Mira Vista

Mira Vista began as 625 acres of ranch land bought in 1985. Jerry L. Thomas broke ground in 1987, and the club opened that August — the first new country club in Fort Worth in fifteen years, with 84 charter members. The championship course is a Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish collaboration, the development runs to about 700 acres, and the club has been member-owned since 2008.

The name is Spanish for “see the view,” which is the terrain doing its own marketing. The streets are named for famous golf courses — Augusta, Cypress Point, Oakmont, Pine Valley, Shinnecock Hills, Spyglass Hill, Turnberry — and the whole community sits behind a 24-hour guarded entrance in southwest Fort Worth, minutes from Hulen and Clearfork.

I'm a Fort Worth broker and a Certified Residential Appraiser. Three things here are worth knowing before you shop, and two of them surprised me.

Club membership is not required

Worth saying first because buyers assume otherwise. Owning a home in Mira Vista does not obligate you to join the country club. Plenty of residents are members and plenty aren't.

That matters to your carrying cost, and it matters when you sell — your buyer pool isn't limited to people who want a club membership. Confirm current club terms directly with the club, but the default assumption that the house comes with mandatory dues is wrong here.

Two school districts, one gate

This is the fact I'd least expect a buyer to know.

Across the 171 listings I reviewed, 92 were Crowley ISD and 79 were Fort Worth ISD. Inside a single guarded community, the district line runs roughly down the middle.

Here's the honest part: the market doesn't price it. Crowley ISD homes closed at a median $304.88 per foot, Fort Worth ISD homes at $303.60 — a difference of about one dollar, and statistically indistinguishable. Whatever a buyer's preference between the districts, it isn't showing up in what they pay.

Which doesn't make it unimportant. It means the difference is yours to care about rather than the market's, and you have to find out which one an address is in yourself, because nothing about the gate, the street name or the subdivision field will tell you. Verify with the district before you write.

What golf frontage is actually worth here

Thirty-one of the 109 closed sales fronted the golf course. I went looking for the premium, and what I found runs the other way.

• Golf frontage: median $1,700,000 on 5,455 square feet — $321 per foot — in 38 days, at 90% of original list
• No golf frontage: median $1,325,000 on 4,265 square feet — $302 per foot — in 16 days, at 94% of original list

The per-foot gap looks like a premium until you test it: it isn't statistically significant, and golf-frontage homes are substantially larger, which explains most of the difference in total price.

What is clear is the other two numbers. Homes on the course took more than twice as long to sell and closed four points further from their asking price. More of them also came off the market without trading — 33% of golf-frontage listings, against 24% of the rest.

Asking prices on the course tend to carry a premium. Closed prices don't show one. The view is real and it's lovely; on this evidence it simply isn't turning up in what buyers pay.

If you're buying on the course, that's leverage. If you're selling on it, it's the single most useful thing on this page.

What homes here sell for

Over the five and a half years ending September 2026: 171 listings, 109 closed sales — roughly twenty a year.

• Median close $1,470,000 on 4,872 square feet — about $304 per foot
• Median lot 18,818 square feet; median year built 1997
• Median 26 days on market, at 93.6% of original list
• Closed prices ran $635,000 to $4,750,000; homes from 2,330 to 11,615 square feet

The lot range is the thing to sit with: from about 6,800 square feet to more than 96,000 — a fourteen-fold spread inside one community. Some of Mira Vista is patio-scale. Some of it is more than two acres.

And value tracks that land. Price per foot climbs from $298 on lots under 12,000 square feet to $362 above 40,000, while house size barely predicts it at all. As in most of west Fort Worth, the ground is doing the work.

So a per-foot average for “Mira Vista” is close to useless. A patio home on a quarter of an acre and an estate on two acres are the same subdivision name and not remotely the same market.

What the listings that came off the market show

That 93.6% of original list sits below most Fort Worth neighborhoods I analyze, which land between 96% and 98%.

Part of the picture is in the listings that didn't trade. 46 of 171 listings — 27% — came off the market without selling. They sat a median of 118 days before being withdrawn, asking a median of $326 per foot against the $304 that sales cleared, at a median list price of $1,995,000 against a $1,470,000 median close.

Read together: a meaningful share of this market opens above where it clears, and when the number doesn't come those owners take the house off rather than cut. Mira Vista is a long-tenure neighborhood with a great deal of equity in it, and staying put is an option most owners here actually have. Meanwhile the homes that start near the number still go in about two weeks.

What the market is actually doing

Worth setting the context, because Mira Vista is one of the few neighborhoods where I can show a rising market rather than assert one. Across 111 closed sales spanning five years, price per square foot has climbed 4.4% a year once you control for house size, with a p-value of 0.004. That is a real, statistically confirmed increase — not a flat market and not an impression.

It's worth knowing because the withdrawal rate on this page might suggest otherwise, and it shouldn't. Values have gone up while more listings came off the market, which is the signature of owners with equity and no deadline choosing to wait rather than cut. For context, of the eighteen Fort Worth neighborhoods I measure, none shows a statistically significant decline — and Mira Vista is one of only four that can demonstrate a rise.

Dues, taxes and the practical stuff

HOA dues run a median of about $2,840 a year, billed quarterly, ranging roughly $1,800 to $4,250 depending on section. That covers the 24-hour guarded entrance and common-area maintenance — it is not club dues, which are separate and optional.

Property taxes across closed sales ran about 1.8% of purchase price, with no PID. The combined rate differs slightly between the Crowley ISD and Fort Worth ISD halves, since Crowley's school rate is the higher of the two — another reason to confirm which side an address sits on. Verify current figures for the specific parcel.

Pools are close to standard: about 62% of homes that sold have one. At this price point their absence costs more than their presence adds.

What I look at in a Mira Vista house

• The lot, first. A fourteen-fold range inside one gate means land is the dominant variable, not floor plan.
• Which district. Crowley or Fort Worth ISD, confirmed for the address.
• Golf frontage — and what it's priced at. The view is worth having. The closed sales don't show a premium being paid for it, and homes asking one tend to sit longer.
• Vintage and renovation. The median home here was built in 1997. A 1994 house updated in 2008 and one updated last year are different assets, and at this price point the gap runs into six figures.
• Mechanical and roof inventory. Large houses approaching thirty years old. Worth understanding before you write, not after.

Buying or selling in Mira Vista

Twenty sales a year, spread from $635,000 to $4,750,000, across lots ranging from patio-scale to two acres, in two school districts, with a golf-course premium the market doesn't actually pay. For any specific house, the number of genuinely comparable sales is small.

That's valuation work rather than marketing work, and holding a Texas broker's license alongside a Certified Residential Appraiser certification is why I can do it from evidence.

Call or text (682) 207-4310, or send me a note.

Sales figures are medians from NTREIS listings and closed sales for the period ending September 2026, reported in aggregate. Club terms, HOA dues, tax rates and school assignments change — confirm current figures for a specific property before relying on them.