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The Fed’s Rate Cut Is Welcome, But Is It Enough To Reinvigorate the Housing Market?

By Charles Grand | September 18, 2025 |

The Federal Reserve lowered the benchmark interest rate for the first time in nine months on Wednesday, offering a glimmer of hope to homebuyers and industry professionals who have been waiting on the central bank to make things easier on borrowers. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members voted 11-1 to implement a quarter basis point…

Bringing a Munger Place Prairie Four-Square Back to Its Beautiful Roots

By Karen Eubank | September 18, 2025 |

This historic Munger Place Prairie Four-Square once looked like the house all the kids avoid at Halloween. Scary doesn’t even begin to describe the dilapidated home, and I think most of the neighbors assumed it could not be saved. Then Zak and Beth Mailey came along. The Maileys are not new to restoration. In fact,…

How Local Real Estate Groups Are Stepping Up for North Texas Giving Day and Every Day

By CandysDirt | September 18, 2025 |

Today is North Texas Giving Day, the nation’s largest community-wide giving event, but it’s not just about one community — it’s about thousands. This year, nearly 3,600 nonprofits are participating across 20 counties in North Texas — the most in the event’s 17-year history. In 2009, the Communities Foundation of Texas created the event to…

Timeless Irving Hackberry Creek Home Combines Beauty and Function

By Brenda Masse | September 17, 2025 |

What more can you ask for than a beautiful, move-in ready home in one of DFW’s most coveted master-planned communities for a very competitive price? That’s what we’re exploring with today’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters, Senior Loan Officer with First Horizon. First, the neighborhood: Hackberry Creek in Irving offers beautiful…

Suzanne Felber Opens Up Her Oak Cliff Home That’s Long Inspired Curiousity for Estate Sale

By Charles Grand | September 17, 2025 |

There’s a white, Cuba-inspired two-story on W Clarendon Dr. that Oak Cliff residents have always been curious about. Is it a residence; is it a building? Both, actually, and it’ll be open for the first time this week when the owner, housing advocate and Lifestylist® Brands founder Suzanne Felber, hosts a three-day estate sale. But…

Drop What You’re Doing to Attend Today’s Dwell with Dignity Book Signing and Pop Up Shop

By Elaine Raffel | September 17, 2025 |

This afternoon’s Dwell with Dignity Book Signing, featuring superstar designers Chad Dorsey and Philip Thomas Vanderford, is worth every bit of schedule-shuffling.