Year: 2024

Garages, Backyards, And Fireplaces Top Zillow Surfers’ Searches in 2023

By CandysDirt / January 2, 2024 /

In San Antonio, Texas, home shoppers who used Zillow were looking for eat-in kitchens in their dream home. Considering the Alamo City’s obsession with food and restaurants, it’s not surprising. However, according to Zillow’s 250 billion searches on the real estate listing platform, Americans who are interested in buying a home want garages, backyards, and…

The Architecturally Significant Luxury Homes of 2023 Prove an Important Point

By Karen Eubank / January 1, 2024 /

We always do a year-end review of posts and talk about what engaged our readers. This year for the Monday Morning Millionaire column, it was architecturally significant historic homes. We dig into research and analytics, do a lot of speculating, and also talk about what resonated with each writer. It allows us to revisit stories…

Minneapolis Abolished Single-Family Zoning But is That The Answer to More Affordable Housing?

By April Towery / January 1, 2024 /

Before you get angry, literally no one — not the interim planning and urban design director nor District 1 Councilman Chad West — is proposing that single-family zoning be abolished citywide in Dallas.  But one major U.S. municipality did just that, and a few years into the movement that allowed duplexes and triplexes to be…

NexMetro Communities Brings Built-to-Rent Avilla Boat Club Development Near Eagle Mountain Lake

By CandysDirt / January 1, 2024 /

NexMetro Communities is bringing a new built-to-rent development to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The luxury leased home developer opened its 15th neighborhood in the region with Avilla Boat Club, a 107-home gated rental home community located in northwest Fort Worth’s coveted Eagle Ranch master plan. “Avilla Boat Club has an early interest list of more than 200 people seeking…