U.S. Census Bureau
Once again, Dallas-Fort Worth’s suburbs earned high rankings in a liveability list. In Niche’s recent rankings of its 2021 Best Cities to Live in America, Dallas and Fort Worth didn’t exactly dominate. Dallas ranked 84th out of 228 cities. Fort Worth ranked 115th. Conversely, Plano ranked seventh and Richardson 12th. Irving is 41st, Denton 54th,…
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Nearly half (45 percent) of female-led households spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing as compared with 36 percent of their male counterparts, according to Zillow’s analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data.
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The good news about the boom in new and existing home sales in Dallas just keeps rolling in. It won’t last forever, of course, but let’s enjoy it while we have it. Sales of new single-family homes increased for the third consecutive month, rising to their highest level since 2006. Between June and July, sales…
Read MoreFor people looking to Internet rankings when searching for their next place to live, 24/7 Wall St. produces some solid information. As opposed to some list-makers, they actually do real research with scientific data and come up with interesting findings. They recently reviewed data on the 550 American cities with populations of 65,000 or more (measured by…
Read MoreWith Western Texas Intermediate oil hovering around $45 a barrel, folks have been speculating about new home construction in Midland-Odessa and how layoffs and budget cuts might affect the spectacular boom of the past few years. But while economists might raise a red flag, local homebuilders say pent-up demand and a more diversified economy are…
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