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It all started with a sketch. Before a shovel of dirt had been turned or a stone put in place, the owners of the 45-acre parcel in Lipan, Texas, had an idea of what they wanted to build that would one day be their homestead. From that sketch, an architect and custom builder made their…
By Ryan Casey Stephens, FPQP®Special Contributor At the time of this writing, mortgage bonds and interest rates are nearing their second-worst levels since February and there’s a lot of room to the downside. We’ve generally enjoyed rates dropping each week since the first week of March, which spurred a burst of activity in our local…
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of responses to CandysDirt.com questionnaires issued to all candidates running for office in the May 6 Dallas City Council election. We’ll be revealing their responses over the next several days. Candidates in the races for Districts 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 did…
Below is a memo filed Friday, April 14, by Dallas Assistant City Manager Carl Simpson in response to questions that arose during a council briefing on short-term rentals held earlier this month. Following the April 4 council briefing, City Manager T.C. Broadnax said staff would research the matter and bring back more data for an…
Is Dallas still a hot luxury market? In February, US News and World Report‘s Housing Market Index ranked Dallas at No. 16 out of the top 100 markets. Dallas also ranked in the top 10 for most resilient markets. Texas has the most Fortune 500 companies, with 11 located in Dallas. With the Goldman Sachs…
Few people are willing to say it out loud, but in the early 1990s, when some of today’s city leaders were in high school, Oak Cliff was a place where parents told their children not to hang out after dark. Now the area covered by Dallas City Council District 1 — including North Oak Cliff…
