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Jason Northcutt
Veteran | REALTOR® | Team Leader
As the Founder and Team Leader of North Realty Group and North 40 Land & Ranch, Jason has built a highly recognized team with a service-first approach, leveraging cutting-edge marketing, data-driven insights, and AI-enhanced strategies to deliver unmatched results for buyers, sellers, and investors.
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Texas Plat Exemption: The 10-Acre Rule
A seller with 100 acres and a five-acre buyer runs into the same wall every time. Acreage is only half the test, and the county may not use the number in the statute.
Texas Land 1031 Exchange: When Working the Dirt Costs You
On 200 acres, that is $3.2 million. Federal capital gains tax and the net investment income tax can take a meaningful share of it at closing. A Texas land 1031 exchange defers that bill.
Zoning Outside City Limits: What Texas Landowners Face
Texas counties cannot zone, and most land buyers stop reading there. That is the mistake. HB 24 rewrote the protest rules in September 2025, corridor overlays can no longer be protested at all, and the ETJ exit is still moving through federal court. Here is what zoning outside city limits actually means for a tract in a growth corridor.
McKinney Small Lot Zoning Request Tabled on Ridge Road
Skorburg wants 134 homes on 25 acres of Ridge Road frontage. Council tabled it indefinitely. The dispute is not density. It is who controls the standards Senate Bill 15 left alone.
Prosper Texas Data Center Vote: Project Tomahawk Explained
Residents and landowners deserve a plain accounting before the debate hardens into camps. This article takes no position; it lays out the record as it stands today.
Celina Water Supply: What It Means for Land in the Corridor
Three years of city operating data, a subscription that guarantees less than peak demand, and a landscape rewrite heading to Council this fall.
Lake Ralph Hall Starts Filling: Fannin County Land Impact
Lake Ralph Hall began filling in July 2026 in Fannin County. Water reaches Celina across 2027 and 2028, not this year.
McKinney MF36 Zoning: 600 Apartments Across My Street
Many times we have had to stop in the middle of the road to the let the the baby ducks and geese walk across the road
Cole Ranch: 4,365 Homes Break Ground in Denton
Houston-based Johnson Development is leading the roughly $5 billion project on land the Cole family has held since the 1930s.
Texas Data Center Land: Why 66 Acres Sold for $76.5M
The real asset in this Texas data center land deal is 164 megawatts of grid interconnection that Plug Power had already secured for a green hydrogen plant it never built.
LiteOn McKinney, a $919 million campus, isn't an AI Data Center. Here's What It Is
Call it what it is. The LiteOn McKinney project, a $919 million campus and one of the largest private investments…
North Texas Foreclosures Climb as Distressed Inventory Opens a Window for Buyers
More than 2,700 properties across Collin, Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties entered foreclosure in the first four months of 2026,…