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Tarrant County Leads DFW in New Listings as Summer Real Estate Season Heats Up

By CandysDirt / May 16, 2025 /

From Staff Reports The summer home buying and selling season is picking up across North Texas, with Tarrant County seeing the biggest jump in active listings for April 2025 — up 27.3% year over year, according to the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors. Despite the increase in inventory, prices are holding steady. Tarrant County’s…

How Do You ‘Keep Fort Worth Funky’? Building on the Old Merrimac Disco Seems Appropriate

By Shelby Skrhak / April 23, 2025 /

From Staff Reports The Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Urban Land Institute is posing an interesting question for its next event: “Is Fort Worth the next Austin?” As North Texas is expected to grow from 8.2 to 12 million people in the next 20 years, land planners and the like are asking how to tackle…

Green Brick Partners Plans Pilot Point Area Homes, Region Swells

By Charles Grand / March 15, 2025 /

Betting on the metroplex’s continued growth, Green Brick Partners recently bought 567 acres of land in the southwest corner of Grayson County. The residential developer is planning to build 2,100 single-family homes on the property for its master planned Burks Ranch community, which will be located just northeast of Pilot Point by Lake Ray Roberts…

Jonathan Miller: About That Report on Office to Residential Conversions

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / February 23, 2025 /

By Jonathan MillerSpecial Contributor We continue to hear about a commercial office recovery, but that is misleading – it is coming from commercial leasing brokers which is a conflict. Commercial office is often selling for ±30 cents on the dollar as WFH continues to savage rent levels. Yet the high-end office market is doing fine. And now we are seeing…

Here’s Where the New Dallas H-E-B Will Be Located

By Shelby Skrhak / January 17, 2025 /

The moment Dallasites have been waiting for has finally arrived: H-E-B is coming to Dallas. The Texas-based grocer has announced plans for its first location within the city limits — a nearly 10-acre site at the southeast corner of Hillcrest Road and LBJ Freeway, inside the loop. This milestone follows H-E-B’s much-heralded expansion in North…