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Where Do We Keep All Our Stuff? Study Cites Dallas-Fort Worth as a Self-Storage Force

By Tommy Cummings / May 17, 2021 /

As metro Dallas’ apartment market surged in the past decade, the business of storing people’s belongings boomed along with it.

Pandemic Changes What Renters Want in Apartment Amenities, Plus Other Reports

By Tommy Cummings / April 21, 2021 /

What apartment amenities did renters prioritize the most during the pandemic? You’d think it was charm and character, like the House Hunters folks say. But not so much. Zumper crunched the data in search rates and came up with some interesting findings, revealing differences in desired amenities and how generational age groups differed from each…

Zoomers Represent Twice the State Average of Renters in This North Texas City

By Tommy Cummings / March 30, 2021 /

It makes sense. Denton is the second-ranked Texas city of choice and 12th-ranked nationally by the percentage of Generation Zoomer renters, according to a RENTCafé analysis. Denton is home to the University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University. The city is the very definition of a college town with a dynamic music, arts, and…

Are You Untethered? Remote Work Creates Shift, Even in Dallas; Plus Other Reports

By Tommy Cummings / March 24, 2021 /

Show of hands, please: Who out there likes to commute? Hardly anyone, right? For those lucky enough to work from home, one of the upsides is avoiding the rush-hour commute. Prompted by health mandates caused by the pandemic, the WFH experiment has revealed a dramatic shift in working life. In Apartment List’s latest report, it’s…

This North Texas County Had Record Home Sales to Start 2021, Plus Other Reports

By Tommy Cummings / February 22, 2021 /

The home housing market in Dallas-Fort Worth recorded record home sales in 2020 and has shown no signing of slowing during the first month of 2021. In particular, Dallas County had the largest number of home sales in North Texas, moving 1,733 houses — an increase of 13.9 percent from a year earlier, according to…