Dallas real estate

Ticket Giveaway: White Rock Home Tour April 21-22

By Joanna England / April 10, 2018 /

There’s a reason why the White Rock Home Tour is one of the most well-attended tours in all of Dallas — the focus on the East Dallas location and showing off the area’s stout inventory of modern properties is a magic formula. There’s no other tour like it, and its success hinges on the well-organized…

Preston Tower Apparently Wants to Shift Things Away from HOA and to Owners… Even Maintenance!

By Candy Evans / April 6, 2018 /

This came across my desk today from whom, I don’t know. All I know is, it sounds kine of strange. It sounds like Preston Tower, one of two condominium towers in the sizzling hot ‘hood at Northwest Highway and Preston, aka “Behind the Pink Wall”, wants to shift costs away from the HOA and onto…

The Mortgage Report: Rate Hikes Around The Corner?

By Joanna England / February 26, 2018 /

  It’s a busy economic news week, with new and pending home sales reports released, as well as the Fed’s favorite measure of inflation — personal consumption and expenditures. Last week ended on a moderately positive note, but many feel that rate hikes are are coming this year, says our most-trusted mortgage expert, Bob Johnson…

Luxury Apartment Overbuilding May Help Tenants Save for Down Payment

By Jon Anderson / February 20, 2018 /

Reasonably-priced new construction is fast becoming one of those stories parents tell wide-eyed offspring about the good old days. We all know that new apartment construction within a reasonable commute to a job center has been almost all-luxury. In fact, since construction restarted post-Recession, RealPage estimates that 75 to 80 percent of all apartment construction…

White Rock Home Tour Has a Stop so Amazing They Want You to Drive to Garland to See it

By Joanna England / February 8, 2018 /

This year, organizers of the White Rock Home Tour — East Dallas’ premiere modern home tour — are asking tour-goers to go the extra mile (actually six miles if you’re counting). The reason? An amazing time capsule of a home located in Garland that has received only the pickiest of updates. But Garland? White Rock…