Affordability
The Lone Star State’s multifamily market is competing to lead the nation in rent correction, with apartment renters gaining leverage as vacancy rates tick up and units stay on the market longer. Reliable Cash Home Buyers put together a renter leverage index using apartment listing metrics like vacancy rate, time on the market, and year-over-year…
Homeownership remains elusive for many zoomers as they continue to age into the housing market, but there do appear to be glimmers of hope in the Dallas metro. Almost 9 out of 10 zoomer households in the D-FW area were shelling out rent to a landlord instead of making a mortgage payment in 2023. While…
By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor Takeways No Apparent Connection Between Affordability and Institutional Ownership The administration has said it is “immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single‑family homes” and will ask Congress to codify the policy, emphasizing that “people live in homes, not corporations.” Conceptually, the ban targets private‑equity funds and…
Livability can mean different things to different people, but you’ll often find a lot of the same markers in those housing and lifestyle rankings floating around out there. While we tend to give a good amount of coverage when North Texas cities come in hot, it’s also important to take stock when the Metroplex gets…
Home ownership still remains a challenging goal for many renters in D-FW, but a new study shows that a particular ZIP code in southeast Dallas is one of the most affordable in the country for a neighborhood resident to become a homeowner. MovingPlace looked at the 150 most populous ZIP codes in the United States,…
