Episode 02
Relocating to El Paso · 14 min read
Franklin Hills is the established, high-end neighborhood of west El Paso's 79912, set in the Franklin Mountains foothills south of Transmountain with wide views over the Rio Grande Valley and the city. Homes here are larger than the westside norm, mostly built 2003 to 2014, on mature streets served by El Paso ISD schools including Franklin High, with no HOA. As of August 7, 2026 there are 13 homes for sale from $399,000 to $1,099,000, and 61 homes sold inside the neighborhood boundary in the past twelve months on just 2.6 months of inventory. You buy here for the setting, the space, and the established address. Buyers who want brand-new construction on the west side look to Cimarron Canyon or Enchanted Hills instead.
| Metric | Franklin Hills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Homes for sale now | 13, from $399,000 to $1,099,000 | El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026 |
| Median asking price, current listings | $635,500 | El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026 |
| Homes sold, past 12 months | 61 | El Paso MLS, 12 months ending August 7, 2026 |
| Median price sold homes asked | about $546,000 | El Paso MLS, same period |
| Median days from listing to close | 62 | El Paso MLS, same period |
| Months of inventory | 2.6 | El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026 |
| Current listings not yet built | 0 of 13 | El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026 |
| Size of current listings | 2,135 to 3,925 sq ft, median 2,921 | El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026 |
| Typical construction years | mostly 2003 to 2014 | El Paso MLS, July 2026 |
| Schools | El Paso ISD: Tippin, Hornedo, Franklin High | EPISD assignment |
| HOA | None in Franklin Hills itself | Confirmed July 2026 |
| West / Upper Valley median sale price, for scale | $400,000 | GEPAR, July 2026 |
For live listings inside the neighborhood boundary, refreshed hourly, see the Franklin Hills neighborhood page. The market figures above update daily on that page.
Texas does not make home sale prices public record, and our MLS feed does not release them for automated display. So instead of publishing a sold number we cannot verify, this guide reports what we can verify and refresh every day: what sold homes asked, how fast they went from listing to closing, and how much supply exists. When we cite a sale figure at all, it is a GEPAR aggregate for a whole submarket, labeled as such. Every number on this page carries its date.
That standard matters in Franklin Hills more than most places, because this is a neighborhood whose statistics are easy to contaminate with homes from nearby subdivisions. More on that next.
Franklin Hills sits in the Franklin Mountains foothills of west El Paso's ZIP 79912, south of Transmountain. Its higher-elevation lots are the reason people fall for it: the neighborhood looks out over the Rio Grande Valley and the city, and the sunset views from up here are a genuine feature of living in it, not a listing-photo trick.
Two boundary facts keep the numbers on this page honest:
Franklin Hills means the Franklin Hills subdivision. Our figures come from the homes recorded in the Franklin Hills subdivision itself, most of them on Franklin-named streets like Franklin Gate, Franklin Bluff, Franklin Trail, Franklin Perch, Franklin Hawk and Franklin Red, along with a handful of neighbors like Desert Night and Casper Ridge that belong to the same subdivision. The hub page draws the actual boundary on a map.
Tuscany Ridge is not Franklin Hills. The gated Tuscany Ridge community nearby is its own separate subdivision, and the foothills custom homes on the Calle and Via streets above the neighborhood belong to other subdivisions as well. Pages that sweep those $1.2 million-plus customs into "Franklin Hills" are describing a different market. When a home inside the actual neighborhood asks over a million dollars, and one currently does, that is the top of this market, not its middle.
As of August 7, 2026 there are 13 homes for sale in Franklin Hills, from $399,000 to $1,099,000, with a median asking price of $635,500.
How that splits out, from the same 13 listings:
The size story is the quiet headline. Today's listings run 2,135 to 3,925 square feet with a median of 2,921, and 12 of the 13 have four or more bedrooms. Franklin-named homes overall run roughly 2,100 to 4,100 square feet (El Paso MLS, July 2026). This is where the westside's larger established homes are, and buyers stepping up from a 2,000 square foot house feel the difference immediately.
One more thing you get at every price point here: a finished house. None of the 13 current listings are homes waiting to be built. In Cimarron Canyon, by comparison, 43 percent of current listings are not yet built (El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026).
In the twelve months ending August 7, 2026, 61 homes sold inside the Franklin Hills boundary, about five a month. The median sold home had asked about $546,000, and the median trip from listing to closing was 62 days. Set those 13 current listings against that sales pace and the neighborhood is carrying just 2.6 months of inventory, which is tight by any standard measure.
Read those numbers together and the market character is clear: fewer transactions than the newer neighborhoods, because almost nobody is forced to sell a finished home in a finished neighborhood, but demand deep enough that what does list moves quickly at a high price point.
For scale: across the wider West / Upper Valley area, GEPAR reports a median sale price of $400,000 on 124 homes sold in July 2026. The median Franklin Hills home that sold over the past year asked about $546,000. This neighborhood sits well above its own side of town, and its own side of town is already the expensive side. The West / Upper Valley area page tracks the whole submarket.
These are the three westside neighborhoods we track street by street, and all three columns below come from the same El Paso MLS pipeline, computed daily inside each neighborhood's actual boundary, over the same twelve months ending August 7, 2026. A comparison like this only means something when every column is measured the same way over the same period, which is why we compute it ourselves rather than quote anyone.
| Franklin Hills | Enchanted Hills | Cimarron Canyon | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes sold, past year | 61 | 123 | 77 |
| Sales pace | ~5 a month | ~10 a month | ~6 a month |
| Months of inventory | 2.6 | 2.9 | 5.5 |
| Median days, listing to close | 62 | 56 | 69 |
| Median price sold homes asked | $546,000 | $380,000 | $590,000 |
| Homes for sale now | 13 | 29 | 35 |
| Median asking now | $636,000 | $443,000 | $684,000 |
| Of today's listings, not yet built | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| School district | El Paso ISD | Canutillo ISD | Canutillo ISD |
El Paso MLS, twelve months ending August 7, 2026; current-listing figures as of the same date. Price figures are asking prices, since sale prices are not published in our feed. Each neighborhood's page refreshes these daily: Franklin Hills, Enchanted Hills, Cimarron Canyon.
Three things fall out of that table.
Franklin Hills is the established market. Zero of its current listings are unbuilt homes, against 43 percent in Cimarron Canyon. Nothing here depends on a builder's schedule: you are choosing among finished houses on mature streets, and you can close on a normal timeline.
It is tighter than its price point suggests. At 2.6 months of inventory, Franklin Hills is currently the tightest of the three, despite carrying the second-highest prices. Cimarron Canyon is carrying more than twice the supply relative to its sales pace, at 5.5 months. Enchanted Hills turns over twice as fast in volume, but the median home that sold there asked about $166,000 less than Franklin Hills' equivalent.
It is a different product and a different district. Cimarron Canyon and Enchanted Hills are Canutillo ISD new-construction markets near Transmountain. Franklin Hills is the El Paso ISD established market in the central-west foothills. Buyers rarely cross-shop all three once they see them; the table is mostly useful for deciding which lane you are in. If it is the new-construction lane, our Cimarron guide and Enchanted Hills guide go street by street there.
Franklin Hills is served by El Paso ISD: Tippin Elementary, Hornedo Middle, and Franklin High. That is a different district from the Canutillo ISD that serves Cimarron Canyon and Enchanted Hills to the north, and for many west El Paso buyers the district line is the first filter that decides which neighborhoods are even on the list. Attendance assignments are set by the district, so confirm your specific address with EPISD before buying on school assignment.
Franklin Hills itself has no HOA. No dues, no exterior design review, no management company. The land follows the same Hunt model as most El Paso growth areas, with Hunt developing and selling finished lots to the builders who built here.
The exception to keep straight is the one next door: the gated Tuscany Ridge community nearby has its own HOA and its own rules, and it is a separate subdivision, not part of Franklin Hills. As always, confirm the HOA status of your specific address during the option period; that check is cheap and the surprise is not.
The walkable draw here is the outdoors. Trails on the edges of the neighborhood lead straight into the Franklin Mountains, with the Lost Dog Trail trailhead, Linda Daw Hudson Park, and the Resler hike-and-bike trails close by. On the ground that means a trail run or an evening hike starts from the neighborhood, not from a parking lot across town.
Everyday errands are a short drive rather than a walk: about five minutes to Whole Foods, the Kinective gym, coffee, and restaurants. So Franklin Hills pairs real from-the-neighborhood mountain access with a short drive to upscale everyday retail, and we would rather tell you plainly that the retail part is a drive than borrow a walkability story that belongs to Cimarron Canyon.
The lots people compete for are the ones with no back neighbors. Those back up to open desert or sit on the view edges, and they tend to carry a premium worth budgeting for if the sunset view is the point.
Most Franklin Hills homes were built between 2003 and 2014, which means major components on many of them are in their second decade. None of this is a reason to avoid the neighborhood; it is a reason to inspect the way you would any established home: check the age and condition of the roof, the HVAC, and the other big-ticket systems, and price your offer with their remaining life in mind.
There are also newer homes mixed in, including recent construction at the top of the market, so "established neighborhood" does not mean every house is twenty years old. It means the streets, landscaping, and sales history are mature, which is exactly what some buyers are paying for.
It fits move-up buyers who want more house on an established west-side street, buyers who want the Franklin Mountains at the end of the block and a view over the valley at sunset, families targeting El Paso ISD and Franklin High, and anyone who wants a high-end address without HOA dues. Empty-nesters trading down from larger properties and relocating buyers at the higher end, including some PCS moves, are regulars here too.
It is a harder fit if you want brand-new construction, which this neighborhood is essentially done producing; Cimarron Canyon and Enchanted Hills own that lane. Same if walkable restaurants matter more to you than trails, or if your budget centers under $400,000, where Franklin Hills had just two listings as of August 7, 2026 and Enchanted Hills offers far more choices.
Browse every neighborhood we cover on the El Paso neighborhoods index, or zoom out to the whole west side in the Westside El Paso neighborhood guide.
West El Paso, ZIP 79912, in the Franklin Mountains foothills south of Transmountain. The neighborhood sits at higher elevation with wide views over the Rio Grande Valley and the city. The Franklin Hills page shows the exact boundary on a map.
As of August 7, 2026 there were 13 homes for sale, asking $399,000 to $1,099,000 with a median asking price of $635,500. Over the twelve months ending that date, 61 homes sold inside the boundary, and the median sold home had asked about $546,000. Sale prices are not public record in Texas, so we report verified asking figures with dates rather than estimates.
Texas is a non-disclosure state, so what a home actually sold for is not public record, and our MLS feed does not release sale prices for automated display. Rather than publish a number we cannot verify, we publish what we can: what sold homes asked, days from listing to close, and months of inventory, refreshed daily on the neighborhood page. Area-level sale medians we cite come from GEPAR aggregates, labeled as such.
No. Franklin Hills is an essentially finished, established resale neighborhood, with homes largely built between 2003 and 2014 and some newer homes mixed in. None of the 13 current listings are unbuilt homes. Buyers who want brand-new construction on the west side look to Cimarron Canyon or Enchanted Hills instead.
In the twelve months ending August 7, 2026, 61 homes sold, about five a month, with a median of 62 days from listing to close. Against 13 current listings that is 2.6 months of inventory, currently the tightest supply of the three westside neighborhoods we measure daily.
El Paso ISD: Tippin Elementary, Hornedo Middle, and Franklin High. That is a different district from Canutillo ISD, which serves Cimarron Canyon and Enchanted Hills farther north. Confirm your specific address with the district, since EPISD sets attendance boundaries.
No. Franklin Hills itself has no HOA. The gated Tuscany Ridge community nearby has its own HOA, but it is a separate subdivision, not part of Franklin Hills. Confirm HOA status for your specific address during the option period.
No. Tuscany Ridge is a separate gated community with its own HOA, and the high-dollar foothills custom homes on the Calle and Via streets belong to other subdivisions as well. Statistics that mix those homes into Franklin Hills describe a different market than the actual neighborhood.
Bigger than the westside norm. Current listings run 2,135 to 3,925 square feet with a median of 2,921, and 12 of the 13 have four or more bedrooms (El Paso MLS, August 7, 2026). Franklin-named homes overall run roughly 2,100 to 4,100 square feet.
Franklin Hills is the established, larger-home, El Paso ISD option in the central-west foothills, with no HOA and zero unbuilt listings. Cimarron Canyon and Enchanted Hills are the newer-construction Canutillo ISD neighborhoods near Transmountain; Cimarron carries the walkable retail village and the higher price band, Enchanted Hills the lower entry point. Over the twelve months ending August 7, 2026, median asking prices of sold homes were about $546,000 in Franklin Hills, $590,000 in Cimarron Canyon, and $380,000 in Enchanted Hills.
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