Buying or selling in El Paso County, from the Upper Valley to the Lower Valley

What Casa 915 Connect is

Casa 915 Connect is a free request form for El Paso County: you say whether you plan to buy, sell or relocate to Fort Bliss, which part of the county you have in mind, and when. Sending a request costs nothing.

No licensed agent is connected to the site yet, so for now your request is saved and the site operator emails you to confirm it arrived. No real estate advice or answers about a specific home are given until a licensed Texas real estate agent is connected and named on this page.

How El Paso County is organized

The City of El Paso fills the middle of the county, but it does not cover all of it. Socorro, Horizon City, San Elizario, Anthony and Clint are incorporated cities and towns, and Vinton is an incorporated village, each with its own local government. Canutillo, Fabens, Tornillo, Westway, Sparks, Agua Dulce, Homestead Meadows North and South, Butterfield, Prado Verde, Morning Glory and Fort Bliss are census-designated places: the Census Bureau counts them as communities, but they are unincorporated and have no city government of their own.

Housing age shifts from place to place. Census estimates put the median year built at 1981 in Clint and 1984 in the City of El Paso, against 2000 in Socorro, 2001 in San Elizario and in Anthony, and 2004 in Horizon City. On the ground that shows up as the historic homes of Kern Place and Sunset Heights in Central, and newer tract subdivisions in the Far East and in several of the towns around the city.

School districts do not follow city lines. El Paso ISD, Ysleta ISD, Socorro ISD, Canutillo ISD and Clint ISD all serve parts of the City of El Paso, and San Elizario ISD, Fabens ISD, Anthony ISD and Tornillo ISD serve the communities they are named for. Horizon City, for example, sits in both Clint ISD and Socorro ISD. Always confirm the attendance zone for a specific address directly with the district.

Property taxes: there is no single El Paso rate

A Texas property tax bill is a stack of separate rates, one for each taxing unit where the home sits. In El Paso County that usually means the county, a city if the home is inside one, a school district, El Paso Community College and the University Medical Center hospital district. Two homes a few miles apart can carry different totals because they sit in different cities or school districts.

For one piece of that stack: the City of El Paso adopted a rate of $0.759649 per $100 of taxable value for tax year 2025, and its Notice of Public Hearing dated August 4, 2026 proposed $0.809487 per $100 for tax year 2026. That is the city's share only, and a proposed rate can be adopted as published or changed, so check the current figure. To see every rate that applies to a specific property, use the El Paso County truth-in-taxation site.

If you buy a home to live in, look at the residence homestead exemption. The Texas Comptroller states that school districts must provide a $140,000 residence homestead exemption, and that an owner who acquires a home after January 1 may receive the general residence homestead exemption for the applicable portion of that tax year once they qualify, if the previous owner did not receive the same exemption. The application is Comptroller Form 50-114, filed with the appraisal district.

Texas paperwork buyers and sellers should expect

Texas Property Code 5.008 requires most sellers of a previously occupied single-family home to give the buyer a written Seller's Disclosure Notice. The Texas Real Estate Commission publishes a version, TREC Form 55-1, effective May 28, 2026, which sellers can read on the TREC site.

Some subdivisions in El Paso County sit inside a utility or water district, or a public improvement district (PID), with its own tax or assessment. Texas requires the seller to give the buyer a written notice about the district before a contract is signed. Ask the licensed agent on the transaction whether a specific home is in one.

What the home value numbers on this site mean

Two kinds of figures appear on these pages, and neither one is a sale price. The typical home value (Zillow Home Value Index) for the El Paso metro was $234,069 in August 2026, 2.2% higher than a year earlier. The median home value in each by the numbers block is owner-estimated: it comes from what homeowners told the American Community Survey (2020-2024 five-year estimates) their homes were worth.

Neither number tells you what a particular house will sell for. Condition, lot, street and timing all move an individual price, and only a licensed agent working a specific property can speak to that.

New Mexico across the line is not covered

The Borderland does not stop at the state line, but this site does. Sunland Park, Santa Teresa and Anthony, New Mexico, along with Chaparral and Las Cruces, are in New Mexico, which licenses real estate separately, so they are not covered here. The Anthony page on this site is Anthony, Texas, in El Paso County.