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We Ship This: Fall in Love With Your Home Sweet Shipping Container

By Nikki Barringer | August 25, 2020 |

This little home we’re about to tell you about? It’s more than just clever. It’s cool. It’s sleek. Sophisticated. Stylish. And the price point is – to our untrained shipping-container-purchasing-and-converting eyes – ridiculously low. I mean, $225,000 for a trendy, new home? Shockers. Let’s start with the bones on this one. Brownstone Real Estate Group’s…

Which Northern Dallas Suburbs Are Still Diamonds in The Rough?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor | August 24, 2020 |

By Daniel Hightower SmithContributor The coronavirus pandemic has set in motion a work-from-home experiment on a large scale, liberating urban dwellers to consider farther-flung suburbs for a home base. Being close to inner-city downtowns is not as meaningful as it once was, leaving some considering which northern suburbs of Dallas have the most value for…

A Modern Colonial That Exceeds Every Expectation

By Karen Eubank | August 24, 2020 |

Never judge a book by its cover. I was sure the façade of this modern Colonial would predict a comparably traditional interior. Boy, was I wrong. While I do love a traditional home, I delight in the unexpected, and this house delivers that on multiple levels. When the present owners purchased this home, it was…

Finding The Right Home is The Battle For Texas Homebuyers

By Joanna England | August 24, 2020 |

People are definitely buying homes right now — the numbers don’t lie. But finding the right home is a struggle. That’s definitely related to inventory, which is incredibly low. Overall, Texas homebuyers cited difficulty in finding the right property in the 2020 Texas Homebuyers and Sellers Report just released by Texas Realtors. “This report provides…

Dallas Answers Granny Flats Before Asking The Right Questions

By Jon Anderson | August 24, 2020 |

Back in 2018, Dallas enabled Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), also known as Granny Flats – essentially a second unit on the same lot as a single family home (but not a duplex, heavens no, not that!). At the time, I thought it was a great step to undo 80 years where such units were banned…

Former Corporate Accountant Loren Hall Teams Up With Phillip Murrell

By Joshua Baethge | August 24, 2020 |

Compass Real Estate Broker Phillip Murrell announced that Loren Hall would be joining his team.  Though Phillip Murrell admits that he was not initially looking to grow his group — the added stressors of COVID-19 and the corresponding shelter-in-place orders made the timing less than optimal — but after meeting former corporate accountant Loren Hall for coffee, he said…