Apartment Leasing
From Staff Reports Back at the start of the last decade, the average apartment size in McKinney, Texas, was 937 square feet. And toward the end of the past decade, apartments in this Dallas-Fort Worth suburb were getting smaller — the average size was 20 square feet smaller. But, after time trapped indoors with the…
Read MoreBy Sania Tran Apartment List According to a new report published by Apartment List, Dallas comes in 11th in the ranking of metropolitan areas that are attracting the most renters from elsewhere. The ranking was determined based on the share of inbound searches coming from outside the metro — 39.4 percent of those looking for…
Read MoreIt’s a problem that people with common last names face often: being mistaken for another with the same name and birthdate. But Richardson-based RealPage, which provides tenant screening information to landlords and property managers, ran into trouble when the FTC found their tenant screening software misidentified potential renters as criminals, who then were turned down…
Read MoreAfter some North Texans sell their homes, a significant portion of them rent in the interim before finding their next one. Couple that with the Pew Research Center study alleging that the population of apartment dwellers is growing by leaps, with a 5 percent increase in the last decade — the highest in 50 years.…
Read MoreI’m going to be honest here: Dallas isn’t exactly winning in the luxury lease market. We have a few, a handful, of higher-end lease apartments that, no matter how sparkly the quartzite is in the kitchen, still scream “apartment living.” Things like small closets, boring ceilings, metal return ducts, miniature laundry facilities (with a shelf…
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