75143 Home Values

This zip stretches across the western shore of Cedar Creek Lake and the small towns of Kemp and Tool, where the housing stock splits cleanly between two worlds. Along the waterfront, you'll find pier-and-dock cottages from the 1970s sitting next to custom-built lakefront homes with open-water views and boathouses. Move a few miles inland and the landscape shifts to manufactured homes on multi-acre tracts, small cattle ranches with ag exemptions, and pockets of new construction subdivisions.

Cedar Creek Lake keeps this market from behaving like the rest of rural East Texas. The lake creates a pricing floor that pulls the median well above what the inland homes alone would support. Sellers are sitting on meaningful inventory right now, and homes are taking longer to move than they did a year ago. Concessions are becoming standard. The buyer pool skews heavily toward Dallas commuters and weekend-retreat seekers.

If you're selling lakefront, lean hard into dock condition, water depth, and view quality -- those are the three things lake buyers will pay a premium for. Inland sellers need to price aggressively; you're competing with new construction in the low $300s that offers turnkey living. Get a pre-listing inspection done and address the obvious issues before going live.