Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson is CandysDirt.com's condo/HOA and developer columnist, but also covers second home trends on SecondShelters.com. 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.
After skipping a month, the Oak Lawn Committee saw two projects last night. One was a fine-tuning of the long-delayed addition to The Melrose Hotel and the other is at Fairmount and Cedar Springs (making its third appearance). Since we’ve all waited years for The Melrose to get going, let’s start on Fairmount. Back in…
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We’ve all been glued to stories detailing how the real estate market has avoided doom and roared back to life as quickly as dentists (one needs open houses, the other open mouths). But all the reports of low inventory surround the single-family home market. I’ve yet to see a report that talks about the multi-family…
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Last week, a reader asked what CandysDirt.com thought about the potential for more 20-plus-story high-rises in the Mansion Park area of Oak Lawn. For those that don’t know, I’m defining Mansion Park as being bounded by Oak Lawn Avenue, Cedar Springs Road, Turtle Creek Blvd., and Maple Avenue. It’s an area I’ve covered often, but…
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Depending on your source, the Dallas housing market is either doomed or the outlook is relatively rosy. But which one is right? CoreLogic is the often-quoted source for real estate market forecasting. We’ve all read their pessimistic predictions for the coming year. To review, currently, CoreLogic forecasts that from May 2020 to May 2021, home…
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Back in 2017, I wrote about how outside noise is generated and how it intrudes into homes. At the time, researchers thought there was little chance of utilizing noise-canceling technologies found in headphones on a home-scale. That’s changed. Canceling Noise From Outside Last week, a story in Scientific Reports showcased researchers in Singapore doing just…
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