Dallas Real Estate News

How the Dallas-Fort Worth Area Ranks in Homeowner Equity

By Tommy Cummings / November 9, 2020 /

Are you equity rich? Do you use finance apps to compare your home value against your mortgage statement balance every day? If you’re a Dallas-Fort Worth homeowner, chances are you’re doing fine and better than others nationally. A recent report by Irvine, Calif.-based Attom Data Solutions estimates that, in the third quarter, 39.5 percent of…

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…