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It all started with one neighbor in the Preston Hollow/Midway Hollow area excitedly telling others via social media that a cashier at Central Market told her that 100 percent, no doubt about it, the Sunfresh Market site on Northwest Highway and Midway Road that was one of the sites H-E-B (also the parent company of…
The North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Beckley Estates receives a fair amount of attention as an up-and-coming area of Dallas. But its southern neighbor, Cedar Oaks, is a hidden gem where buyers can find character-filled, affordable houses from the 1940s and 1950s. The famous wandering peacocks of Beckley Estates make their appearance here, too, among…
Mary Mapes is the CBS News producer who lived the life fantastic as Dan Rather’s principal producer for 60 Minutes. In 1999, their collaborative work culminated in a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for an investigative report on abuses in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. But Mapes and Rather, as you may recall, are also known…
The Urban Land Institute held its 2016 Fall Meeting in Dallas last week with a tizzy of tours, sessions, networking events, and dinners. In my experience, the biggest benefit of a conference is in the networking. But the content at this one also covered a large array of subjects, from community engagement to redeveloping skyscrapers, to global trends, to niche discussions…
For people looking to Internet rankings when searching for their next place to live, 24/7 Wall St. produces some solid information. As opposed to some list-makers, they actually do real research with scientific data and come up with interesting findings. They recently reviewed data on the 550 American cities with populations of 65,000 or more (measured by…
Interest rates rose like zombies from the grave last week, so it’s a topic that’s definitely buzzing in real estate circles. In this week’s installment of The Mortgage Report with BobMortgage we find out why rates went up. You may know him as Bob Johnson, the senior mortgage advisor at Wallick & Volk, the nation’s oldest privately-held…
