Charles Grand

City Hall Roundup: Dallas Wings Facility, DHA Advances Project

By Charles Grand / September 28, 2025 /

Fall is here, the budget and property tax rate are finalized at Dallas City Hall, and all hell seems to be breaking loose. Might as well distract yourself with a couple of real estate stories from this past week. New Dallas Wings Practice Facility Breaks Ground A ceremony was held on Friday to commemorate the…

High Home Prices Appear To Be Doing a Number on America’s Birth Rate

By Charles Grand / September 26, 2025 /

A lot of noise has been made about the housing affordability crisis in the United States. From a real estate perspective, many of the dynamics involved are obviously economic in nature. However, there’s also a very serious existential factor at play: the nation’s birth rate. There appears to be a pretty clear relationship between single-family…

Talk of Moving Dallas Homeless Shelter Out of Downtown Raises Eyebrows

By Charles Grand / September 25, 2025 /

The future of one of the city’s main homeless service providers seemed suddenly up in the air this week following an unofficial meeting about possibly relocating the service site to Dallas Executive Airport. While nothing came out of the Tuesday meeting policy-wise, word had been circulating the day before about a push to move The…

Determined Boomers Could Keep Housing Inventory Scarce for Years

By Charles Grand / September 23, 2025 /

I’m sure everyone here has heard the expression “aging in place,” which refers to the growing number of seniors opting to stay in their current homes. This trend has limited the number of existing homes for sale, and a recent survey suggests the imbalance is going to get worse. Roughly 61% of baby boomers now…

New Community in Celina Will Add Hundreds of Homes to Growing Suburb

By Charles Grand / September 22, 2025 /

Some of the homes that will be on offer at a new community in fast-growing Celina were showcased just last week, with developer Rockhill Capital & Investments announcing the debut of The Heights at Uptown Celina. The first phase of development is underway and comprises 236 of the 380 homes ultimately planned for the community,…