Dallas

Thursday Three Hundred: Midway Hollow Cuties is Open and Updated

By Joanna England / March 6, 2014 /

Let’s just clarify for clarity’s sake: Dallas home prices are breaking records, y’all, and if you want a great home inside the loop, you’re going to pay for it. There was quite a debate in the comments of our Tuesday Two Hundred, a super-cute Craftsman home in Sunset Hill that is priced at $239,000. Some…

Time to Double Down? North Texas Cities Ripe For Investment, Says Forbes

By Joanna England / March 5, 2014 /

We wanted to get some boots-on-the-ground perspective from North Texas Realtors after Forbes named Fort Worth-Arlington and Dallas-Plano-Irving as the top two “best buy cities,” or areas in the U.S. where buying a home is a good investment. Forbes teamed up with Local Market Monitor to measure the “equilibrium home price,” which strips away several…

How Much of Museum Tower is Under Contract? MT Marketing Flier Says 25%, But D-Mag Editor-at-Large Tim Rogers Says 13%

By Joanna England / March 4, 2014 /

This morning when I was doing my regularly scheduled RSS blog-reading binge, I noticed this post from D Magazine’s Tim Rogers asking just where Museum Tower officials came up with the figures in their recent marketing email:

Buying a New Range? Find Somewhere You Can Try Before You Buy, Says Suzanne Felber

By Joanna England / March 4, 2014 /

By Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber I hate my range. Cooking on it is something I do almost every day when I’m home, and every time something cooks unevenly or dinner burns I regret spending a lot of money for something I had no knowledge of. When I bought the Home Idea Factory, it truly was an old factory…

Texas is Off to a Rollicking Start in 2014, With Home Prices Hitting New Highs

By Joanna England / March 4, 2014 /

CoreLogic’s newest HPI report released today showed that Texas real estate professionals have good reason to blame their busy days on the hot market. Home prices in Texas are at new highs (yes, higher than pre-bubble manic market highs!), with January 2014 up 10.1 percent over a year ago, and home prices up 1.2 percent…