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.
At last week’s National Association of Real Estate Editors’ conference, unsurprisingly, a lot of time focused on the state of the residential real estate market. The main drivers can be broken down into two large buckets that I’m further breaking down. Part One focused on people and population issues, while this installment focuses on home…
Last weekend, the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) awarded this series discussing state and local property taxes “Bronze” in their Best Series category. While originally published in May 2016, a year later nothing has alleviated our property tax increases. Several weeks ago I wrote a pair of columns (here and here) about how the core…
Listening to experts discuss the state of the US housing market at the National Association of Real Estate Editors’ conference last week, two large forces were evident … people trends and building trends. Put together, we have a good picture of what’s going on in housing. But within these large buckets, there remains a lot…
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A Goldilocks trio of quite different units in the same stack at the Stoneleigh. You’ll recall, the Stoneleigh began life as a DIY building of unfinished shells. Some buyers gravitated to the complete freedom of designing their own interior without the added strife of actually designing a full…
Gosh, how time flies. It seems like only eight years weeks ago that we began this journey highlighting Dallas’ high-rise options for winged home buyers. Now I guess it’s back to grazing through Wednesday broker open houses, snacking on steam-table tacos like Costco on a Saturday for us all. And while I am dubious this…
