Dallas

Rents Are Higher in North Texas Suburbs, Exburbs

By CandysDirt / February 9, 2019 /

Dallas proper posted moderate rent increases, but it was the area suburbs and exburbs that saw the biggest apartment rents in 2018, RentCafe revealed in a recent report. Flower Mound posted the highest rent at $1,526 (despite only having a minimal increase of 0.1 percent), higher than Farmers Branch and Frisco with average rents of…

Big Thought Has Big Impact On Opportunity Gap

By Bethany Erickson / January 27, 2019 /

We’ve talked about it before — where you live in Dallas can impact and shape the kinds of opportunities you get — or even if you get many of them to begin with. One local organization has been working decades to help close the opportunity gap — through programs that encourage children to use their…

Fossil’s Works of HeART Auction To Benefit Big Thought

By Bethany Erickson / January 23, 2019 /

Have some empty walls and empty shelves you need to fill? Fossil Group will host its seventh annual Works of HeART auction and fundraiser next week, and the money from that piece of art you could pick up there will go to benefit Big Thought, a nonprofit organization working to close the opportunity gap. The…

Four Percent Say Buying a New Home Is a Goal in 2019

By Bethany Erickson / January 21, 2019 /

Who is most likely to have home buying as a goal this year? Will remodeling and home improvement spending continue to grow?  We look at this and more in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Four Percent List Home Buying a 2019 Goal Four percent (about 10 million Americans) said buying a new home…

Dallas-Fort Worth Rank in List of Top 10 Metros Most Recovered from Recession

By CandysDirt / January 20, 2019 /

The two Metropolitan Statistical Areas that encompass Dallas-Fort Worth ranked in a recent list of top 10 metros that have recovered the most from the Great Recession, HSH.com said. But that recovery isn’t all that usual — 27 major cities still haven’t seen home prices recover peak values they were posting pre-recession. But that number…