Charles Grand
In an already-tight housing market, more Texas families are literally keeping it in the family as parents increasingly choose to transfer their homes to their children instead of putting them on the market. In fact, a recent study ranked the Lone Star State third for family-to-family property transfers in 2025. Deeds.com, an online resource dedicated…
Dallas City Council members are still in recess (or on summer vacation, if you prefer), but planning commissioners were hard at work at City Hall considering a couple of controversial rezoning cases. So what else is new? Staff have also been dealing with a nascent revolt from residents living in single-family neighborhoods built around the…
A group of Dallas residents is up in arms over an administrative decision to phase out alleyway trash pickup, with an online petition calling on city leaders to reverse course, having garnered more than 2,400 signatures in just a few days. The city’s Sanitation Services department is moving to end trash and recycling pickup next…
Heavy rain on Tuesday has apparently led to the temporary shuttering of the Dallas Municipal Court building for at least a week, with city officials disclosing that every floor of the property was impacted by water damage. Early Wednesday morning, the city announced that the court would be closed for the day due to “substantial…
Seniors in Texas are increasingly forgoing homeownership in favor of renting, with the cohort becoming the fastest growing demographic in the Lone Star State over the past decade. Using U.S. Census data from the American Community Survey between 2013 and 2023, the single-family rental platform Point2Homes found that the six largest metro areas in Texas…
