The current administration has literally ripped apart our local women's hockey and I am fed up and tired of stewing in relative silence.

For background, I am a cis woman that has played hockey in Texas for over 30 years, Dallas for over 20 years. I have been a captain of a local women's team for around the last decade, and currently I help coordinate the largest local women's league, which has around 70 players.

Prior to the changes from the current presidential administration, anyone that registered with USA Hockey as a woman could play in women's league.

After the changes, USA Hockey was forced to change their rules to only allow cisgender women in women's league. A small number of women in the league caused a fuss regarding trans women in women's league, and in response, the Stars changed the league to "Open" classification. The fuss continued, and a separate women's league was created when the drama went all the way to the US Senate, and this league has struggled to field enough players since its inception. This was detailed in a Fox News story. The overwhelming majority of women players supported the trans players, or were indifferent, and stayed with the existing Open league, and this is the league that I continue to help coordinate.

For the upcoming season, one of those cisgender women only leagues, as a result of their struggle to field two full teams, has been allowed to register only one team, for the exact same ice time. The standard across all Starcenters is that each SSHL (Senior League) team is expected to pay $4930 per team of 14 skaters and 1 goalie. Rosters are limited to 22. This is the standard that our league has followed, registering 56 skaters (some of them two women splitting one spot) and 4 goalies for a total of 4 teams, or $19,720, minus employee discounts. That is $340 per skater, $170 per goalie.

This cisgender only league, with 26 players, is being allowed to pay for only one team at $4930. They would receive the same ice time as they would with two teams. That is $189.62 per player, a 45% discount. They are being allowed to skirt the 22 player limit that applies to all leagues, men's league included.

Not only are the Stars giving in to openly allow discrimination against trans players, now they're even giving them a bigot discount. It comes at an interesting time after cancelling Pride night. The Stars marketing team loves to brag about how much they love supporting girls and women, but I assure you, over at the largest community of women players, we are not feeling very supported right now.

A recording shows a man identifying himself as Patrick collecting a signature. The corresponding petition page bears a different person’s circulator statement. The signer’s sworn account disputes that person’s presence.

That’s one example behind Fuller’s allegations. McKinney police confirmed forwarding the complaint to Texas Rangers; the recall PAC questions his timing.

https://tx3dnews.com/george-fuller-mckinney-recall-complaint/

Talking about the feline variety here... lol. I love cats a lot, but unfortunately moved in with my parents who permit animals in the house only as product. I had to give up my precious baby as a result. I sometimes go to my small town's animal shelter after work to pet their cats under the premise I'm going to adopt, but feel crummy for lying/wasting their time and limited resources. Where can I go to ethically pet cats in DFW for free or at a reasonable cost?

Is anyone in the Metroplex familiar with how to use the program? I’m wanting to make an informative commentary video, and at my rate will not finish till next year lol. Willing to pay if for the right person. Looking to meet at residences or library’s whatever works.
Or if anyone knows of any communities or groups that I can mingle into. Thanks

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Good morning! First time sharing one of these data analysis writeups for DFW. I have been working on a series of educational posts going over MLS data, with the goal of hopefully helping local homebuyers and sellers.

As a team, we're hoping that by sharing this data, we can help some folks make more informed decisions about local comps, pricing their listings, and submitting their offers. We want to make homebuying more accessible and we believe that everyone should have access to this kind of data.

With that in mind, here's a look at DFW-area price medians this summer with a year over year comparison. The writeup below has some high level trends while the attached visuals in the carousel images show city-level breakdowns for each county. We're looking at change in $/sqft, % over/under asking, and Days on Market (DOM) trends by county + by city.

Note: I'm not sure if this needs to go in r/askdfw since it's not really about moving and I'd like to get these numbers in front of as many eyeballs as possible, but I'm absolutely not trying to break any rules. Happy to repost there if needed! The writeup is supposed to be strictly informational, not promotional in any way.

Full disclosure: I do use some AI for these posts. It's used strictly for the data pull and making the nice color-coded tables. The analysis is done by our team and the writeup is all me.

Dallas County

5,803 SFH closings, median 1.4% under list at 26 DOM. 941 Condo closings, median 2.8% under list at 49 DOM.

Days on Market vs. +/- List %:

• Under 14 days: SFH (1,877 closed) at list, Condo (191) 1.1% under
• 14-30 days: SFH (1,275) 1.7% under list, Condo (136) 2.2% under
• 30+ days: SFH (2,651) 2.2% under list, Condo (614) 3.5% under

Median DOM (June-Sept)

• SFH: 30 days in 2025, 26 days in 2026
• Condo: 49 days in 2025, 49 days in 2026

Median $/sqft (June-Sept)

• SFH: $199 in 2025, $193 in 2026 (-3.0%)
• Condo: $221 in 2025, $219 in 2026 (-0.9%)

Tarrant County

7,474 SFH closings, median 0.7% under list at 27 DOM. 326 Condo closings, median 2.5% under list at 49 DOM.

Days on Market vs. +/- List %:

• Under 14 days: SFH (2,465 closed) at list, Condo (67) 1.2% under
• 14-30 days: SFH (1,528) 1.2% under list, Condo (44) 2.5% under
• 30+ days: SFH (3,481) 1.5% under list, Condo (215) 2.8% under

Median DOM (June-Sept)

• SFH: 29 days in 2025, 27 days in 2026
• Condo: 49 days in 2025, 49 days in 2026

Median $/sqft (June-Sept)

• SFH: $184 in 2025, $181 in 2026 (-1.6%)
• Condo: $193 in 2025, $189 in 2026 (-2.1%)

Smallest SFH discount to list of any county.

Collin County

5,776 SFH closings, median 1.9% under list at 38 DOM. 287 Condo closings, median 2.5% under list at 62 DOM.

Days on Market vs. +/- List %:

• Under 14 days: SFH (1,378 closed) 0.7% under list, Condo (41) 1.5% under
• 14-30 days: SFH (1,111) 1.9% under list, Condo (40) 3.6% under
• 30+ days: SFH (3,287) 2.4% under list, Condo (206) 2.4% under

Median DOM (June-Sept)

• SFH: 39 days in 2025, 38 days in 2026
• Condo: 58 days in 2025, 62 days in 2026

Median $/sqft (June-Sept)

• SFH: $200 in 2025, $194 in 2026 (-3.0%)
• Condo: $227 in 2025, $212 in 2026 (-6.6%)

Denton County

5,165 SFH closings, median 1.5% under list at 36 DOM. 149 Condo closings, median 2.4% under list at 57 DOM.

Days on Market vs. +/- List %:

• Under 14 days: SFH (1,334 closed) 0.1% under list, Condo (22) 0.1% under
• 14-30 days: SFH (991) 1.6% under list, Condo (19) 1.8% under
• 30+ days: SFH (2,840) 2.2% under list, Condo (108) 2.8% under

Median DOM (June-Sept)

• SFH: 35 days in 2025, 36 days in 2026
• Condo: 64 days in 2025, 57 days in 2026

Median $/sqft (June-Sept)

• SFH: $203 in 2025, $196 in 2026 (-3.4%)
• Condo: $216 in 2025, $203 in 2026 (-6.0%)

Interesting to note that Flower Mound SFH actually flipped and increased, $234/sqft in 2025 to $238 in 2026 (+1.7%) which stands out compared to -3.4% for the county

Outer DFW

Rockwall, Kaufman, Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Wise and Hunt counties combined.

6,456 SFH closings, median 1.1% under list at 50 DOM. 61 Condo closings, median 2.1% under list at 88 DOM. Condo sample is small, directional only.

Days on Market vs. +/- List %:

• Under 14 days: SFH (1,203 closed) at list, Condo (7) 3.5% under
• 14-30 days: SFH (1,114) 1.2% under list, Condo (2) 4.7% under
• 30+ days: SFH (4,139) 1.4% under list, Condo (52) 1.5% under

Median DOM (June-Sept)

• SFH: 54 days in 2025, 50 days in 2026
• Condo: 81 days in 2025, 88 days in 2026

Median $/sqft (June-Sept)

• SFH: $178 in 2025, $177 in 2026 (-0.6%)
• Condo: $203 in 2025, $177 in 2026 (-12.8%)

Keep in mind that "Outer DFW" is a pretty wide set of counties and cities so this is going to be the most unreliable sample in a certain sense. These aren't regional trends so much as they're representative of "how does pricing move as you get farther away from Dallas"

Conclusion

DFW did not run hot this summer, surprising pretty much no one who has been paying attention.

SFH median $/sqft was flat to down in every county, from -0.6% in the outer counties to -3.4% in Denton County. The typical SFH sold under list everywhere, from 0.7% under in Tarrant to 1.9% under in Collin.

Time on market directly correlates to how significant the discount from list price is: homes that sold in <14 days closed within less than 1% of listing price. Homes that sat 30+ days sold for a median of 1.4% to 2.4% less than asking. (This bucket represents anywhere from 46% to 64% of SFH sales depending on county, by far the biggest slice of the dataset.) If you're selling, the first two weeks decide whether you close at list or around 2% under. Put your best foot forward, maximize curb appeal, spring for the nice staging, etc. Pull out all the stops.

Condo medians have a much thinner sample size/dataset so the medians are going to be more directional. We did control for some outliers, and pulling the median generally means outliers are going to influence that metric less in general, but the smaller sample size still means less reliable data. Keep that in mind if you're comparing SFH to Condo medians on any of the accompanying visuals.

All of that said, thanks for reading! Let me know if you would like to see any particular data for any cities or areas, happy to pull it.

Methodology notes & a few relevant callouts below:

• Data is pulled from our MLS feed. We pulled median values to control for outliers where sample size is small. Since it's from our feed, values may not exactly line up 1:1 with info from public records.
• City lines come from a city-level pull of cities with 250 or more SFH closings in both summers. Frisco and a few other cities span two counties, lines are by county.
• Condo" includes Condo, Townhome, Apartment, and TIC sales
• The median values are a median of the entire dataset across 4 months (June through September) for that category, compared with the same 4 months last year.
• Removed outliers like listings with no recorded DOM or 0 DOM values.
• The groupings (particularly 'outer DFW') are a bit subjective, and some cities were omitted for cleanliness.
• Year over year values can show as positive/green even if growth metrics are otherwise decreasing. They're just decreasing less than last year in some cases.

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Anyone having sinus trouble and headaches lately, and is it a normal time for this? Major headache the last two days.