Home Prices

In North Texas, Housing Prices Are Down And Foreclosures Are on The Upswing

By Candy's Dirt / July 21, 2023 /
The Dallas-Plano-Irving area joins Houston and San Antonio metro areas as Texas metros having the biggest increases in late payments on federally backed home loans through the end of August, according to the American Enterprise Institute's FHA Neighborhood Warch.

New data shows that, just as our meteoric rise in home values sent our nation’s real estate market topsy-turvy, so has the rapid cooling that the market has seen in the past several months. In new reports from ATTOM and MetroTex Association of Realtors, the number of foreclosure filings has increased while the average price…

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Three Things to Know About How The Media Exaggerates News on The Real Estate Market

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / April 25, 2023 /

By Ryan Casey Stephens,  FPQP®Special Contributor Powerful narratives shape the world around us. How consumers feel about the real estate market can dramatically affect the balance of buyers and sellers in Dallas-Fort Worth. The good news is you have some ability to present the facts, and that is your most important tool as a real…

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Home Sales to Decline by 7% in 2023, Rebound in 2024 Says NAR Economist Lawrence Yun

By Candy's Dirt / November 15, 2022 /

Staff Report Amid the backdrop of high inflation, elevated mortgage rates, and slowing sales activity, severely limited housing inventory will prevent large home price drops for most of the country next year, according to NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. Yun analyzed the current state of the residential real estate market and shared his 2023 outlook…

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Adult Children Are Still Living at Home in Dallas — But It’s Worse Elsewhere

By Bethany Erickson / April 8, 2019 /
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Where did Dallas fall in a study of adult children living at home with their parents? What cities will dominate new home construction this year? What did housing sales look like in February? We have all this and more in this week’s roundup of real estate news.

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DFW Home Sales Were Down, But Prices Up in 2018

By Bethany Erickson / February 25, 2019 /
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What was the final verdict on home sales and home prices in DFW last year? What kind of profit did home sellers get? And how did Texas fare when it came to a ranking of the quality of life in state capitals? We have all this in this week’s roundup of real estate news.

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