Dallas real estate news

Midcentury Bungalow Is True Blue Perfection For A First-Time Buyer

By Bethany Erickson / February 5, 2019 /

If it feels like it’s tough to find a great house for a budget-friendly, first-time buyer price under $250,000, it’s not your imagination — it’s getting harder and harder to find a move-in ready, single family home for less than $250,000 in the Dallas area. We’ve even written about the phenomenon a few times. And…

The Turtle Creek Tour of Homes Features Four Amazing Abodes

By CandysDirt / February 4, 2019 /

From Staff Reports The Turtle Creek Association, a non-profit organization whose primary focus is to enhance, preserve, and protect Dallas’ 87-acre Turtle Creek Corridor, provides a special look inside three high-rise residences and one single-family home with their 2019 Tour of Homes on Sunday, April 7, from 1 to 5 p.m. Following the tour will…

Dallas Rents Are Up Year Over Year, but Plano’s Are Higher

By Bethany Erickson / February 4, 2019 /

Dallas rents are up, but Plano’s are higher, the City of Dallas is holding a workshop to help citizens navigate city services, and the latest Realtor confidence survey is out — and we have all this and more in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Dallas Rents Are Up Year over Year Rents in Dallas…

Go Ask ALICE: Who Can Afford The Basics In North Texas?

By CandysDirt / February 3, 2019 /

More than 40 percent of Texans are one even minor catastrophe away from being unable to afford even the most basic needs, the United Way’s report on asset limited, income constrained, employed (or, ALICE) households revealed last week. The most recent ALICE report looks at how many in each state and county lived below its…

We Don’t Know What’s Going On, But Here’s a Story About Jaime Resendez And Where He Lives

By Bethany Erickson / February 1, 2019 /

Pretty much immediately after former WFAA-reporter-cum-political-candidate Brett Shipp posted that it appeared Dallas ISD school board trustee Jaime Resendez didn’t live in his district, we started poking around, too. Probably just like everyone else. And the Dallas Morning News did a few stories. Shipp continuously tweets about it. And we continued to quietly try to…