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A 1960s split-level and a new three-story at CityLine get the same honest read from me.

Richardson Heights to Canyon Creek: the 1950s-70s streets

The city grew up fast in the 1950s, and the streets still show it. Richardson Heights carries classic mid-century ranches, most built in the 1950s and 60s, brick exteriors and low-pitched roofs. On the west side, Buckingham, Highland Terrace, and Greenwood Hills run to 1960s and 70s ranches and split-levels under mature trees, with Mark Twain and the J.J. Pearce area close by. Canyon Creek, up around the country club, rounds out the mid-century map.

The spread between those pockets is real money. Mark Twain sales mostly land between the low $300s and the low $400s. Canyon Creek starts around $400K and climbs well past that for bigger updated houses near the club. Citywide, mid-2026 sales put the median roughly in the $460s to mid $470s, with the typical listing taking about two months to sell.

State Farm, the Telecom Corridor, and four Red Line stations

The Richardson Chamber trademarked the name Telecom Corridor back in 1992, when Nortel, Fujitsu, Ericsson, and MCI anchored the job base. The names changed, the jobs didn't. AT&T and Cisco operate here today, and State Farm put roughly 8,000 workers at its CityLine campus, part of a $1.5 billion mixed-use development with 40-plus restaurants and shops.

Getting around is the other half of the demand story. Four DART stations on the Red and Orange lines sit inside the city: Spring Valley, Arapaho Center, Galatyn Park, and CityLine/Bush. US-75 runs straight through, about 15 minutes to downtown Dallas, with the Bush Turnpike across the north end and I-635 three miles south.

One city, two county tax bills, and 32 new homes at CityLine

The city limits cross a county line, and it hits your tax bill. Roughly speaking, the north end sits in Collin County and pairs with Plano ISD, at a combined rate around $1.81 per $100 of value. The Dallas County side pairs with Richardson ISD at roughly $2.17. On a $450K house that gap runs around $1,600 a year, so I check the parcel on every home before you write an offer.

New construction here is infill, not big subdivisions. The Residences at CityLine is the one named community, 32 three-story homes from Centre Living Homes, 2,750 to 3,300 square feet, priced from around $550K. Beyond that, expect scattered lot-by-lot builds.

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