01Firefly Farms · Springtown, Texas
Come home
to the farm.
A master-planned country community on Highway 199, thirty minutes from Fort Worth. Pick your homesite and your home in the same visit — and if you are not sure yet whether to buy or lease the ground, read on.
02Three ways to hold the land
This is the decision that decides everything else.
Not the cabinets. Not the elevation. Whether your home is an appreciating asset in fifteen years comes down almost entirely to what you did with the ground under it.
Land-lease
Cheapest to enterYou own the home, you rent the pad. Lowest entry cost by a wide margin and the fastest to close. The trade is that the rent is set by the owner, and the home is usually titled as personal property — so it depreciates like a vehicle unless the community converts.
Ask what the rent has done over ten years. If nobody will tell you, that is the answer.
Resident-owned
Best of bothA co-operative where the residents collectively own the ground. You buy a share along with the home. Lot fees still exist, but the people setting them are the people paying them, which changes the arithmetic permanently.
Read the bylaws and the last three years of minutes before you buy in.
Fee-simple
Appreciates like a houseYou buy the lot outright. No lot rent, ever. With a permanent foundation the home titles as real property, which unlocks conventional, FHA, VA and USDA lending and puts it on the same appreciation curve as the stick-built house next door.
Highest entry cost. Also the only path that reliably builds equity.
Lots for sale or lease
01Springtown, TX
Firefly Farms
Our own master-planned country community in Springtown, right off Highway 199 and thirty minutes from Fort Worth. Homesites run from a quarter acre to a full acre, for sale or lease — pick the lot and the home in the same visit.
- Operated by
- Honey Bee Homes
- Homes from
- Call for pricing
- Homesites from 1/4 to 1 acre
- Lots for sale or for lease
- Community garden
- Stables
- Room to fish, garden and unwind
- 30 minutes from Fort Worth
Already own the land?
Then this gets simpler and cheaper. Send us the parcel number and we will tell you what it takes to set a home on it — access, utilities, setbacks, permits, the lot — usually within two business days.