Homebuying

Zillow Has Zeroed in On Exact Times to Maximize the Sales Price of a Dallas-Fort Worth Home

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / April 9, 2022 /
The RE/MAX National Housing Report reveals Dallas-Fort Worth home sales were up 4.6 percent over last year. The August Zillow Real Estate Market Report showed a 4.1 percent increase for D/FW home sales.

When are the ideal times to list a house? According to a new Zillow analysis, homes listed in the second half of April — next week if you’re keeping score — can expect to fetch 2.8 percent more or about $9,300 on the typical U.S. home. Homes listed on any Thursday, when shoppers are planning…

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10-Plus People You Meet When Buying a Home

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / November 5, 2021 /

By Daniel LalleySpecial Contributor Going through the wringer of a real estate purchase can lead you to some pretty unexpected places. After it’s all said and done, you might feel like you’ve taken crash courses through the colleges of business, government, investing, time management, even construction and contemporary design. The people come at you like…

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Millennials Will Break The Bank On Homes To Appear More Successful

By April Towery / August 8, 2019 /

Forget keeping up with the Joneses; kids these days just want to blow the Joneses out of the water. Many consumers have spent too much on a luxury handbag, or signed on for a car payment that might require a regular phone call to Mom and Dad. But the price tag of appearing successful, wealthy,…

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Dallas-Fort Worth Boasts One of Lowest Home Buy-Rent Breakevens

By Bethany Erickson / May 21, 2018 /
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It takes about a year and a half for a home to hit the buy-rent breakeven horizon in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, research by Zillow economists for the first quarter of 2018 revealed. The Zillow Buy-Rent Breakeven Horizon measures the amount of time it takes for owning a home to make more financial sense than…

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Will Avocado Toast Be The Millenial Homebuying Waterloo?

By Bethany Erickson / June 26, 2017 /
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It was the sternly worded lecture heard ‘round the Millennial world — give up avocado toast if you want to buy a house. And almost as soon as Australian real estate developer Tim Gurner’s words trilled over the airwaves, the debate began: Was it really a matter of just not being frugal and smart, or…

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