Landmark by Hillwood

If you’ve been around Denton County a while, you know this land by another name. Landmark is the old Hunter Ranch — 3,200 acres the Perot family bought in 1987 and held for the better part of four decades. It sits off I-35W at Robson Ranch Road in southwest Denton, close enough to the Argyle line that people routinely put it in the wrong city.

Here’s what it actually costs and what you actually get.

The numbers

Size	3,200 acres
Homes planned	9,000+ residences at full build
Selling now	First neighborhood, 750 homesites
Price range	High $300s to $1M+
Lot widths	40’, 45’, 50’, 60’, 70’
HOA	~$1,600/year
Total tax rate	2.708258%
Schools	Denton ISD — currently zoned to E.P. Rayzor Elementary, Harpool Middle, Guyer High
Open space	1,100 acres permanently preserved · 35 miles of trails
Commercial	5 million sq ft planned · 300-acre park and entertainment district
Grocery	H-E-B, opening early 2027 at I-35W and Robson Ranch Road
Under construction since	September 2024

On that zoning: E.P. Rayzor, Harpool and Guyer are where Landmark sits today. Hillwood has three schools planned inside the community — two elementary and one middle — and when those open, Denton ISD will almost certainly redraw the lines. If the current assignment is part of why you’re buying, ask the district directly and get the answer for your specific address rather than the community.

The nine builders, cheapest to priciest

Landmark is the community. The builders inside it are where your actual money goes — and there are nine, spanning roughly $600,000 of range:

Before you click through or walk into any of these — tell me first. Registering yourself with a builder is how you lose the representation they would otherwise have paid for.

Builder	Price range
M/I Homes	High $300s – Low $400s
Coventry Homes	High $300s – High $400s
Tri Pointe Homes	Low $400s – Low $500s
David Weekley Homes	Mid $400s – Low $500s
American Legend Homes	High $400s – Low $600s
Highland Homes	Low $500s – Low $600s
Toll Brothers	High $600s – High $700s
Perry Homes	High $600s – Low $800s
Drees Custom Homes	High $600s – Mid $900s

Three builders start in the $300s–$400s. Three start in the high $600s. Same entrance, same amenities, same HOA — very different transactions. Figure out your band before you tour, or you’ll spend a Saturday in models you were never going to buy.

The amenities — and what’s actually built

The distinction that matters on a project this young: almost none of this exists yet. Here’s the plan, and where it stands.

Hilltop Vision Complex — the signature amenity, sited near the southern summit. Infinity pool, amphitheater, play spaces, multiple large decks, and a glass-walled gathering building. Targeted to open in 2026. This is the one the renderings are selling.

Parks & Wilds — Hillwood’s name for the 1,100-acre green network. A third of the entire project: parks, trails, recreation and open space, all under permanent conservation easement. Includes the preserved Cross Timbers Forest and Pilot Knob, the highest point in Denton at 839 feet.

35 miles of trails at full build, hiking and biking, threading the whole 3,200 acres.

Learning parks — outdoor spaces built with interactive educational features and group seating laid out as outdoor classrooms, tied to the three Denton ISD campuses planned on site.

The 300-acre park and entertainment district — retail, restaurants, office, hospitality and outdoor space, anchored at I-35W and Robson Ranch Road. Years out.

Eight passive green spaces are part of phase one, alongside the 750 homesites.

What isn’t published: no fitness center, dog park, sports fields, or event lawn is named anywhere in Hillwood’s material. That doesn’t mean they aren’t coming on a 3,200-acre site — it means don’t assume them. If a specific amenity is why you’re buying, get it confirmed in writing with a date, not pointed to on a site plan.

The tax rate, in dollars

Nobody publishes this, so here it is. Four separate taxing entities stack on a home in Landmark:

Entity	Rate
MMD (Municipal Management District)	0.770000%
City of Denton	0.595420%
Denton County	0.185938%
Denton ISD	1.156900%
Total	2.708258%

What that means before exemptions:

Home price	Per year	Per month
$400,000	$10,833	$903
$500,000	$13,541	$1,128
$700,000	$18,958	$1,580
$900,000	$24,374	$2,031

That’s on top of principal, interest and insurance. On a $500,000 home you’re carrying about $1,128 a month in taxes alone.

The MMD line is the one to understand

It isn’t a MUD and it isn’t a PID — it’s a Municipal Management District, a third kind of Texas district, and it’s doing the same job: paying back the bonds that built the roads, water and drainage out there.

At 0.77%, the MMD is 28% of your total tax bill. Strip it out and the rate drops to 1.938%. In dollars, the MMD alone runs about $321 a month on a $500,000 home — $3,850 a year — and roughly $449 a month at $700,000.

That is the number that makes a Landmark home and a resale in an established Denton neighborhood at the same list price cost very different amounts to own. It’s also exactly why the advice is to get the total rate for your specific section in writing before you fall for a floor plan.

Rates are reset every year by each entity, so treat these as current, not permanent.

The H-E-B, and why it matters

H-E-B is landing at I-35W and Robson Ranch Road in early 2027. That’s not an amenity detail — an H-E-B anchor is the signal that a developer has convinced a very disciplined grocer that the rooftops are real. It also changes what the corner is worth, and what your drive for groceries looks like in year two versus year five.

What you’re actually buying into

Thirty years, $10 billion, 9,000 homes, and roughly 20,000 people at the end of it. Nobody buying today will see the finished version.

The usual risk with a build this long is that today’s open space is tomorrow’s phase four. Here it isn’t: 1,100 acres — a third of the project — sit under permanent conservation easement, including the preserved Cross Timbers Forest and Pilot Knob, the highest point in Denton at 839 feet. Whatever else shifts over three decades, that won’t.

The real risk is resale timing. Buy in phase one and your competition when you sell isn’t just other resales — it’s whatever the builders are discounting that month, two streets over, brand new. That’s a live consideration in any community still under construction, and it’s worth planning around rather than discovering.

Before you go

Nine builders don’t release on the same schedule, and sections open and close constantly. Ask the sales office for the total tax rate on the specific section, in writing. And the first-visit registration rule applies here like anywhere — tell me before you go, not after.

Editor’s note: Still using /images/denton-skyline.jpg; nc-landmark-by-hillwood.jpg is queued in the image manifest. Builder price ranges are from the community’s own site and will drift — worth a quarterly check. If you get the actual tax rate from the sales office, that’s the single most valuable line we could add.