Year: 2024

Lisa Peters Picks: The 5 Best Homes of the Year

By Brenda Masse / December 29, 2024 /

When you get to write a column as chock full of CandysDirt.com’s signature content — house porn — as our Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by the inimitable  Lisa Peters, Senior Loan Officer at First Horizon, you get the enviable task of writing about some of the most interesting homes on the North Texas market.…

City Hall Roundup: The ForwardDallas 2.0 Public Engagement Success Story 

By April Towery / December 29, 2024 /

 Voters spoke at the ballot box in November by demanding transparency and accountability from their elected officials, and there’s little doubt they’ll show up again in May when up to 10 sitting council members will be vying for another term at the horseshoe.  Residents saw this year how their voices mattered. They showed up en…

Corporate Relocations to D-FW Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2024

By Charles Grand / December 29, 2024 /

The Lone Star State’s business-friendly policies have been a driver of corporate relocations to D-FW in recent years, but it appears that momentum has been lost with the number of in-bound companies returning to pre-pandemic levels. Citing data compiled by the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas Business Journal clocked 21 corporate relocations to D-FW last year,…

Give the Gift of History with This Timeless M Streets Bungalow

By CandysDirt / December 28, 2024 /

Imagine unwrapping the ultimate Christmas gift this year: a piece of history, carefully restored and beautifully updated, right in the heart of the beloved M Streets. The rare M Streets bungalow at 5904 Ellsworth Avenue — built in 1935 and held by the same family for nearly 90 years — has been reimagined with a…

Is $600K The New Starter Home Price, Or Is It a Tear Down? It Depends …

By Karen Eubank / December 28, 2024 /

Dallas house prices have continued to rise, and there’s really no end in sight. It amazes me weekly when I search for our Saturday listing, which used to be in the $600,000 price range until we realized we had to expand our search up to $899,000 to show you anything worthwhile. It made me think…