Economy
We are always making fun of Plano for being so boring: the crime rate up there is so low Forbes named it the safest U.S. city two years ago, the schools are very decent, and the homes pretty and affordable. If you live in Plano your life expectancy is about 81 years, and if you…
See this house? Becky Frey sold 6171 Northaven Road in about three minutes. OK, she listed it 1/15/2013 and it’s pending. So yeah, homes are selling and the atmosphere is a bit frenzied for a January. Mostly January is a thaw in the real estate calendar. But then Kyle Rovinsky wrote me on Facebook with…
Sometimes you just want to go downtown and live that sleek, clean, grown-up style, but not really sure you want to plunk your equity down on condo just yet. This is what so many of my friends, young and old (like me!) are doing: renting a really great condo to test the urban lifestyle. I’m…
Sometimes you just want to go downtown and live that sleek, clean, grown-up style, but not really sure you want to plunk your equity down on condo just yet. This is what so many of my friends, young and old (like me!) are doing: renting a really great condo to test the urban lifestyle. I’m…
Steve Brown jumped on Tuesday’s Case-Shiller report like a kid with a shiny new bike (pay wall? not sure). The report showed Dallas-area home prices up by the largest percentage in more than a decade Dallas home prices rose 5.7 percent in November from the same period a year ago in the monthly Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller…
