Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide

Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: Houston Can Teach Dallas a Thing or Two

By Jon Anderson / September 12, 2017 /

[Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in Jon Anderson’s Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide. Read the first two here and here.] First Stop: The Tenth Street and The Bottoms Every neighborhood needs a Lester Houston fighting for it.  In Houston’s case, he’s the Cedar Haven Neighborhood Association leader located just southeast of the Zoo. Houston…

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Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: Lessons for Buying in an ‘Up and Coming’ Neighborhood

By Jon Anderson / September 5, 2017 /

Recently, I wrote that buyers looking for reasonably-priced homes close to the Dallas core needed to start looking south, specifically south of I-30 from I-35E to east of Fair Park. These are the areas that particularly fell prey to redlining. Once thriving areas in the midst of renewal, they offer some fab bargains and the…

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Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: Looking For a Reasonably Priced Home? Let the Redline Map Be Your Guide

By Jon Anderson / August 22, 2017 /

Last week, Seth Fowler wrote about a client of his looking for a home in the sub-$200,000 market close to his job in Bedford.  “Ted” had been on a roller coaster of 43 showings and 11 contract offers … still without a home eight months on and counting. In today’s Dallas, it’s a story that’s…

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