Fort Worth Dirt
In the 18 years that I have been in the home building and real estate business, I don’t think I’ve seen as many frustrated buyers. It seems as if no one is happy these days. Buyers can’t find the home they’re looking for. They don’t want to get in bidding wars and certainly don’t want…
This was one of those weeks in which I went through all 80 pages of a real estate site (over 500 listings) without finding anything inspiring. Not counting a Westcliff modern which was irresistible until I succumbed to a severe bout of déja vu and realized I had written about it four years ago. By…
Negative twenty-three percent. The total inventory of homes listed for sale in Tarrant County from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022, is down 23 percent. That number, of course, is based on several factors: weather, time of year, the practicality of COVID (is it pronounced “oh-macron” or “ahh-micron” or does anyone care?), low inventory…
Ridglea is young, happening, and hotter than ever. The median age of homeowners is 36. Compare that to 60 for Westover. What’s the draw? Ridglea has a rich inventory of increasingly popular Midcentury ranch-style houses on large lots with mature trees —often with hilltop siting. I hesitate to use the word ” inventory” with 13…
It’s January in Fort Worth and that means one thing … the rodeo! Every mid-January brings the carnival rides, vendors, displays, yummy smelling foods, stinky animals, hideous colored and sequined outfits (seriously how do people with so much money have such bad taste in clothes?), cowgirls, and cowboys. It’s nearly rodeo time in Cowtown! Dickies…
