Real Estate Market News

How Much Will $200,000 Get You in Texas? Results May Vary

By Bethany Erickson / July 24, 2018 /

It’s no secret that $200,000 won’t get you far in some places — for instance, in Manhattan, it’ll get you 126 square feet of home, which is about half the size of the average one-car garage, a recent analysis by PropertyShark revealed. “While the results were indeed astonishing, we didn’t think there would be such a…

Foreclosure Starts Up, Dallas-Fort Worth Outperforms State in Home Sales

By Bethany Erickson / June 25, 2018 /

Foreclosure starts are up locally, Dallas-Ft. Worth market continues to significantly outperform all other cities in the state when it comes to home sales, and several local cities and towns are among the top places in Texas to live. We take a look at all of that and more in this week’s roundup of real…

Real Estate Slowdown is Real: Surviving the Market Shift

By Seth Fowler / June 5, 2018 /

WOW–tremendous responses and feedback on Part I of this real estate slowdown blog topic from last week.  Thanks so much!  Nice to know people are reading, following and giving thought to #tarrantcountytuesday. Last week we established (with data) that there indeed is a slowdown — or market shift — in the housing market.  One Dirty…

Dallas-Fort Worth Boasts One of Lowest Home Buy-Rent Breakevens

By Bethany Erickson / May 21, 2018 /

It takes about a year and a half for a home to hit the buy-rent breakeven horizon in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, research by Zillow economists for the first quarter of 2018 revealed. The Zillow Buy-Rent Breakeven Horizon measures the amount of time it takes for owning a home to make more financial sense than…

When Gas Leaks Plague Your Neighborhood, What Happens to Home Values?

By Bethany Erickson / March 12, 2018 /

After a fatal home explosion three weeks ago that left one family burying their daughter and two neighborhoods reeling from the shock that the problem has been an ongoing one, the immediate concern was about safety. But now, a little more than a week into the massive, 2,800-customer gas service shutdown in Midway Hollow and…