Dallas Real Estate News

Breaking: Ebby Halliday, the First Woman of Dallas Real Estate, A Real Estate Legend, Has Left Us

By Candy Evans / September 9, 2015 /

  The grand dame of Dallas Real Estate, Ebby Halliday, who founded one of the largest independent real estate brokerages in the country, has died at the age of 104.

Report Roundup: It’s Not Just The Temps Outside — CoreLogic, Realtor.com, and Local Market Monitor Say Dallas Real Estate is HOT

By Joanna England / September 8, 2015 /

We love graphs and data, especially when those graphs and data show Dallas and Fort Worth at the very tip top. Not only did Realtor.com call the Dallas metro the second-hottest real estate market in America for August (up from third-hottest in July), but CoreLogic has D/FW at the top of its Housing Price Index rankings…

Whole Foods vs. Trader Joe’s: Which Grocery Store Has the ‘Starbucks Effect’ on Home Values?

By Joanna England / September 3, 2015 /

Which upscale grocery has the “Starbucks Effect”: Whole Foods or Trader Joes? That’s what RealtyTrac recently analyzed. If you haven’t heard of the “Starbucks Effect” here’s a little primer: “Homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro appreciated 49.7 percent between January 1997 and December 2013,” Humphries said. “But if you look just at homes in the Dallas-Fort…

Dallas Police and Fire Pension Names James A. Perry Chief Investment Officer

By Joanna England / August 24, 2015 /

After a few negative headlines, including a potential FBI inquiry and some trepidation about some serious losses, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System has created a new position to oversee the $3.1 billion portfolio that funds the retirement income of our city’s first responders. The pension system has brought in Texas Tech University System assistant…

You Can Walk to School From These Amazing North Texas Homes

By Joanna England / August 19, 2015 /

I’m sure you’re already well aware that school is about to start. I mean, if you’ve managed to ignore the commercials, advertisements, and the groans of youths heard all over the state, keep doing what you’re doing. If you’re frantically trying to figure the whole back-to-school rigamarole out, the last thing you want to do…