Dallas real estate news

Thanks to Donations and Volunteers, Mosaic Family Services Provides a Transitional Home For Women and Children Escaping Human Trafficking

By Joanna England / July 3, 2014 /

Thank goodness for organizations like Mosaic Family Services. This nonprofit, which runs Mosaic House, helps people escape challenging and abusive situations, victims of human trafficking and exploitation, and refugees. The organization just moved to a new facility, and thanks to volunteers and generous donations, has been able to provide a beautiful, calm, and safe place…

D.R. Horton’s Bryan Place, Continued

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2014 /

This is the thing about dealing with these big huge home builders: it’s hard to get hold of the corporate folks. My first phone calls got me to someone who cannot be quoted because this is a news blog, all information has to come from corporate. But I did find out that the Exall townhome…

Dallas Real Estate News: Report Shows Condo Sales are Fastest Growing Segment of Texas Housing Market

By Joanna England / July 3, 2014 /

Condos are hot and getting hotter, according to the Texas Condominium Mid-Year Sales Report from the Texas Association of Realtors. Statewide, condo sales rose an average of 10.5 percent year-over-year between the months of January and May of 2014. In San Antonio condo sales were up 18 percent, followed by Austin at 14 percent, Houston at…

Is D.R. Horton Being a Good Neighbor at Bryan Place? We Think Not So Much

By Candy Evans / July 3, 2014 /

A reader alerts us to the building  DR Horton is doing a less than stellar job of corporate responsibility at their Bryan Place development called “Exall Townhomes”.

Brandon McCarthy’s Uptown Loft Will Give You a 360 Degree View of Friday’s Fireworks Display

By Candy Evans / July 2, 2014 /

Whoa, this is one of those units that deserves the “O” word. Or maybe I should say, the “A” word. This is the Uptown loft of Arizona Diamondback right-handed pitcher Brandon McCarthy and his wife, Amanda. And the agent, darling Nancy Dunning at Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s, is not using broker babble when she says “one…