New build

New Construction Homes: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

By Brenda Masse / September 13, 2023 /

When we inspect new construction homes, our inspectors evaluate systems that haven’t been tested by homeowners living in them yet, so we’re making sure that the home has been set up properly and that all systems are functioning as they should. Sometimes everything is working spectacularly, but sometimes mistakes have been made, or something has…

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Buying a New Home in Dallas-Fort Worth? Don’t Forget a Home Inspection on New Construction

By Brenda Masse / December 14, 2022 /

According to the Urban Land Institute’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2023 forecast report, Dallas-Fort Worth ranks 6th in the nation for homebuilding prospects in 2023. And depending on whose report you look at, D-FW is ranked somewhere in the top 10 for home building in 2022, though that number slowed in the second half of the…

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Check out This Newly Built Stucco Beauty in Preston Hollow

By Daniel Hightower Smith / July 26, 2021 /

Preston Hollow has been one of Dallas’s ascendant neighborhoods for awhile, but even some of the homes there feature extra perks. One of them is 11041 Lawnhaven Road. It’s a contemporary stucco built in 2020 that backs up to one of Dallas’s broad green belts, the Northaven Trail, where you will often find our founder…

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Newly Minted Westworth Falls Revisited as Development Winds Down

By Eric Prokesh / March 1, 2019 /
Westworth Falls

You needn’t travel more than 20 minutes southwest from town to find a new build with the magnificence of Mira Vista or Montserrat. Only 10 minutes from downtown, near Westover and Shady Oaks Country Club, in the unincorporated town of Westworth Village is the glam gated community of Westworth Falls. Of course, our own Seth…

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Joshua Nimmo-Designed Digs in a Hot Neighborhood For a Great Price

By Joanna England / February 20, 2019 /

It seems as if Joshua Nimmo will become something akin to Charles Dilbeck one day. The award-winning modernist architect is seeding the Dallas landscape with his designs, colonizing some transitioning areas of the city much like Dilbeck brought his eclectic designs to East Dallas, Oak Cliff, and beyond. However, with Nimmo’s sleek architecture, the placemaking…

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