Jeff Cheney

Frisco, Texas was named the fastest-growing affordable city in the country last year. It’s also the headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys and the PGA of America.

Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney is inside of it all.

His firm is one of the top residential real estate brokerages in the city 30 miles north of Dallas, with a population over 200,000 and growing. An affiliate of Monument Realty, his Cheney Group had sold $1 billion worth of homes in the city through 2025. 

Cheney has been criticized for dominating residential real estate in a city where he holds political power. Before taking office as mayor in 2017, he was a city council member for nearly 10 years. He is up for reelection in May 2026.

“Being an elected official … and being in real estate, I’m probably the most scrutinized person in DFW,” Cheney told the Dallas Morning News in 2023.

He was accused of icing out other real estate agents from the Preserve, a 270-acre single-family home development in the larger Fields development from Fehmi Karahan and Hunt Realty.

On the explicitly political side of real estate, Frisco voters rejected a $160 million bond for a public arts center, including a 2,800-seat performance hall, in a May 2025 election. The bond would’ve been repaid with commercial property taxes and economic development funds and was supported by Cheney and all but one city council member.