Home Building

Dallas Builders Association Hosts Candy Today For Luncheon, Talk on Real Estate Blogging

By Joanna England / August 24, 2016 /

The Metro North division of the Dallas Builders Association is hosting our dear publisher, Candy Evans, for a luncheon today followed by an interesting and fun talk on real estate blogging. If you’ve never seen Candy in person, today’s your chance to hear all of the great dirt on Dallas real estate! We at CandysDirt.com…

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Building a Lifetime of Awards for Greico Modern Homes

By Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber / August 3, 2016 /

It’s been a newsworthy summer for Greico Modern Homes. Their homes are featured in Dwell Magazine this month, and they are finalists in multiple categories of the Dallas Home Builder Association ARC Awards. But the awards that Tom Greico is the most proud of are the ones that he was awarded as a student of…

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Looking for a New House Under $200K in DFW? You’re Gonna Have a Tough Time

By Leah Shafer / June 20, 2016 /

It used to be fairly easy to find a new home for under $200K in North Texas. But according to a recently released report from Metrostudy, first quarter 2016 data shows a “new normal,” reflecting a meteoric rise in starts above $200,000, meaning it’s harder than ever to find a new home in the sub-$200K price range.…

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New Starter Homes in North Texas Now Topping $300K

By Candy Evans / April 29, 2016 /

Bravo for the Fiji Townhomes! Steve Brown tells us, via housing analyst Metrostudy, that brand new starter homes, those still smelling of lumber and sawdust, now top $300,000 in sales in DFW. Which means they are almost 50 percent — not quite, but almost — more than an existing home. The median price for an average…

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Top Ten 2016 Homebuilding Trends From DFW’s Leading Builders

By Leah Shafer / January 22, 2016 /

The 2015 real estate market in Dallas-Fort Worth went down in the books as the best in three decades, and year-end housing construction numbers placed Dallas as one of the country’s top building markets. North Texas is headquarters to some enormously talented (and busy!) builders. We’ve asked the best and brightest among them to tell us their predictions for 2016 homebuilding trends.…

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