Single Family
Some longtime Dallas residents have made it clear they don’t want housing density or multifamily development in their single-family neighborhoods. Typically they cite potential impacts on traffic and property values. Few will say out loud that they’re concerned about living next to poor people or criminals. And while those conversations aren’t occurring frequently at recorded…
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…
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…
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…
