Dallas

DFW Cities Score High In Nationwide Survey of Best Real Estate Markets of 2016

By Leah Shafer / September 2, 2016 /

Nearly a decade after the housing crisis that sent the U.S. economy into freefall, housing is most certainly back—just look at our DFW market. Citing U.S. Census Bureau data, the New York Times recently reported that sales of new single-family homes nationwide were higher this past July than in nearly 10 years. Nationwide, a company that tracks the…

Interview with an Architect: Richard Davis Creates Spectacularly Luxe DFW Homes

By Leah Shafer / August 22, 2016 /

In our ongoing series, Interview with an Architect, we speak with leading voices in the North Texas architecture community and learn about their work, development issues in our community, and good design practices and principals (you can read the last one here). Dallas architect Richard Drummond Davis is Dallas born, creating some of the most…

In Tackling Homelessness, Jon Anderson Proposes Housing First, Jobs After

By Jon Anderson / August 17, 2016 /

Day by day, many Dallasites inch closer to a financial abyss.  Sometimes it’s self-inflicted, but oftentimes it’s not.  Many who find themselves without a roof simply had a series of misfortunes that were beyond their means or ability to handle. If anyone doubts this, the statistics on the numbers of people who work full time…

Live the Loft Life in These Historic Downtown Dallas Buildings, Part Two

By Leah Shafer / August 5, 2016 /

This is the second installment in a two-part series looking at loft living in historic downtown Dallas buildings. You can read the first post here.  Dallas has a rich history in downtown, with many beautiful structures from the early 1900s. We’re looking at 11 of those buildings, which have been converted, usually after years of abandonment, into hip…

Building a Lifetime of Awards for Greico Modern Homes

By Lifestylist® Suzanne Felber / August 3, 2016 /

It’s been a newsworthy summer for Greico Modern Homes. Their homes are featured in Dwell Magazine this month, and they are finalists in multiple categories of the Dallas Home Builder Association ARC Awards. But the awards that Tom Greico is the most proud of are the ones that he was awarded as a student of…