Raw land, infill lots and teardowns in Collin County, Texas, bought for cash by a builder who builds luxury homes here. Written offer, or our questions, within one business day.
Including Frisco, Prosper, McKinney, Celina, Allen, Fairview, Lucas, Melissa.
ReStar data: population 2024, net migration year to July 2025, typical single-family value (Zillow ZHVI) August 2026, household income ACS 2024, single-family permits July 2026.
We buy land for cash across Collin County, Texas: raw acreage, infill lots and teardowns in Frisco, Prosper, McKinney, Celina and the rest of the county. Send the address or parcel number and you get a written offer, or our questions, within one business day. There is no commission, we cover standard closing costs and we pay for our own survey and soil work. What your land is worth depends mostly on the ZIP it is in and how buildable it is, and both are laid out below.
One difference from most cash land buyers you will find for Collin County: they buy vacant land to resell it, often to someone like us. We build on it, so we price your acreage or lot from the home that will stand on it, not from a resale discount.
The biggest of our markets by a wide margin: more than 1.16 million people, about 35,900 more arriving than leaving in a single year, and 880 single-family permits issued in July 2026 alone. Growth has pushed north up the Dallas North Tollway and US-75 toward Celina, Prosper and Melissa.
Land is worth what the homes built on it can sell for, less what it costs to build them. So the quickest honest read on land value in Collin County is the value of the homes around it, ZIP by ZIP. Across the 28 ZIP codes centered in the county, the typical single-family home ranges from $283k in 75407 (Princeton) to $742k in 75093 (Plano). The fastest-rising over the last year is 75424 (Blue Ridge), at +1.0%.
The last column is a benchmark, not an offer. The National Association of Home Builders' 2024 cost survey found the finished lot averaged 13.7% of a new home's sales price nationally. Apply that share to the typical home in each ZIP and you get a rough ceiling on what a builder budgets for a finished lot there, one that already has road access, utilities and approvals. Raw land sells below it by whatever it costs to get there, which is why a parcel with sewer at the road and a parcel that needs a septic system can draw very different offers in the same ZIP.
| Town | ZIP | Typical home | 1-yr | 5-yr | Finished-lot benchmark (13.7%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plano | 75093 | $742k | -1.6% | +27.8% | $102k |
| Prosper | 75078 | $733k | -5.9% | +25.2% | $100k |
| Frisco | 75034 | $662k | -1.7% | +24.1% | $91k |
| Allen | 75013 | $645k | -4.0% | +23.8% | $88k |
| Dallas | 75252 | $639k | -1.5% | +23.2% | $88k |
| Frisco | 75035 | $627k | -6.1% | +24.5% | $86k |
| Plano | 75024 | $622k | -2.9% | +24.3% | $85k |
| Plano | 75094 | $563k | -4.2% | +21.4% | $77k |
| Plano | 75025 | $542k | -4.3% | +21.9% | $74k |
| Richardson | 75082 | $538k | -3.5% | +19.1% | $74k |
| Celina | 75009 | $516k | -9.2% | +18.3% | $71k |
| McKinney | 75072 | $510k | -5.2% | +18.8% | $70k |
| Dallas | 75287 | $481k | -3.0% | +17.0% | $66k |
| McKinney | 75071 | $474k | -6.1% | +16.7% | $65k |
| McKinney | 75070 | $470k | -5.5% | +16.8% | $64k |
| Plano | 75075 | $454k | -3.7% | +17.1% | $62k |
| Allen | 75002 | $451k | -5.8% | +19.3% | $62k |
| Blue Ridge | 75424 | $441k | +1.0% | +28.3% | $60k |
| Melissa | 75454 | $423k | -5.8% | +14.7% | $58k |
| Wylie | 75098 | $415k | -5.5% | +14.8% | $57k |
| McKinney | 75069 | $414k | -4.2% | +13.8% | $57k |
| Plano | 75023 | $412k | -3.6% | +16.2% | $56k |
| Plano | 75074 | $364k | -5.0% | +15.1% | $50k |
| Lavon | 75166 | $341k | -7.7% | +1.3% | $47k |
| Anna | 75409 | $336k | -7.0% | +8.9% | $46k |
| Nevada | 75173 | $334k | -5.2% | +16.3% | $46k |
| Farmersville | 75442 | $334k | -4.1% | +13.7% | $46k |
| Princeton | 75407 | $283k | -10.2% | +1.3% | $39k |
ReStar platform data: Zillow Home Value Index, single-family, 2026-08-31. ZIPs assigned to the county by their center point; a ZIP that straddles a county line is listed where most of it sits. Town is the USPS place name.
Acreage in the unincorporated north and east of the county around Lucas, Fairview and the edges of Celina and Prosper, where large-lot custom homes still make sense, plus one-acre-plus lots inside the established estate neighborhoods.
Our full buy box is on the sell my land page. It is loose on purpose: send the parcel even if it misses a line, and we will tell you straight if it is a pass.
Two parcels the same size, a mile apart, can be worth very different amounts because of rules that never show up in a listing. These are the ones we check first in Collin County.
A lot of Collin County land sits in a city's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ): outside the city limits but inside its reach for subdivision rules. Since September 1, 2023, Texas Senate Bill 2038 lets a landowner petition to be released from an ETJ, and a city that misses its deadline releases the land anyway. Whether a parcel is in an ETJ, and which city's, changes who approves a lot split, so it is one of the first things we check.
Source: Texas SB 2038 (88th Legislature)
Collin County has no zoning in its unincorporated area. Land division there follows the Collin County Subdivision Regulations (Local Government Code Ch. 232), and inside a city's ETJ the city may apply its own subdivision rules. For septic, a lot divided in 2008 or later must start with 1 usable acre (1.5 acres, 1 usable, with a water well), and a lot made smaller after the applicable dates cannot get an OSSF.
Source: collincountytx.gov
Qualifying land is appraised on its agricultural productivity value instead of market value; it generally must have been in agricultural or timber use for at least five of the past seven years. If the use changes to a non-agricultural use, a rollback tax is imposed equal to the difference between the taxes paid on the productivity value and the taxes that would have been paid on market value for each of the three years before the year of the change (Tax Code 23.55(a)). For a change of use on or after June 15, 2021, no interest is added to 1-d-1 rollback: HB 3833 deleted the former 5% interest (the interest the Comptroller mentions applies to the separate 1-d program). A sale alone is not the trigger: the Comptroller says the property owner who changes the use owes the rollback, and a tax lien attaches to the land on the date of the change. Who bears it when the buyer will develop is negotiated in the purchase contract.
If your land is taxed at a farm or open-space value, raise it at the start. Who pays any rollback is a term of the contract, and it belongs in the price conversation, not at the closing table.
Source: comptroller.texas.gov · tcss.legis.texas.gov
Texas has no assessment ratio: taxing units generally tax property at its current market value as appraised by the county appraisal district, with constitutional exceptions such as productivity (agricultural/timber) valuation.
Source: comptroller.texas.gov
Septic minimum lot size: lots divided between 1983 and 2008 need at least 1 acre (1.5 acres with a water well); lots divided in 2008 or later need 1 usable acre (1.5 acres, 1 usable, with a well). 'Usable' excludes most easements and ponds. (collincountytx.gov)
Collin County applies OSSF rules stricter than the state's (Court Order 2008-187-03-11), and it issues no OSSF or culvert permit for a lot in a subdivision whose plat has not been approved. (collincountytx.gov)
Any tract divided into two or more parts in unincorporated Collin County must follow the county Subdivision Regulations unless exempt under Local Government Code Ch. 232, and every new parcel must front a public road or an existing improved private road with proper access easements. (collincountytx.gov)
Cities may extend their subdivision regulations into their ETJ, so new construction there should be checked with the city as well as the county. (collincountytx.gov)
We start from the house we would build and work backward. Take a home that would sell at the county's typical value of $477,000. At the national 13.7% lot share, the finished lot behind it is budgeted at about $65k. If the land already has a paved road, water and sewer or an approved septic site, most of that budget can go to the land. If a driveway has to be cut, power brought in and a septic system engineered, those costs come out first, and so does the time it takes to get approvals. That is the whole reason two owners in the same ZIP can get very different numbers, and why we would rather tell you which line is costing you than just quote a figure.
The full method, with the arithmetic and what happens when build costs move, is in how much is my land worth. If you want to take the unknowns off the table before you sell to anyone, start with is my land buildable.
Tell us where it is. We reply within one business day with a written offer or the questions we need answered, and we cover standard closing costs.
No obligation. We reply within one business day with a written offer or the questions we need answered. We call or email; we do not text.
Texas closings are typically handled by a title company escrow officer. The Texas Department of Insurance sets title premium rates, the premium covers the title search, examination and closing, and the buyer and seller may negotiate who pays it. An attorney is not required, though either party may bring one to the closing.
| Cost | Selling to us | Listing the land |
|---|---|---|
| Agent commission | None | Negotiated with your agent; land listings often carry a higher percentage than houses |
| Standard closing costs | We cover them | Seller's share per local custom and the contract |
| Deed transfer or recording tax | Follows state custom; set out in the contract | Texas has no state deed transfer tax. Article VIII, Section 29 of the Texas Constitution (added Nov. 3, 2015) bars any law enacted after January 1, 2016 that imposes a transfer tax on a transaction conveying fee simple title to real property. The county clerk charges ordinary recording fees to record the deed. |
| Survey, soil or perc tests | We pay for our own | Often requested from the seller |
| Farm-use rollback, if any | Negotiated in the contract | Negotiated in the contract |
| Liens, back taxes, mortgage payoff | Paid from your proceeds | Paid from your proceeds |
Sources: transfer tax · closing practice
Where to check the facts yourself, most of it free. These are the same sources we use.
Send the address or parcel number to a buyer who pays cash and does not need a lender: we reply within one business day with a written offer or our questions, and the due-diligence period is written into the contract. Listing can bring more if the parcel is clearly buildable and you have months to wait.
Acreage in the unincorporated north and east of the county around Lucas, Fairview and the edges of Celina and Prosper, where large-lot custom homes still make sense, plus one-acre-plus lots inside the established estate neighborhoods.
It depends on the ZIP and on how buildable the parcel is. Typical home values in Collin County range from $283k to $742k by ZIP, and at the national 13.7% lot share that implies finished-lot budgets from about $39k to $102k. Raw land sells below a finished lot by the cost of access, utilities and approvals.
No. We make a written offer from public records, maps and land sales, and do the survey, soil and title work ourselves during the due-diligence period, at our cost.
Yes. Qualifying land is appraised on its agricultural productivity value instead of market value; it generally must have been in agricultural or timber use for at least five of the past seven years. If the use changes to a non-agricultural use, a rollback tax is imposed equal to the difference between the taxes paid on the productivity value and the taxes that would have been paid on market value for each of the three years before the year of the change (Tax Code 23.55(a)). For a change of use on or after June 15, 2021, no interest is added to 1-d-1 rollback: HB 3833 deleted the former 5% interest (the interest the Comptroller mentions applies to the separate 1-d program). A sale alone is not the trigger: the Comptroller says the property owner who changes the use owes the rollback, and a tax lien attaches to the land on the date of the change. Who bears it when the buyer will develop is negotiated in the purchase contract. Who pays is agreed in the contract, so raise it before you agree a price.
Texas has no state deed transfer tax. Article VIII, Section 29 of the Texas Constitution (added Nov. 3, 2015) bars any law enacted after January 1, 2016 that imposes a transfer tax on a transaction conveying fee simple title to real property. The county clerk charges ordinary recording fees to record the deed.
Yes to all three. Back taxes and liens are paid from the proceeds at closing, we work with the executor or every heir on title, and a landlocked parcel is priced around the easement work rather than turned down.
Other counties where we buy land: Comal County, TX · Williamson County, TN · St. Johns County, FL · Delaware County, OH · Hamilton County, IN · Forsyth County, GA · Washington County, UT
Guides for landowners: How to Sell Land: By Owner, With an Agent, or to a Cash Buyer · How Much Is My Land Worth? Three Methods, With Real Math · Is My Land Buildable? A Seller's Checklist Before You Price It · Selling Land to a Developer: How Builders Price It and What to Ask · Selling a Teardown: How to Sell a House for Its Land Value · Selling Inherited Land: Taxes, Title and Your Real Options
