Single Family

Homeowners Hope Proposed Legislation Will Curb Boarding Home Rentals in Single-Family Neighborhoods

By April Towery / March 22, 2024 /

Private equity companies purchased 44 percent of single-family homes in the U.S. last year and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he wants to address the market distortion in the 2025 legislative session. “I strongly support free markets,” Abbott wrote on X after reposting comments alleging that the investor rush into the single-family market is driving…

Centre Living @ Lakewood: See Inside This Modern Neighborhood of Just Six Homes

By Shelby Skrhak / October 29, 2019 /

Sleek and simply modern, that’s how you could describe the six new homes that makeup Centre Living at Lakewood, an exclusive new project designed by the award-winning Dallas-based architecture firm FAR+DANG. Located at Swiss Ave and La Vista, the new Centre Living Homes community is a mix of two single-family homes and four duplex homes. The…

Renter Nation, Continued: Huge Surge in Dallas Rentals

By Candy Evans / August 29, 2011 /

Continuing the story I posted earlier on the proliferation of rentals in Dallas, I finally had time to check MLS stats and was blown away. Unless my fingers screwed up, I found that for first quarter 2011 there were 12,341 home sales in Dallas — single family plus condos — and in that same time…