Dallas real estate news
Of course, not every home will look like a page out of a magazine when it’s listed, but sometimes you don’t need a home to be dressed up for a trip down the red carpet to see its potential. That’s how I see 4104 High Summit Drive, a four-bedroom ranch in Glen Cove East that…
While the Midland/Odessa area is leading the rest of our great state in job growth, Texas is adding jobs at a quicker clip than most other states, and beats the national average easily. That’s according to the July figures from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University’s “Monthly Review of the Texas Economy.” Coming…
Seriously, why wouldn’t you want to sleep in the same building Jon Voight did? That’s what I thought! If you aren’t already sold, today we have a gorgeous condo to show you inside 1505 Elm St., a building beautiful enough to attract a star-studded sleepover! For rent is Unit #502 inside this luxury highrise. It’s…
Two families in my neighborhood, Casa View Haven, recently announced that they’d be selling their modest post war-traditional homes and heading for the ‘burbs. Sure, that’s an option, but sometimes families choose to invest in an addition to accommodate growing families rather than packing up and moving.
Of course, there are pros and cons for both choices. Sometimes the investment in building onto a home isn’t recouped. And sometimes you can’t sell your existing home in time and end up carrying two mortgage payments. And sometimes, too, Homeowners Associations and deed restrictions can keep you from adding more space.
Michael Staten, a Dallas architect and senior project manager at CBRE, considered adding on to his Lake Highlands home. Instead, Staten and his family of four moved to Richardson. Why?
(Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of our “Outside the Frame” series that offers the insights of Dallas’ leading real estate photographers on subjects that are both important and often controversial in the industry. Check out our first installment here.)
Today we have Richard Sharum, founder of one of the area’s most popular real estate photography firms, Shoot2Sell . To read Sharum’s perspective on how much editing is ethical for listing photos, jump.
