Dallas Real Estate News

Don’t Mess With Texas Highways: Demolish a Downtown Dallas Highway to Spur Real Estate Investment? Part I of a Two-Part Series

By Candy Evans / April 16, 2014 /

Dallas is a fascinating place to live right now. Downtown, urbanists are lobbying for the tear-down of a short but squirrely elevated highway they believe is choking urban living, creating a schism of disruption between neighborhoods and sucking up dirt that could be developed as housing units. Go north of the Park Cities to the…

It’s Tax Day! You’ll Benefit From Being a Homeowner With These Deductions

By Joanna England / April 15, 2014 /

It’s Tax Day, and while you’re frantically double checking your forms to make sure you got every single deduction, don’t forget that there are a slew of tax benefits to being a homeowner. We scoured the IRS site and the web to compile this list of deductions many homeowners can claim. For a more exhaustive…

Where do Millennials Want to Live? Austin, D/FW, and Houston Make Top 25 Cities For Ages 25-34

By Joanna England / April 15, 2014 /

Being a Millennial, I think there’s a lot of truth in this listicle from Niche.com, offering insight in the top 25 cities where adults ages 25 – 34 want to live. Some of it is kind of cliche, including New York (Brooklyn, natch) scoring a place at No. 1 , but other spots are accurate…

Dallas Real Estate News: Realtor.com Says D/FW Market is More Accessible, But Redfin.com Says Homes Are Flying Off MLS at Record Pace

By Joanna England / April 15, 2014 /

From the accounts told by Realtors over cocktails, you’d think buying and selling a home in Dallas was a bloodsport. But whether agents, buyers, and sellers are turning around enough offers and counters to die a death by a million paper cuts is under some dispute. That is, if you’re one to believe studies from…

Steve Wolens Owns a Unit at The Athena While Wife Laura Gets Involved in Transwestern Dispute

By Candy Evans / April 14, 2014 /

You know all about the fracas Behind the Pink Wall, the “No” signs all over Preston Hollow. And you know that former Mayor Laura Miller (and former City Councilman Mitchell Rasanksy, both of whom live in Preston Hollow) have asked Jennifer Gates to get another proxy beside City Councilman Lee Kleinman because he isn’t “willing…