Southern Dallas

Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: The Trail Ends at Fair Park

By Jon Anderson / January 19, 2018 /

Toot-toot! End of the line! I have been riding myself ragged up and down DART’s Blue and Green lines in Southern Dallas for our Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide. My goal was to see what kind of housing and neighborhoods are out there for those wanting a home close to the city without the North Dallas…

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Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: DART’s Lawnview Station, Top of the Trinity Forest

By Jon Anderson / January 12, 2018 /

Looking at the maps, you may wonder what all the empty space is south of the Lawnview station. You wonder why the DART Green Line swings around this patch from the Lake June Station to reach Lawnview. At least that’s what this former Chicagoan was wondering before visiting the area.  Dallasites probably know it as…

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Real Estate Still Waiting For Its Own Black Friday

By Jon Anderson / November 28, 2017 /

Apocryphally, Black Friday is the day when retailers finally turn a profit on the year (not the color of your mother’s bruises getting you a Cabbage Patch doll).  Yes, the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the only profitable month and it’s so profitable it makes up for the losses of the remainder of the…

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Southern Dallas Buyer’s Guide: Opportunity Abounds Near UNT

By Jon Anderson / September 21, 2017 /

As we continue our Blue Line buyers’ train into Southern Dallas, we hit Ledbetter, Camp Wisdom and UNT Dallas DART stations.  We also hit a lot more homes on the market. On the other side of I-35E is the Golf Club of Dallas that’s been in the news lately (here).  Net-net, by simply crossing east…

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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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