North Texas' hot housing market won't cool in 2018, according to a new forecast. The Dallas-Fort Worth area is expected to be one of the top home markets in the country next year, according Realtor.com's just-released projections. Only Las Vegas will have a stronger home market in...
It's time to tune out the chatter, the doom, and certainly the gloom: The American Dream of homeownership is alive and well. Really. But that doesn't mean it's easy to buy a home these days. So what are the stumbling blocks? Stroke-inducing student loan debt. Soaring...
I have gone on tours, organized tours and had my own house on tour. After dozens of tours, I was over tours, until AIA Dallas initiated their tour of architect-designed homes. While there are still many good tours like the upcoming tour of Frank Welch-designed...
The most listing price cuts happen in August, right before the end of summer On the day after Thanksgiving, buyers will be flocking to stores and online retailers to find the best deals of the year. But, according to Trulia, real estate’s Black Friday happened three...
Tighter lending standards, more regulations and robust jobs growth are making all the difference Over the past year, home prices have consistently made double-digit month-over-month and year-over-year gains, exceeding the national pre-recession peak of $196,600. This has put some economists and housing experts on guard since...
It's good to be young and starting a family in Murphy. In fact, you can say that about several cities in Collin County and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to NerdWallet. The financial management website looked at 239 population centers in Texas with a minimum...
Dallas used to be once one of the top markets in the country for rising home prices. But the rate of home price gains in the Dallas area has cooled in recent months. Dallas-area home prices were 7.1 percent higher in August, according to the latest Standard...
“DFW is where we are putting our chips in today. We see the risk-adjusted returns are better in Dallas today and the profit spread is wider in Dallas today and the growth opportunity is better in Dallas today,” JPI Senior Vice President Matt Brendel said....
Seattle and Austin have zoomed to the head of the class of the country's hottest real estate markets for next year. They've stolen some thunder from Dallas-Fort Worth which for two years in a row has dropped in the rankings of top property investment and development markets by...
New-home sales are back. After a few months of drops in the number of buyers scooping up these abodes with that fresh, never-been-lived-in smell, sales are once again surging. The number of buyers who closed on newly built residences spiked in September, according to a joint report by...