Dallas Real Estate News

First-Time Homebuyer? Here’s the Dallas-Fort Worth Area’s Top Cities to Consider, Plus Other Reports

By Tommy Cummings / November 8, 2020 /

Dallas-Fort Worth has six cities on this nationwide list of 40 culled from 185 of the largest in U.S. cities across metrics in four categories: home-market favorability, affordability, livability, and employment.

How Dallas Fared in RENTCafé Adaptive Reuse Study on Large U.S. Cities

By Tommy Cummings / November 4, 2020 /

My favorite HGTV shows are the ones in which apartment hunters size up reconditioned historic buildings that are being turned into modern rental units. You hear a lot of descriptions thrown out, such as “charm” and “character.” Lots of exposed brick and ducts, glass, and concrete. It’s a theme on adaptive reuse, converting old into…

Dallas is Rich in Millennials, Just Not Apartment-Hunting Ones

By Tommy Cummings / November 3, 2020 /

RENTCafé ‘s study showed 40.8 percent of 13 million rental applicants in Dallas from 2015-2020 were millennials.

D-FW, Texas Still Face Low Housing Inventories, Plus Other Reports and Studies

By Tommy Cummings / November 2, 2020 /

In any business, low inventory is a bad thing. It’s a delicate balance of having a product, moving it, and having something to replace it. Just recall looking for toilet paper in the pandemic’s beginnings. Wasn’t that fun? Like it is on a national scale, the pandemic is impacting the Dallas-Fort Worth housing inventory. Prices…

Real Estate Center at Texas A&M Returning to its Original Name

By Tommy Cummings / October 28, 2020 /

On Jan. 1, 2021, the center will return to its given identity – the Texas Real Estate Research Center.