Apartment Leasing

As Rents Are On The Rise, So Are Apartment Sizes, Report Says

By Candy's Dirt / July 1, 2021 /

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…

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Almost 40 Percent of Dallas Apartment Hunters Hail From Elsewhere

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / June 23, 2019 /

By 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…

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RealPage Dinged by FTC for Misidentifying Housing Applicants as Criminals

By Shelby Skrhak / October 18, 2018 /

It’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…

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Renters Won’t Budge on Price and Location According to Apartment Guide Report

By Joanna England / October 18, 2018 /

After 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.…

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The McKenzie on Harvard: Luxury Lease Living FINALLY Gets SHUBS

By Candy Evans / October 3, 2018 /

I’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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