Real Estate Financing

This Irving Home Comes With Special Financing Bonus for First-Time Buyers

By Nikki Barringer / November 11, 2023 /

Oh, hey friends, let’s talk about his little hot dog over in Irving. Irving? Irving. It’s a zero lot line home, 2017 construction, comes with some financing goodies that I’ll get to, and it’s only 10 minutes from Downtown Dallas. Not to mention if you like to travel, DFW Airport is also super close. Hit…

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Could The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Contaminate The Real Estate Market?

By Daniel Lalley / March 14, 2023 /

Last Friday, the world gasped as one of the tech industry’s most prominent banking institutions, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), collapsed under $175 billion in uninsured deposits. This monumental financial failure has only been surpassed in scope by the folding of Washington Mutual, which swiftly led to the financial crisis of 2008. And while we recently…

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Are People Using Bitcoin to Buy Homes in Texas?

By Daniel Lalley / December 16, 2021 /

A historical hotbed for high-tech innovation, Texas leads the country in everything from space travel to telecommunications. In 2017, the Lone Star State found itself fronting a futurist movement in using Bitcoin to buy homes. The first purchase, brokered by Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty in Austin, set the stage statewide for revolution in real estate…

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Four United Development Fund Execs Charged by Feds For Alleged Years-Long Ponzi Scheme

By Candy Evans / October 25, 2021 /

Two of the Indicted are Highland Park Residents Kyle Bass Takes to Twitter For Vindication Prosecutors in the Northern District of Texas have taken definitive action against four executives with United Development Funding, the Grapevine-based real estate investment trust the FBI raided in February of 2016. Two of the four are Highland Park residents who…

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How to Keep Your Home if You’ve Been Furloughed or Laid Off

By Joanna England / January 14, 2019 /

To all the talented journalists and Dallas Morning News employees that were handed pink slips recently: I know how overwhelming this feels. When I was suddenly laid off from the same publication in 2009, I felt unmoored and somewhat lost. You will find a way to move on, though, so hang in there. The advice offered…

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