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Another Metro Area Is Poised to Overtake Dallas-Fort Worth in Apartment Development

By Marlin Weso | August 31, 2022 |

Dallas-Fort Worth is projected to be the hottest metro area in terms of new development, specifically apartment deliveries, in 2022, according to a RentCafé study.

In Burleson, We Found Home on the Range

By Shelby Skrhak | August 31, 2022 |

Some homes just speak to you. They tell you they’re contemporary or comfortable. Sleek or soulful. High-maintenance or homey. But this custom-built Burleson home listed by Eddie Wilbanks with the CW Group of Compass RE Texas didn’t speak to me. It sang. “Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and…

Dallas, We Have a Plan: Zoning Could Get Easier And Faster, Says Director of Planning and Urban Design

By April Towery | August 31, 2022 |

Dallas leaders recently took on the tasks of overhauling a 35-year-old development code, drafting a comprehensive future land use map, and digitizing boxes of paper records. It’s a long, arduous process, but the end result will be well worth it, according to the city’s director of planning and urban design.  Julia Ryan has worked in…

Dog Crate House Asks ‘What The Shih Tzu?’

By Mimi Perez | August 31, 2022 |

In January 2020 we adopted a rescue dog. He had just turned one. He is half Corgi, half Chihuahua, half shepherd, half Lord knows what else. (No, we didn’t major in math.) He is a side-sitter. He has a long, tubular body with exceptionally stubby legs. We named him Hazel.  Do I need to say…

Common Inspection Problems: If This Isn’t Happening at Your House Now, it Probably Will

By Brenda Masse | August 31, 2022 |

When you have spent as much time poking around in other people’s homes as we have, you find that common problems emerge. Both people and Mother Nature tend to affect homes in the same geographical area in the same sorts of ways. In this space where we get to share knowledge from the rarified world…

Dr. Lynn Krebs Joins Texas Real Estate Research Center to Focus on Property Taxes, Rural Land

By Mike Albanese | August 31, 2022 |

The Texas Real Estate Research Center announced that Dr. Lynn Krebs has joined the staff of the TRERC, specializing in rural land and property taxes.  This announcement is a homecoming for Krebs, who began his career as a graduate assistant at the TRERC in 1992 while attending Texas A&M University — the location of the…