{"id":163816,"date":"2026-02-13T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:46:13","slug":"keller-isd-home-starts-and-closings-trend-downward-due-to-less-developable-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/163816\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller ISD home starts and closings trend downward due to less developable land"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew home rates are slowing near Keller ISD as space for more development decreases, according to data from Zonda Demographics.<\/p>\n

Members of the Keller ISD’s Long Range Planning and Citizens Advisory Bond Committees were provided a presentation of the latest enrollment and housing trends at a meeting Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

Current situation<\/p>\n

New home in 2025 starts and closings are expected to finish below the 2024 totals, according to the presentation<\/a>. Housing starts are when construction for a new development begins, according to the National Association of Home Builders<\/a>, while a closing is when ownership is passed to a buyer<\/a>. District enrollment has decreased by 4,370 students over the last five years.<\/p>\n

\"chartSlower job growth in the region, declining birthrates and an increase in other education opportunities also are contributing to the enrollment decline at KISD, according to the district<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A presentation from Zonda Demographics states the district has:<\/p>\n

95 homes in active inventoryRoughly 440 lots available to build on490 lots planned in the future\"chart\"chart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New home rates are slowing near Keller ISD as space for more development decreases, according to data from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41435,116,118,117,1234,55763,66954,66953,7830,66955,66956,66957],"class_list":{"0":"post-163816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-alliance-isd","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-keller","13":"tag-keller-development","14":"tag-keller-development-trends","15":"tag-keller-homes","16":"tag-keller-isd","17":"tag-keller-isd-enrollment","18":"tag-keller-isd-shrinking","19":"tag-keller-isd-split"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}