Economy
It’s just about that time, and we consulted our Tax Doctor, Rob Wheelock at Property Tax Managers, for help! A lot of homeowners escrow for taxes and insurance and their mortgage company will have paid your property taxes by now, but for those of you that pay them yourselves, pay attention! Taxes for 2013 are…
I first introduced you to this bevelled beauty last May: 4236 Lorraine. It was built for Tim Headington in 2000. But I do not think you can say he created this mansion. It’s more like he birthed it. It was Elizabeth Robertson (and Albert Hill) who nurtured and nannied it, gave it a real coming out…
With an occupancy rate of almost 95%, apartment demand in Dallas/Fort Worth was stronger than anywhere else in the country in 2012 and remained high in 2013. And looks like the sky will only be the limit in 2014: rents will be climbing about 3 per cent. All this good stuff (if you are a…
You can rely on Ebby Halliday Realtors to bring home the bacon, that’s for sure, as the 68-year-old North Texas real estate powerhouse landed a record $6.4 billion in sales for 2013. As you soak in that huge number, consider that many economic forecasts show at least 9 percent growth in sales for the region in 2014, too.
Candy and I have been discussing this very interesting long-form story from BuzzFeed about a man who bought a home in Detroit’s Poletown neighborhood for $500 when he was 23 years old. Since then, protesters, investors, and CEOs have bought up property throughout Detroit’s devastated neighborhoods, demolishing buildings and shrinking the city’s footprint.
