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D-FW’s Million-Dollar Cities Are The Usual Suspects, But Here’s What Makes Them Unique

By Marlin Weso / January 18, 2021 /
Richard Drummond Davis

We all know which Dallas-Fort Worth municipalities carry Zillow’s recent distinction of Million-Dollar Cities. But let’s review, anyway, because a good many of us like talking about luxury homes. Listed in order by typical home value are the usual suspects — Westlake ($1,752,752), Highland Park ($1,695.262), Westover Hills ($1,677,514), and University Park ($1,468,731). Big duh.…

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Some Realtors Experience Sticker Shock as Zillow Begins Charging For Rental Listings

By Joanna England / January 13, 2021 /

For John Angell, it was the last straw. The Dallas-based agent with Paragon Realtors took to Facebook to air his grievance with Zillow, the company that uses MLS data to populate its site with for-sale and for-lease listings. The company, which started its own brokerage — Zillow Homes — last September, also announced at that…

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If You’re Selling in 2021, Studies Have Good News for Texas’ Housing Market

By Marlin Weso / January 11, 2021 /

Thinking about putting your home up for sale but just haven’t found the right time or conditions? Will the seller’s market remain hot this year? The news is good. According to one analysis, median Dallas-Fort Worth market home values will grow 5.3 percent in 2021. California-based Construction Coverage analyzed data from Zillow in its study.…

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Are You a Zillow Surfer, Daydreaming About Better Surroundings? It’s Now a Pandemic Pasttime

By Marlin Weso / December 27, 2020 /

Sitting at the home-office computer with HGTV playing in the background, we’ve all done it. We’ve watched Chip and Joanna turn a dive into a jewel made of shiplap somewhere in Waco. We’ve seen the House Hunters episode in which a guy in Dallas obsesses over buying a house that looks like a castle. Or…

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Search Analysis Shows More Renters Checking Out Dallas During Pandemic, Plus Other Reports

By Marlin Weso / December 17, 2020 /

Dallas might be regarded as a temporary safe haven for renters during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the easy conclusion from Apartment List’s quarterly renter migration report, but the data suggests other reasons. In its fourth-quarter report, Apartment List crunched its search numbers and determined that 23.5 percent of people looking for a place to live…

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