Get a cash offer on your Southlake house →

The ground here

What is Southlake, TX like?

Corridors, build era, and taxing boundaries shape what you can buy in Southlake and what it costs to hold.

Southlake runs along the SH 114 corridor between Grapevine Lake and the Westlake line, north of DFW Airport. Southlake Town Square functions as a purpose-built downtown rather than a historic one, since the city had no significant commercial core before it. Zoning favored large residential lots early and most construction dates from the 1990s onward, so the stock is newer and lower in density than the mid-cities to the south. Bob Jones Park and its nature center occupy lake shoreline at the north end, and Carroll ISD covers most addresses with Keller, Grapevine-Colleyville and Northwest ISD taking edges.

County
Tarrant County, Texas
Metro
DFW
Carrying cost

What are property taxes in Southlake, TX?

Southlake sits in Tarrant County, where the combined property tax rate runs about 2.06 percent of market value for the 2025 tax year, ranging 1.85 to 2.40 percent depending on the school district. On a $350,000 home with a homestead exemption that works out to roughly $480 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.

2.06%
Tarrant County typical
$480/mo
On a $350,000 home, with homestead
1.04%
School district share

Taxes and insurance are a large share of a monthly payment in Texas, so a national mortgage estimate will understate what a Southlake home actually costs to hold.

Talk to a Southlake agent

Your goals,
our mission.

Tell us what you're trying to do in Southlake. A real person reviews every submission, usually same day.

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Nearby

We also serve Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, Coppell , and the rest of the metro. All DFW cities we serve →