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Fall Is Here, And There’s Plenty of Home Maintenance To Do, No Matter the Temperature

By Brenda Masse | September 27, 2025 |

It’s officially fall in North Texas, and if you’re like me, your Halloween decorations have been up since Labor Day and pumpkin-everything has long since been broken out. It’s a particularly exciting year because the first weekend of fall will see highs in the 80s. I may just bust out a sweater! Anywho, the changing…

Kessler Park or Hollywood Hills? Enjoy Treetops and Terraces in This Refined Ranch-Style Home

By Shelby Skrhak | September 26, 2025 |

To know this sprawling white farmhouse-style ranch at 1419 Yakimo Dr. is to know the unique East Kessler Park neighborhood it sits in.  The Guggenheim Acres enclave is an ultra-hilly, wooded landscape of eclectic homes that have been purpose-built since its founding in 1937. What does that mean — “purpose-built”? Here, homes were developed organically…

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…

Rowlett Proves There Are Levels To Luxe Lakeside Living

By Daniel Lalley | September 26, 2025 |

While George Straight sang about “Ocean Front Property” in Arizona, you could make the same gag about North Texas. As one of the more landlocked regions of Texas, the best we can offer is amazing lakeside living. However, when you factor in some of the best builders and most beautiful lakes in the world, our…

The Listing Is Real — Bring Just a Toothbrush to This Arlington Heights Bungalow

By Joy Donovan | September 26, 2025 |

The listing said it was “move-in ready.” Was it? The social media posting read “turnkey.” Are you sure? Here’s the real deal. A house that has had the walls painted, the bathroom tile updated. And the new owner only needs to bring is some shirts, some pants, some shoes and a toothbrush. Open the door…

You’ll Find Six of Tarrant County’s Finest at the 2025 Fort Worth AIA Homes Tour

By Eric Prokesh | September 26, 2025 |

This week end’s 2025 Fort Worth AIA Home Tour offers an intriguing panoply of projects of varied architectural styles and scope. The six commissions, identified by the letters A-F, range in scale from interior renovations to complete top to bottom new construction through a wide swath of Fort Worth. HOUSE A BRIGATI, PLLC | LINDSEY BRIGATI BOREN, AIA…