Dallas real estate news

Waterford Parks Traditional is Living Big on a Tidy Floorplan

By Joanna England / September 25, 2015 /

Sure, when you build a new home, you’re picking out all the hardware and flooring and paint, but sometimes it takes a year or so to get it just right. If you want a new home and don’t want to deal with the seemingly endless list of here-and-there projects that it takes to make a property…

WalletHub Doesn’t Think Dallas is The Best Place to Retire, But it’s Not Bad

By Jon Anderson / September 25, 2015 /

WalletHub released its 2015 list of the best and worst places to retire based on 23 metrics across the 150 largest cities in the USA. Texas is a mixed bag. Unsurprisingly, six of the top 10 are in Florida (4) and Arizona (2) – states with no income taxes and long-time targets of the retirement…

Guardian Angel: Ricky Phillips is a Loan Officer by Day, Home Decor Store Owner by Night

By Joanna England / September 23, 2015 /

Do you use both sides of your brain? This month’s Guardian Angel Ricky Phillips does. Not only does he love the problem-solving, number-crunching aspect of being a mortgage officer, but he’s also deeply smitten with the color-coordinating, detail-minding aspect of owning his own interior design business. Methinks that Phillips would be a great one-stop-shop for…

Dallas City Council Votes For Demolitions Delay in Effort to Slow Loss of Historic Architecture

By Joanna England / September 22, 2015 /

We’re still reeling from the loss of 10300 Strait Lane, a gorgeous Bud Oglesby-designed modern on one of the most beautiful streets in Dallas, so you can imagine how heartening it was to read Robert Wilonsky’s post announcing that the Dallas City Council voted to approve a demolition delay. The new law is intended to…

New Project Announced in The Cedars Uses [SURPRISE!] Shipping Containers, But Are They Over?

By Joanna England / September 21, 2015 /

I know that not everyone is going to agree with me, but I’ve been thinking about this ever since PV14 was built: Shipping containers as housing is over. So over. When Michael Gooden was hoisting the long metal boxes in the air that would make up his shipping container project in Old Lake Highlands that…