Franklin Hills

How we report prices here

As licensed agents we work from the full El Paso MLS record, including what homes actually sold for. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so sale prices are not public record, and the rule we follow is simple: we use the sold record to make informed statements about the neighborhood, and we never publish the exact number a specific home sold for. The sold figures in this guide come from a pull of the Franklin Hills subdivision's MLS records dated August 8, 2026, reported as neighborhood aggregates. The figures that refresh daily on this page come from the live listing feed, which carries asking prices rather than closing prices, so the daily numbers are what sold homes asked, how fast they went from listing to closing, and how much supply exists, each with its date.

That discipline 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.

Where Franklin Hills is, exactly

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.

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 map on this page draws the actual boundary.

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 customs into "Franklin Hills" are describing a different market. Franklin Hills has its own real top end, and it does not need the borrowed one: two sales inside the actual subdivision cleared $1 million in the year to August 2026, topping at $1,550,000. That is the top of this market, not its middle.

What homes actually sold for

Across the 63 sales recorded in the Franklin Hills subdivision in the twelve months ending August 8, 2026, the median was $532,000, or $194 per square foot, on homes from 1,551 to 4,328 square feet with a median of 2,645. The middle of this market is unusually concentrated: 24 of the 63 sales closed between $500,000 and $600,000. And the character of what sold confirms what the streets already tell you: 62 of the 63 sales were resales, exactly one was a new home, and only 3 of the sold homes were built in 2020 or later.

There is negotiation room here, unlike the newer westside. Of the 63 sales, 33 closed below the final asking price, 19 at asking, and 11 above, with the median sale settling at 99 percent of asking. Twenty-six of the 63 had cut their price at least once before selling. Enchanted Hills, measured the same way a week earlier, sold at exactly asking at the median. Priced right, Franklin Hills homes get their number; priced ahead of the market, they adjust first.

The entry point is more reachable than the listings suggest. Only 2 of the 13 homes listed on August 7, 2026 asked under $400,000, but 13 of the year's 63 sales closed there, starting at $295,000. At that budget, patience gets rewarded here more often than the shelf implies. The top is real. Two sales cleared $1 million, topping at $1,550,000, well above anything listed at the time. At its upper end, Franklin Hills is one of the west side's true luxury markets, without needing to borrow its neighbors' trophy listings. Today's asking prices run $355,000 to $1.6 million (as of October 2026); the snapshot above refreshes hourly.

What you get at every price point: a finished, larger house

The size story is the quiet headline. The 13 homes listed on August 7, 2026 ran 2,135 to 3,925 square feet with a median of 2,921, and 12 of the 13 had 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.

And at every price point here you get a finished house. None of those 13 listings were homes waiting to be built. In Cimarron Canyon, by comparison, 43 percent of the listings on the same date were not yet built. The "for sale, not yet built" figure in the market read above tracks this live.

The established westside vs the new

These are the three westside neighborhoods we track street by street, and every column below comes from the same El Paso MLS pipeline, computed 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 is the established market. Zero of its listings were 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. Per square foot, it is priced closer to the value side than the luxury side. $194 per sold square foot here against $185 in Enchanted Hills and $266 in Cimarron Canyon. Franklin Hills' higher sticker price is mostly more house, not premium pricing: the median home that sold here was about 500 square feet larger than Enchanted Hills' median sale.

It is tighter than its price point suggests. At 2.6 months of inventory in August 2026, Franklin Hills was the tightest of the three despite carrying the second-highest prices, while Cimarron Canyon carried more than twice the supply relative to its sales pace. 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.

Schools, HOA, and the setting

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 has its own HOA and its own rules, and it is a separate subdivision. 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. Everyday errands are a short drive rather than a walk: about five minutes to Whole Foods, the Kinective gym, coffee, and restaurants. 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.

Buying an established home: the checklist

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.

Who Franklin Hills fits, and who it doesn't

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 Enchanted Hills offers far more choices. Still weighing all three? The six-question westside fit quiz matches your budget, build preference, and priorities against the live data, the El Paso neighborhoods index lists every neighborhood we cover, and the Westside El Paso neighborhood guide zooms out.