Home Building
When I first met luxury home builder Chad Hudson almost 10 years ago in Dallas, he told me he was both a perfectionist and a planner. Perfectionists make for great home builders, and planners make for people who achieve their dreams. So it was no surprise to hear that Finmark Construction partnered with Hudson as…
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Leave it to New Leaf Custom Home founders Scott and Melissa Powell to take the concept of full-service and elevate it to a whole new level. Their latest venture, Pools by Design, takes a design-centric approach to outdoor living, creating swoon-worthy spaces as fashionable as they are functional.
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Landsea Homes Corporation, a publicly traded residential homebuilder, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Antares Homes, a Dallas-Fort Worth-based homebuilder, for $232.2 million in cash. The transaction, once completed, will expand Landsea Homes’ presence in North Texas. “Since entering Texas in 2021 and purchasing additional lots in August…
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Dallas Development Services is looking to increase the builder permit fee in an effort to recoup a $22 million departmental deficit. The department collects about $28 million in revenue each year, but has an operating cost of about $50 million, Development Services Director Andrew Espinoza told the Dallas City Council’s Economic Development Committee on Dec.…
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Dallas Development Services appears to have overcome a bad reputation of delivering building permits in a slow, inefficient manner that costs builders money and backlogs the city’s housing availability — just in time for state legislation mandating that they need to move even faster. Members of the council’s Government Performance and Financial Management Committee and…
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