Dallas Realtor News

For Sale on Facebook: Is Opting Out of Hiring a Realtor Hurting Homeowners?

By Joanna England / August 25, 2014 /

After living at 7303 Coronado Avenue for 16 years, Karen Nealy decided to try and test the waters to see if she was ready to sell her home in Lakewood Hills. She’s been looking to move closer to the lake, perhaps Rockwall, with plenty of room to roam around. “We almost bought a house yesterday…

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Thursday Three Hundred: Farmhouse in McKinney’s Historic District Makes Old Look New

By Joanna England / August 14, 2014 /

  Historic homes have many charming quirks that make them popular with people who are prepared to put up with the headaches they sometimes provide. To say that building codes have come a long way since the turn of the century, which was when many homes in McKinney’s historic neighborhoods were built, is a vast…

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NRT Positions Itself to “Out Flank” Zillow/Trulia, Serving as Both Brokerage and Portal

By Joanna England / August 11, 2014 /

It’s a much different model than Zillow/Trulia, but NRT/Realogy will be on pace to not only capture more leads than Zillow, but it has boots-on-the-ground Realtors who can complete sales. This one-two punch is part of NRT’s strategy to “out flank” Zillow, positioning the brokerage as an online and in-person real estate powerhouse, according to Inman…

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Inventory Woes Continue to Affect Home Prices, Sales, Says CoreLogic Report for June

By Joanna England / August 6, 2014 /

With Texas and Dallas clocking in a small uptick in inventory, everyone’s wondering if we the market is poised to stabilize soon and if our time of scarcity and rising prices is over. According to the latest report from CoreLogic, not so much. “Home prices are continuing to rise fueled by ongoing tight supply, low…

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Are Housing Prices Stabilizing? After a Period of Off-The-Leash Growth, Price Increases Are Shrinking, Says Case-Shiller

By Joanna England / July 29, 2014 /

Maybe so, or maybe the market is just taking a breather while the summer heat is on before it grows legs again. According to Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller’s Home Price Index, Dallas has seen the smallest increase in home prices since August of last year. Still, prices are growing, at an albeit slower rate. In fact, all…

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