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Earth to Dallas: If You Want the City Core To Grow, Treat the Small Business Landlords Better

By Candy Evans / May 28, 2015 /

…yearn for a house in the suburbs. It’s harder to get a mortgage now, remember, than it was before the Greatest Recession Since the Depression, when these kids were in…

Wages, Home Prices, and Dallas Market Dynamics: An Interview With First American’s Mark Fleming

By Candy Evans / May 21, 2015 /

…sell their homes, especially given the continued low interest rate environment and increased certainty in labor markets. Since the end of the recession in 2009, the market’s capacity to support…

Rooms with a View – For Now: High-Rise Building Boom Could Change The Landscape

By Jon Anderson / May 15, 2015 /

…sad demise of the recession was the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Residences. It was to have been the main tenant in cancelled Victory Tower, the tallest building planned in Victory…

Mortgage Choice Act Would Ease Mortgage Qualifications as Foreclosures Jump

By Jon Anderson / May 1, 2015 /

…may have been exaggerated. These are people who managed to hang on to their home through the worst recession in 80-years, only to lose it now. So what’s the National…

Will Oil Declines Hurt Texas Housing? Not If We Could Export Oil…

By Candy Evans / April 30, 2015 /

…We were barely nicked by the recession. Couple of reasons for that: 1. Our strong energy market kept the jobs going and… 2. Texas by law will not allow homeowners…