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If you’re a fan of the farmhouse aesthetic of Chip and Joanna Gaines and historical homes, a 1910 home minutes from downtown Waco and the popular Silos has come on the market this week. We have the details over on SecondShelters.com.
Built in 1966, the Athena has plenty of outdated condominiums waiting for a renovator’s sledgehammer. What’s doubly great is the units are big and the prices relatively small. As I write about new apartment buildings crowing at their 900-square-foot average unit size, I think about the older buildings. For example, the average unit size at…
Last Sunday, one of those typical, Texas, false harbinger of spring days, I waited outside 1460 West Allen, one of three open houses from the portfolio of 6th Avenue Homes. Children on bicycles pass, followed by three guys with contrasting day glow hair and plentiful piercings. Minutes later a 1920s open coupe cruised by. In…
As Congress and President Trump continue to argue the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the uncertainty is affecting Dallas Independent School District classrooms, officials told the board of trustees yesterday. “It’s out of our control,” said superintendent Michael Hinojosa. “They (Congress) worked on immigration for 10 years, without consensus.” He added…
As we’ve begun to look at homes priced $100,000 and under, one thing has remained constant — move-in ready homes in this price range tend to be on the smallish side. This week, we look at a College Park home with more square footage, but the price tag does reflect that.
Metrostudy’s 4Q17 survey ranks Dallas-Fort Worth the top new home market in the nation. According to the report, DFW builders started 33,243 homes in the past twelve months, of which 8,561 started in the fourth quarter. The survey, which compares 4Q17 to 4Q16, reveals new home starts jumped by a whopping 16.9 percent — a…
