North Texas Real Estate News

Nation, Dallas Sees Rise in Number of High-Income Renters

By Bethany Erickson / March 17, 2019 /

More and more people are choosing to rent, economists are finding, but Apartment List found in a recent study that one particular — and somewhat surprising — segment of the rental market is booming: high-income renters. The report deems those with six-figure incomes as high-income renters, and a growing number in this income bracket are…

Housing Affordability Continues to Lag in Dallas

By CandysDirt / March 17, 2019 /

From staff reports Although housing affordability is at an all-time low in Dallas, home price appreciation has decelerated recently, the latest report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas revealed. The report, released March 14, also revealed that Dallas-Fort Worth employment grew by 2.5 percent in 2018.

McKinney-based Fathom Realty Announces IPO Plans

By CandysDirt / March 16, 2019 /

From staff reports McKinney-based Fathom Realty announced last week that it would begin working towards taking the company public, saying it would file documents for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the second quarter of 2019. The cloud-based, 100 percent commission brokerage said it will submit a Form S-1 with…

Incredibly Updated Historic Craftsman Two Blocks From Lower Greenville

By Bethany Erickson / March 15, 2019 /

If you’re a newcomer to Dallas, you may not know that there are two sections of Greenville inside the loop of LBJ  — one that starts roughly at Mockingbird Lane and goes north, and Lower Greenville, which is generally the southern end of Greenville. If you hit Munger, you’ve gone too far. Why do we…

The New Green: From Energy-Efficient to Self-Sufficient Homes

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 15, 2019 /

By Deb R. Brimer Contributing Writer Jimmy Tanghongs – president and CEO of The New Modern Home in Plano – is reinventing green homebuilding. Instead of following the industry flow and building traditional energy-efficient houses, he’s forging his own path by developing the nation’s first neighborhood of self-sufficient homes.