Real Estate Center

Real Estate Center at Texas A&M Releases Report Extolling Texas' Bustling Economy, Says Dallas Area Ranks 6th in Job Growth

By Joanna England / July 1, 2013 /

If you want to know why growth in Texas real estate markets is outpacing other states, look no further than our great state’s unemployment rate. Like a mushroom that sprouts overnight, Texas’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 6.5 percent — an entire percentage point lower than the national average, according to the Real Estate Center…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Case-Schiller Composite Shows Dallas Home Prices Continue To Climb, But Economic Recovery is Slow

By Joanna England / May 28, 2013 /

Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to see Case-Schiller reporting double-digit annual growth across all composites in their latest report. The 10- and 20-city composites showed gains of 10.3 and 10.9 percent through the year ending in March 2013. For the Dallas area Home Price Level Index, the year-over-year growth according to Case-Schiller’s indicies…

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Hot DFW Housing Market, but Slim Pickin’s: Why Our Market Is Like Filene’s Basement Right Now

By Candy Evans / April 11, 2013 /

Well yes, it’s not even mid-April and it’s a mad house out there in the inner-loop real estate world. Sales of pre-owned single-family homes in March rose 22 percent from 2012. 7,483 properties sold. That’s the highest number of home sales since March, 2007. And we all know what happened after 2007. Hot discussion Wednesday…

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Hot DFW Housing Market, but Slim Pickin's: Why Our Market Is Like Filene's Basement Right Now

By Candy Evans / April 11, 2013 /

Well yes, it’s not even mid-April and it’s a mad house out there in the inner-loop real estate world. Sales of pre-owned single-family homes in March rose 22 percent from 2012. 7,483 properties sold. That’s the highest number of home sales since March, 2007. And we all know what happened after 2007. Hot discussion Wednesday…

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More Folks Are Moving to DFW And Snapping Up Homes: Local Market Monitor Report Projects Growth Through 2015

By Joanna England / February 4, 2013 /

  Dallas, be grateful! We are rebounding! Things are looking up! That is, according to the Jan. 31 Local Market Monitor report for the Dallas-Plano-Irving market. For me, this just re-affirms what Realtors and sellers are telling us: Well-staged homes that are priced right are flying off the market in record time. And we’re head-and-shoulders…

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