Jon Anderson
An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.
Last week, Amazon announced they are seeking proposals from municipalities to build a second headquarters away from their original Seattle location. They expect to spend $5 billion to fully build-out the campus that would house “as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs” and be the same size as the Seattle campus … over the next 15…
Recent developments surrounding the Golf Club of Dallas, formerly the Oak Cliff Golf Club, bring to mind a panel discussion at June’s National Association of Real Estate Editors confab. Seems golf clubs are not as popular with the young as they are with their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. There are several reasons for this, including…
That’s right, thank them. Buy them some chocolates and champagne … maybe a spa day. Why? Because without the over-rotation on apartments that’s happening during this building cycle, your condo would be worth less. Now, this doesn’t hold in the over-saturated, million-dollar end — in fact that part of the market has so much product,…
Are you a good news first kind of person, or do you want the needle before the lollipop? Heck, I’m jetlagged and feeling woozy, so let’s go with the needle. (From the picture above, you guessed that, right?) At last night’s Oak Lawn Committee meeting, there were a trio of projects presented by Masterplan…
[Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in Jon Anderson’s Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide. Read the first two here and here.] First Stop: The Tenth Street and The Bottoms Every neighborhood needs a Lester Houston fighting for it. In Houston’s case, he’s the Cedar Haven Neighborhood Association leader located just southeast of the Zoo. Houston…
