Monday, November 28th, 2016 and is filed under Economy, Financing / Mortgage, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market, Housing Starts
PINPOINTING HOUSING TRENDS UNDER A TRUMP PRESIDENCY The Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election capped off a nasty, volatile and uncertain political cycle. In between the…
Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 and is filed under Construction, Economy, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market
MORE JOBS, MORE PEOPLE . . . LESS HOUSING? Recent good news for the Dallas-Fort Worth economy came from Jacobs Engineering Group and its announcement…
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 and is filed under Economy, Financing / Mortgage, General, Housing Market
Texas Top-Outs Two noteworthy items coming out of the recent Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Fall 2016 conference in Dallas were that Austin and Dallas were…
Monday, October 24th, 2016 and is filed under Economy, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market, Housing Starts
MILLENNIAL METRICS As we’ve written in previous blogs, millennials are regarded as the next age group to bring a lot of activity to the housing…
Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 and is filed under Construction, Economy, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market, Housing Starts
In a recent article, we reported that Dallas-Fort Worth area home sales skyrocketed in August, with prices not so far behind. We also noted that…
Monday, September 19th, 2016 and is filed under Construction, Dallas Fort Worth, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market
Dallas-Fort Worth is, once again, breaking a few records when it comes to home sales. According to a recent article in the Dallas Morning News[1],…
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016 and is filed under Construction, Economy, Financing / Mortgage, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market
Beginning in the early 2000s, some residential home builders began mass-producing larger houses. In some areas, developers found plenty of lots on which to build…
Thursday, August 25th, 2016 and is filed under Construction, Economy, General, Housing Affordability, Housing Market, Housing Starts
Dallas and Fort Worth are different cities, with separate cultures, separated by approximately 60 miles. These two cities are, nonetheless linked by infrastructure (rail and…
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016 and is filed under Economy, Housing Market, Housing Starts
The economic news about Texas has been middling to okay. Economists with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University point out that, while job…
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016 and is filed under Economy, Housing Affordability, Housing Market
Just about anyone traveling around the Dallas-Fort Worth area these days will come across a slice of land, or two (or even three), on which…