Joanna Gaines Utley

Report: ‘Unusual’ Showing Slowdown For April Could Indicate Softening in Buyer Competition

By Joanna England / May 31, 2022 /

Is buyer demand waning? According to the latest data from ShowingTime, fewer buyers are showing up to tour properties on the market. Buyer competition for listings was slightly subdued in April as 103 markets across the country recorded double-digit showings per listing, compared to 146 in April 2021 and 121 in March of 2022. Overall,…

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Housing Bubble Ahead? The Dallas Fed Says Maybe, But This Economist Disagrees

By Joanna England / April 1, 2022 /
Bubble busting?

When I rang up Dr. Jim Gaines, a research economist at the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M, it must have been something of a Groundhog Day or déjà vu situation for him. He’d just discussed this same subject with a fellow economist and a room full of Fort Worth real estate professionals.…

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Land And Luxury Group Turns Toward Compass

By Joshua Baethge / September 2, 2019 /

The Land and Luxury Group is now affiliated with Compass Real Estate.  The brokerage, headed by Joanna Gaines Utley and Ben Lewis, was previously under the Modtown Realty umbrella. According to Utley, she’d been eyeing Compass for a while but hadn’t reached out to them. When word got out that Modtown would be dissolving, the…

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