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.
In my recent Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide series, I noted that there are a lot of buildings too close to highways for comfort. If I added in all the recent highway-adjacent apartments, none of us would be separated by the requisite six degrees from someone who has a noise problem. What can you do? Technology…
On June 6, WalletHub released the results of a “study” ranking 2017’s Safest States in America. Texas ranked 41 out of 50 states. You may recall a pair of columns I recently wrote detailing overall USA, Dallas and specifically high-rise crime. Both columns showed that Dallas hasn’t been as crime-free as it is today since…
Welcome to Part Seven of CandysDirt.com’s Dallas High-Rise Buyer’s Guide. We’ve covered a lot of turf so far. Thirty-Three high-rises in fact. We began with two columns discussing the merits of buildings that include utilities in their HOA dues (here, here). We moved on to the house porn of Dallas’ most expensive high-rises (here, here) before…
If you forgot Dallas’ torrential weekend rains, Monday’s return certainly brought those memories … flooding back. What’s up with that? It’s not like rain is something new to Dallas. Sure, depending on whether your beliefs are fact- or fiction-based, climate change may be making rains heavier, but we’ve always had deluge-type rain (when we’re not…
The area south of Lovers Lane and east of Greenville Avenue is on fire. Of course anyone looking for a reasonably-priced condo already knows that. The area was built-up in the 1960s with acres of apartments, many of which over time converted to condos. Those remaining apartments are being mowed down for new condo and…
