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Despite Risk of Natural Disaster, Many Texas Homeowners Are Uninsured

By Joanna England / July 21, 2021 /

From Staff Reports Winter Storm Uri was a harsh reminder of the importance of homeowner’s insurance. A study by the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University shows households that are low-income, in nonmetropolitan areas, or without a mortgage are less likely to have homeowner’s insurance. Researchers used U.S. Census Bureau data to…

Innovative Ways to Promote an Open House

By Shelby Skrhak / July 1, 2021 /

Open houses have never been so lucrative. In this hot housing market with low inventory, an open house is no longer about getting an offer on a house. It’s how you get many, many offers on your listing. We’d like to offer a few pieces of expert advice for our real estate professionals out there.…

No Expense Spared in This Waterfront at Forest Home

By Shelby Skrhak / June 30, 2021 /

This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is a breathtaker – the noun form of breathtaking. Now, I’m not confident on the validity of that word but if there was ever a home that needed a noun created for it, it’s this one. This North Dallas…

Report: Dallas-Fort Worth Has Less Than One Month of Housing Inventory

By CandysDirt / April 27, 2021 /

From Staff Reports The median sales price of homes in Texas reached $274,300 in the first quarter this year, an increase of 13.4 percent over the same period last year, according to the 2021-Q1 Texas Quarterly Housing Report released today by Texas Realtors. In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA, the median sales price of a home is a…

Study Says Migrating Millennials Prefer These Two North Texas Cities

By Tommy Cummings / April 5, 2021 /

Who’s surprised to see Frisco and Dallas as havens for Millennials? You shouldn’t be. They’re no longer the places where Millennials’ parents have gone on to settle down. Millennials are settling in the two cities as well. A new SmartAsset analysis makes that point: Frisco ranked sixth and Dallas 11th among top cities where Millennials,…