Real Estate Trends
While across the country approved housing permits remain about 38 percent below pre-recession peaks, Dallas is chugging along, despite certain conditions hampering a more robust effort. In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA, about 5.9 new housing units per 1,000 residents were permitted in Dallas from 2008 to 2018, making the area seventh among the 50 largest…
It may not be a new phenomenon exactly, but grandparents making big moves to be closer to grandchildren have a relatively new term — “baby chasers.” In fact, real estate research firm Meyers Research recently released its Meyers Baby Chaser Index, which indicates that 25 percent of Baby Boomers will likely retire to be near their…
I’d always envisioned the opening line to this story would be, “When I first met Robert Blackman …” but I never did because I didn’t need to. Robert Blackman is with Solvent Realty Group, a flat-fee brokerage who charged me $495 to sell my home – flat. As you may recall, it was under contract…
While the housing market might be lightly tapping the brakes as of late, a new report found that a wave of new buyers is coming — although how robustly they arrive will vary from city to city. While there was an impressive wave of first-time home buyers over the last decade, Zillow did the math…
From staff reports If you want to sell your house in less than a week, you might want to live in the zip codes for Euless, Lancaster, Irving, or Balch Springs, new data from iBuying start-up OpenDoor revealed. The hottest zip codes were gleaned from data from the first three months of 2019 and have…
