Dallas real estate news

These Quirky Cool Old East Dallas Gems Are Worth A Look

By Amy Puchaty / July 8, 2019 /

Maybe it’s the history or our love of a renovation done right, but one thing is for sure, these Old East Dallas homes have what today’s buyers want. Location, location, location! Plus, quirky cool interiors to boot. If you seek the exceptional, the extraordinary, the unique, these homes are for you. The best part? They’re…

Millennials Don’t Want Your Big Houses, Unless They Do

By Bethany Erickson / July 8, 2019 /

It started as a drumbeat last March, as Candace Taylor of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Baby Boomers who built million-dollar, large homes, suddenly were finding it difficult to unload them because Millennial buyers (the next market of age to buy a home after Gen Xers) were disinterested in (or couldn’t afford) the homes.…

Banda Group Bolts to Clay Stapp+ Co.

By Joshua Baethge / July 8, 2019 /

Bucking the trend of many agents these days, sisters Mabel and Belinda Banda recently left Compass Real Estate to join Clay Stapp+ Co.  They made the move in late June. “I started off in a smaller brokerage and then went to more of a corporate setting,” Mabel Banda said. “I just realized that a boutique…

Purplebricks Hits the Bricks, Leaves U.S. Market

By Bethany Erickson / July 8, 2019 /

Flat-fee brokerage Purplebricks pulls out of the U.S. market, we have May housing numbers for Texas, and we find out what Dallas-Fort Worth town was named to a list of the 34 richest towns in the U.S. – all in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Purplebricks Hits the Bricks, Leaves U.S. Market Less than…

Midway Hollow Modern on Corner Lot Has Plenty of Perfect Details

By Bethany Erickson / July 7, 2019 /

When Brian Karr of Holz & Stein Custom Homes first started his latest build to hit the market in Midway Hollow, I lived just down the street.  So when I had the chance to walk the previous home with him, and then look at the plans for his new build, I took him up on…