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Griffith Avenue, from Tudor to Craftsman

Most towns east of Dallas got their housing stock after 2005. Terrell was building houses in the 1880s. The Griffith Avenue corridor runs from English Tudor to Craftsman, and the 1883 Matthew Cartwright House at 505 Griffith is on the National Register. These are genuinely old homes, which means old-home questions. Foundations, wiring, what's been updated and what hasn't. I walk buyers through all of it before they fall in love with a porch.

Downtown still has its brick sidewalks and turn-of-the-century storefronts, and the No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum tells a story most people don't expect out here. More than 2,200 RAF and American cadets trained in Terrell during World War II. This is a town with a real past, and it shows in the housing stock.

Northspur, Creekside Estates, and the $3 billion Terra Nova plan

The new growth ring is just as real. Northspur is a 700-acre master-planned community with 1,527 homes planned, D.R. Horton and Impression Homes building from the $200s, floorplans starting around 1,604 square feet on 40, 50, and 70 foot lots, with a pool, trails, and parks. LGI's Creekside Estates adds another 141 lots.

Then there's Terra Nova, a $3 billion master-planned development the city council has approved, roughly 3,600 single-family homes plus multifamily, built out over about two decades. It is planned, not built. I wouldn't buy today based on renderings, but it tells you which direction this market is headed.

What the high $200s buys, and what acreage costs

As of mid-2026, most Terrell sales land in the high $200s, with list prices often running higher. That's still one of the easier entries in Kaufman County. Outside the city limits, houses with land are common, roughly 180 on the market at a time, with land averaging around $85K an acre. A new slab in Northspur or five acres with a shop, the money stretches further here either way.

The trade-off: 30 to 35 minutes on US-80 or I-20

Dallas sits about 32 miles west, call it 30 to 35 minutes on US-80 or I-20 outside rush hour. That drive is the price of the affordability. On the retail side, The Shops at Terrell, the outlet center with around 30 stores, anchors one end of town and historic downtown covers the other. If a daily Dallas commute would wear you down, I'll say so before you sign anything.

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