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Homeowners Hope Proposed Legislation Will Curb Boarding Home Rentals in Single-Family Neighborhoods

By April Towery / March 22, 2024 /

Private equity companies purchased 44 percent of single-family homes in the U.S. last year and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he wants to address the market distortion in the 2025 legislative session.  “I strongly support free markets,” Abbott wrote on X after reposting comments alleging that the investor rush into the single-family market is driving…

One Fintech Solution Hopes to Create Equitable Financing in a World of Investors And iBuyers

By Daniel Lalley / May 26, 2023 /

No doubt it’s been one hectic period for the housing market. Emboldened with excessive stimulus cash and nowhere to spend it, many buyers flooded the real estate realm in 2020. We’re still feeling the fallout nearly three years later. Rapidly increasing appraisal values have led to an influx of investors, iBuyers, and beyond. Especially in…

As North Texas Home Prices Break Records in May, Some Wonder if a Bubble is Forming

By Joanna England / June 11, 2018 /

Far East Dallas is swarming teeming with work trucks as investors, eager to catch the wave of demand within inner-loop neighborhoods, remodel homes on these close-quartered blocks. But even with all of the flippers tacking up new drywall and painting these post-war ranches varying shades of gray, supply of move-in ready homes hasn’t kept up…