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All eyes were on the Dallas City Plan Commission this week as the panel voted to define short-term rentals as a lodging use, thus banning the properties from single-family residential neighborhoods. Plan commissioners, who made the decision in a 10-4 vote following a nine-hour public hearing, said they didn’t take the matter lightly. Some said…
Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty agent Bess Dickson has a listing in University Terrace that’s as charming as she is. University Terrace is an often-overlooked little gem of a neighborhood in East Dallas. It’s tucked off Northwest Highway, in between Mockingbird and Abrams. Dickson pointed out that this home is a true midcentury and the…
In our Christmas Lights 2022 special feature, we spotlight 4941 Trail Creek Drive in Fort Worth.
The real estate industry is perhaps one of the most cutthroat sectors of the American economy. With a growing legion of both boutique and big-name firms, there is considerable competition for both listings and customers. In traditional firms, the struggle to close quotas and stack profits can leave the agent underrepresented, overworked, and unfairly compensated.…
Members of the Dallas City Plan Commission decided in a split vote Thursday to define short-term rentals as a lodging use and limit them to areas where such uses are allowed, thereby prohibiting short-term rentals from residential areas. Over the course of the nine-hour meeting, there was talk of enforcing regulations against “bad actors,” allowing…
The concept of a one-stop shop builder’s design studio is not new: building a custom home is a complicated process that begins with an architectural plan and demands hundreds of structural and design questions, all coming together in critical layers on a tight time schedule. About twenty years ago, builders created the concept of design…
