Home Prices

DFW Hits Record Home Prices in 2018, Report Reveals

By Bethany Erickson / February 11, 2019 /
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Home sales fell in North Texas in the fourth quarter of 2018, Dallas-Fort Worth hit record home prices last year, and the Arlington Black Chamber of Commerce will hold its Hard Hat Construction Expo — and we have all this and more in this week’s roundup of real estate news. Area Home Sales Fall in…

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Are Home Values in North Texas Decelerating? Signs Point to — Maybe. Depends.

By Candy Evans / August 31, 2018 /

What goes up has to come down, at some point, right? It’s like that with home values. Except home values in Dallas have never shot skyward as much as they have in coastal cities and international hubs like Miami and New York City. Our home prices creep up by 5 to 7 percent a year.…

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How Much Will $200,000 Get You in Texas? Results May Vary

By Bethany Erickson / July 24, 2018 /
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It’s no secret that $200,000 won’t get you far in some places — for instance, in Manhattan, it’ll get you 126 square feet of home, which is about half the size of the average one-car garage, a recent analysis by PropertyShark revealed. “While the results were indeed astonishing, we didn’t think there would be such a…

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Dallas Area Tops Nation in New Apartment Completions in 2017

By Bethany Erickson / February 8, 2018 /

Dallas-Fort Worth topped the nation in new apartment completions last year — finishing almost 28,000 new rental units in 2017. According to RealPage, the metro area’s 27,974 completions were part of the 395,777 completions for the 150 largest metro markets nationwide for the year. New York City’s 23,207 came in second, and Houston was third…

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On MidlandDirt: Midland, Odessa Home Value Increases Show No Signs of Slowing

By Leah Shafer / July 3, 2015 /

Two new reports paint a bright picture of the housing market in Midland and Odessa now and for the next three years. The Local Monitor Reports, released today, cite a 7 percent increase in Midland home prices over the last 12 months, which puts the average home price at $183,463. In Odessa, prices have gone up 5 percent…

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