North Oak Cliff
Let’s be clear. There’s nothing illegal about an investor, developer, or home flipper contacting a homeowner with hopes of purchasing a property and repurposing it. A problem arises, however, when predatory investors seek out the elderly or disabled and trick them into making the sale at well below market value under threat of eviction or…
Read MoreA disabled South Edgefield resident whose parents died recently has a title and a will deeding their homes to him but fights a daily battle with real estate investors who want to buy the properties for less than market value. Sometimes they claim that Durwood “Woody” Brodie Jr.’s homes were signed over to them by…
Read MoreFew people are willing to say it out loud, but in the early 1990s, when some of today’s city leaders were in high school, Oak Cliff was a place where parents told their children not to hang out after dark. Now the area covered by Dallas City Council District 1 — including North Oak Cliff…
Read MoreNorth Oak Cliff is indeed getting a Sprouts Farmers Market, but it wasn’t the slam-dunk approval that it appeared to be. A casual observer at Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting probably wouldn’t know that the unanimously approved rezoning request was the result of a hard-fought battle almost two years in the making. The City Plan…
Read MoreMintwood Real Estate broke ground Monday afternoon on a 219-unit multi-family development that will bring affordable and market-rate housing to Dallas in 2024. The Oakhouse development at 900 E. Colorado Blvd. is one of more than a dozen projects recently approved by the Dallas City Council under the Public Facility Corp. financing structure. Oakhouse is the…
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