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From Facebook: Is It a Market Cool Down, or Click Bait?

By Bethany Erickson / August 9, 2018 /

Ever since reports that home sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth market (and nationally, too) slowed in June, there has been a steady flow of stories proclaiming doom for the market. But is it really a cool down? For our July 27 Friday Question, we took to Facebook and asked our readers what they thought about…

From Facebook: Who Can We Blame for the Carpet in the Bathroom Trend?

By Bethany Erickson / August 2, 2018 /

Carpet in the bathroom. For us, a discussion about it started with a picture someone sent for a folder I keep of random godawfulness for a future Wednesday WTF piece. I showed it to Executive Editor Joanna England, because this is how we torture each other during the workday. One thing led to another, and…

From the Archives: 6 Ways Millennials Are Changing Real Estate Business

By Leah Shafer / December 23, 2015 /

For years, millennials have largely been thought of as renters, not buyers, but that has changed. Millennials, born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, now represent the largest group of homebuyers in the U.S. at 32 percent, taking over from Generation X, according to the 2015 National Association of Realtors (NAR) Home Buyer…

6 Ways Millennials Are Changing Real Estate Business for Everyone

By Leah Shafer / March 11, 2015 /

For years, Millennials have largely been thought of as renters, not buyers, but that has changed. Millennials, born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, now represent the largest group of homebuyers in the U.S. at 32 percent, taking over from Generation X, according to the 2015 National Association of Realtors (NAR) Home Buyer…

Bay Area Battle Begins Between Realtors And Activists Over Laws Limiting Speculation in San Francisco

By Joanna England / February 7, 2014 /

As Silicon Valley buyers moved in to San Francisco, prices for rentals and single-family properties have pushed sky-high. As Candy reported, the bus routes that shuttle employees to and from the Facebook and Google campuses have been protested and picketed by folks fed up with increasing cost of living and being pushed out of the…