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High Home Prices Appear To Be Doing a Number on America’s Birth Rate

By Charles Grand / September 26, 2025 /

A lot of noise has been made about the housing affordability crisis in the United States. From a real estate perspective, many of the dynamics involved are obviously economic in nature. However, there’s also a very serious existential factor at play: the nation’s birth rate. There appears to be a pretty clear relationship between single-family…

Among Texas’ Wealthiest, Home Defense Dogs Are the Security System of Choice

By Charles Grand / September 11, 2025 /

Home security is becoming more important for super wealthy households in Texas and throughout the United States, leading to increased spending on high-tech security features for luxury properties. Christie’s International Real Estate’s latest annual luxury forecast survey found that around 66% of the real estate agents who responded said their clients were more concerned about…

Live the Dream in Today’s Amenity-Packed Golf Communities

By Elaine Raffel / April 17, 2022 /

There’s no denying our obsession with golf. And if the surging popularity of golfing properties is any indication, many are wanting to live the dream.   

Celebrating Holidays in a Pandemic? Festive Sets Makes Family Dinners Fun

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / December 9, 2020 /

By Whitney JodryFounder, Festive Sets Home has a new meaning and a renewed place in our lives as a result of COVID-19. Over the past nine months or so, home, whether your primary residence or a second home, has been a place of safety and shelter from the pandemic, a source of respite and solitude,…

Planning to Refresh Your Space This Spring? Check Out These Floor and Ceiling Options

By Jon Anderson / March 29, 2019 /

If you’re not in the mood or money for a full-bore kitchen or bathroom remodel, tackling the floors and ceilings can add some wow. Starting at the top, you’d be surprised how crown moulding can really date a home. It seems odd that something thought to be generally unchanging has its own fashionable-to-unfashionable cycle. Given…