Tim Stoll
 
Wages, Home Prices Key To Housing Growth
Last year, high hopes for the housing market looked bleak during what turned out to be a slow winter. Harsh weather stalled activity in some parts of the...
Average Mortgage Rates Decrease – Dallas TX
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association s Weekly Applications Survey, average mortgage rates fell across all loan categories last week, including 30-year...
Dallas Real Estate Market Should Benefit from Developments
Urban Real Estate Benefits from Events…and Non-Events! A couple of recent developments made the news recently that promised to impact our Dallas real estate...
Existing Home Sales Fall In February
In January, sales of previously owned homes hit their highest level since 2007. Then, according to new numbers from the National Association of Realtors,...
Gov’t Report Offers Housing Market Snapshot
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development s monthly Housing Scorecard collects key market data and the results of the federal government s...
New Dallas Townhomes Vie with Existing Home Offerings
Dallas Townhomes Do Buyers Prefer New Homes? Yes…and No… When it comes to buyers of dallas townhomes, newly built ones or pre-existing. Several different...
Misinformation Keeps First Time Home Buyers Away
Before the housing crash, first time home buyers typically accounted for 40 percent of home sales in any given year. Last year, that same group accounted for...
Average Dallas Mortgage Rates Rise But Remain Low
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association s Weekly Applications Survey, average dallas mortgage rates increased last week from the week before. In fact,...
Home Decor Tweaks in Urban Dallas are a Springtime Phenomenon
Springtime in Dallas Can Prompt Home Décor Decisions There is something about spring that gets everybody at least thinking about fixing up the house, and...
Know the Emotional Element in Selling Your Uptown Dallas Home
Selling Your Dallas Home can Use Emotional Detachment When you read up on the dos and don’ts for selling your home, there is one piece of advice that’s...
Uptown Dallas Cost of Living is a Bargain, When You Consider These
Cost of Living Here in Dallas is Downright Attractive Being able to work within a realistic family budget has become an increasingly important part of modern...
Uptown MLS Listings: Good Place to Start a Class on Real Estate
Under the Hood of Our Dallas MLS Listings Wouldn t it be great if high schools started a Driver’s Education kind of class for real estate? At some point—I think...
Heads-Up: Dallas Mortgage Rate isn’t Standing Still
Is that Sound You Hear the Urban Mortgage Rate Alarm Bell? In case you set your alarm clock to go off when it was time to buy a home, that clang you may be...
One Solution for Selling a Tenant-Occupied Uptown Property
Showing a Dallas Property – Occupied or Not, it’s a Balancing Act! In a perfect world, before you set about selling your Dallas property you would have emptied...
Dallas Housing Doing Nicely without this Bay Area Innovation
One Housing Solution Uptown Homeowners Can Do Without Dallas residents been hearing about unbelievably tight housing situations here and in other U.S. cities...
Dallas Builders Take Note: a “Spec” Home that’s One for the Ages
Urban Spec Home Builders Needn’t Compete with L.A.’s Newest A Dallas “spec” home is a residence that has been designed and built by an urban entrepreneur who...
3 Reasons Why Uptown Rental Homes Could Gain Traction
Dallas Rental Home Appeal Might Have Three Explanations For an increasing number of Dallas residents, what used to be a slam dunk assumption—that owning your...
Uptown Dallas Mortgage Rates Projected to Rise Sooner Rather than Later
Summer Activities Partially Derailed by Mortgage Rates Outlook Now that we are deep into July , with summer in full swing, there might be vague thoughts...
U.S. Report & Our Urban Real Estate Investment Outlook
Real Estate Investment News Items Reflect Wide Gains Last week’s reporting showed the same kind of upward movement that’s become commonplace for urban real...
Dallas Bargain Hunters: Island Homes for Sale—Really on Sale!
What a Deal! Island Homes for Sale at Drop-Dead Discounts! The good news is, yes, you read that headline correctly: there are drop-dead gorgeous oceanfront...
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