Dallas Real Estate News

Is House Porn Just as Good on The Air as it is Online? Listen to Candy Two Ways Today!

By Joanna England / June 21, 2014 /

I love listening to Candy talk about home trends, luxury real estate, and all the celebrity scuttlebutt she picks up from her amazing cadre of sources. If you need a fix of celebrity real estate right this very second, check out this week’s Red Zone podcast from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University…

Charles Hicks Buys 3.85 Acres on Forest Lane From Unity Church of Dallas Campus For 18-Home Planned Development

By Joanna England / June 19, 2014 /

Unity Church of Dallas has sold almost 4 acres of its 11 acre campus on Forest Lane to Charles Hicks. Hicks plans to build 18 custom homes on the site, called 6600 Forest Estates. This is huge news because unless you plan a teardown, this area of North Dallas is almost completely built out. Until…

Millennials Want an Urban Life Today, But What About After They Have Kids?

By Joanna England / June 18, 2014 /

This is a theme that was repeated over and over at the National Association of Real Estate Editors spring conference. With the Millennial generation becoming the newest cycle of homebuyers, we have to wonder what phase of their lives will influence trends in real estate the most. This story in the Washington Post really summarizes…

New Continental Bridge Park Opens Ahead of New Cities Summit in Dallas

By Joanna England / June 16, 2014 /

The Continental Bridge was once the easiest way to get from downtown Dallas to West Dallas if you didn’t want to cross at Fort Worth Avenue/Beckley. But when the Margaret Hunt Hill bridge opened, the Continental Viaduct was all but obsolete. So what do you do with aging infrastructure and a growing urban population that…

Living Small and Loving it: B.A. Norrgard Wants to Build a Tiny House Community in Dallas

By Joanna England / June 9, 2014 /

I’ve been following B.A. Norrgard’s tiny house adventures on her blog, and while it is at times funny and fascinating at others, her process of “lifestyle repackaging” has been thought-provoking for the most part. Norrgard, once a paralegal at a Dallas firm, was disaffected with her highly consumer-oriented life and wanted to live in a…