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Move-in ready near Dallas’ White Rock Lake costs less than $250,000

You think you can’t get move-in ready in Dallas for less than $250,000? Think again. The house at 11207 Sinclair Ave., near Garland and Jupiter roads, has all the updates you require.

This three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath traditional was built in 1955. It has 1,293 square feet, an open floorplan, modern kitchen, and original hardwood floors. Essential updates include a newish air conditioner, furnace, water heater, roof, and fence.

Less essential but more fun updates include refaced cabinets with new pulls, granite countertops, glass tile backsplash, breakfast bar, and new tile floor in the kitchen; bathrooms have marble floors. Plus the place got some professional landscaping, and there’s a 238-square-foot bonus room not listed in the square footage.

The home is located in the Lake and Garden District’s Lochwood neighborhood, one of the loveliest in East Dallas, with greenbelts, mature trees, hiking trails, and creeks. The property also is within walking distance of the 12.3-acre Lochwood Park, with baseball field and basketball court, pavilion with picnic tables, playground, swimming pool, tennis court, and trails.

The list price is $247,000, marketed by Meg Skinner of Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate. That’s $190 per square foot — ambitious when you consider the average of nine active area comps is $133 — but you don’t have to do a thing but move in. That might be priceless.

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A version of this story originally was published on Candy’s Dirt.

This Lochwood home is listed for $247,000.

Photo courtesy of Dave Perry Miller Real Estate

This Lochwood home is listed for $247,000.

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Grand Prairie expands to the south with new master-planned community

Rendering courtesy of Provident

Goodland Grand Prairie

The City of Grand Prairie is growing fast and expanding to make way for a new master-planned development south of US Highway 287 and along Tollway 360, in Ellis and Johnson counties.

The community development, called Goodland, is the result of Grand Prairie’s recent 1,500-acre annexation extending its southern border toward Mansfield. Overall, with the added land, Goodland will be a 5,000-acre site featuring 15,000 residences including townhomes, custom homes, and gated communities for 50,000 residents.

According to a release, it will be a “city within a city” and a 45-minute drive from Dallas-Fort Worth. Beyond housing, there will be shops, restaurants, schools, public and private event venues, regional sports fields and complexes, dance halls, churches, trail systems, city parks, ponds, and preserved green spaces.

“This is a significant step in our city’s development,” says Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen in a statement. “Unlike many of our neighboring cities, we have the unique advantage of new development opportunities to our south that will drive the growth and prosperity of our city. We recognized the opportunity and took decisive action.”

Leading the development is Provident, a Dallas-based real estate firm that has created other master-planned communities across Dallas-Fort Worth, such as Preston Hollow Village and Hillstead in Collin County. Provident has plans to work nature into the space design with more than 1,600 acres of creek corridors and floodplain land.

Plans are ongoing for a centralized mixed-use walkable Town Center, complete with civic buildings and other commercial development. Further south on the property near Highway 67, light industrial uses and other private employment campuses are already underway, projects that will contribute vital tax dollars for city growth and future expansions.

“This level of placemaking is quite rare, and certainly not easy to execute, especially in a brand-new community," says Provident Managing Director Rylan Yowell in a statement. "We are committed to a long-term vision with a desire to be good stewards of the land."

A new four-lane road called Goodland Parkway will link Goodland to Grand Prairie at Tollway 360 and US Highway 287. It's set to open by December 2025.

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