New Home Construction

A Spring Home Tour With the Home Inspectors

By Brenda Masse / March 22, 2025 /

It’s Spring Home Tour season, and we thought we’d get in on the action by taking you on our own kind of tour. Today, we’ll be looking at some of the different parts of a home you should look at for both spring home maintenance and home safety purposes. Some might claim our tour is…

Is Build-to-Rent The Hottest Trend in Housing?

By Daniel Lalley / April 25, 2022 /

The built-to-rent housing model has seen a boom in the last several years. In fact, as many residents look to settle down without the hassles of homeownership, luxury leasing neighborhoods could become the new normal. And, with the extremely hot housing market pricing many out of traditional mortgages, new luxury leasing communities might seem even…

Meet Eagle Cleanup: The Local Junk Removing Service That’s About To Simplify Your Life

By Mary Cate Long / September 26, 2021 /

When a home is being built, the excellence of the construction won’t matter if all the home buyer can see is a dirty, disorganized site. Enter Eagle Cleanup, a Dallas-area junk removal business that has been clearing out spaces and decluttering lives for over 38 years.  “If you’re a home builder building a house for…

Building a Home in Dallas-Fort Worth? Phase Inspections Could Save You Headaches Down The Road

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / January 27, 2021 /

Every week, the detail-oriented folks at Green Scene Home Inspections will give CandysDirt.com readers an education in inspection. Want to see what they see? Tune in for “Upon Closer Inspection.” The DFW real estate market is on fire, and the demand for homes is higher than the supply of houses for sale. Homebuilders are working as…

Five L’s Hamper New Home Construction and Affordability

By Bethany Erickson / June 15, 2018 /

The good news? In the past year, 909,000 new single-family homes have been started, and it’s projected that by 2020 starts on new home construction will hit the one million mark. The bad news? The need will be for 1.2 million, a leading economist said Thursday. “The forecast is that home prices will continue to…