Dallas Growth
We all know the city needs to grow. Unfortunately, all too often the NIMBY response is that development and density would be much better “over there” somewhere. What if it could? What if development goals could be achieved at the same time lower density could be selectively preserved? There’s this legal thing called Transferable…
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…
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…
So we know what the experts say — expect 2017 to be a more “normal” real estate market in North Texas and across the nation, with continued softness at the luxury level. Recall it was just in September that Starlight Capital chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht said you couldn’t give away homes in the rich…
When many of us hear “no” we double down until we get a “yes” or at least a “maybe” response. After years of discussions on development being drowned out by the often knee-jerk Not-in-My-Backyard NIMBYs, the YIMBYs are gathering their voice. “Yes in My Backyard” is a movement that advocates for intelligent urban design that…
