Dallas Real Estate News

Dallas-Fort Worth Housing Starts are Up, But You’re Going to Pay More For New Construction

By Joanna England / December 14, 2015 /

  More confirmation that Dallas has pricey dirt in this latest report from Metrostudy: While housing starts are up to the tune of 12.4 percent year-over-year and 8.3 percent over last month, few of those have been in more affordable price ranges. More people who would have preferred to buy new construction have turned to…

Dallas Has Pricey Dirt: New Homes Under $200K Are Getting Harder to Find, Economist Says

By Joanna England / November 12, 2015 /

We’re seeing tons of apartment construction, but what about affordable single-family homes? They’re getting more and more rare inside Dallas, especially if you’re shopping for a new home. According to Steve Brown’s story, the first-time homebuyer price range is thinning out in a big way, and if you want a new home, plan on a…

Happy Halloween! Houses of (Photographic) Horrors

By Jon Anderson / October 30, 2015 /

When buyers peruse listings, they rely heavily on the pictures posted by the listing agent. Usually pictures entice, however sometimes they’re scary, wary, or pointless. I know when I look at homes, I expect the pictures to be a storyboard that escorts me through a property. I want to see the exterior, the entryway, and…

Where Are The Most Haunted Houses in Dallas and Fort Worth?

By Joanna England / October 28, 2015 /

We’ve all lived in homes with creaky floors and funny noises, writing them off as the house settling, the wind, or some benign cause. But what if that thump, thump, thump in the attic is something else? Something much more sinister? Are their certain neighborhoods that are more likely to have an unexpected guest of the spooky…

Continuing Coverage of the Renaissance Condominium Garage Collapse: $1m Pool Deck Reno Was Underway

By Jon Anderson / October 23, 2015 /

I was able to reach out and chat with Keith Head, branch manager and associate broker for Coldwell Banker and Renaissance resident about this ongoing story.