Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX Real Estate Blog

New Age Home Buyers in DFW Want Parks & Walking Trails—Not Golf Courses

An interesting new trend is happening in new home communities around the country, but it’s especially prevalent here in the North Texas area. It wasn’t long ago that large scale residential communities were centered on country clubs, golf courses, and oversized community centers that offered any number of over-the-top amenities to its members and local residents. But today, things are seemingly much different.

According to the National Golf Foundation, golf course closings around the U.S. are taking place at an alarming rate and have outnumbered new golf course openings for an eighth straight year. Building and maintaining even a modest golf course by today’s standards is an extremely expensive endeavor, and when you factor in fewer and fewer people are…

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Variety is What Makes Lofts For Sale in Dallas So Special

With the first quarter of 2015 winding down and the Dallas real estate market still red hot, we realized it’s been a little while since we’ve checked in on lofts for sale around the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

As some of our favorite properties to show clients, Dallas lofts never seem to disappoint, regardless of when or where you’re looking. Another great aspect about Dallas lofts for sale is that no matter your design tastes or preferences, something is almost always on the market that is sure to satisfy almost every single item on that never-ending wish list that most home buyers seem to carry around during their search.

Don’t believe us?

Well, here are just several examples of the different loft styles that occupy a place on the DFW real estate market,…

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Pre-Leasing Alert: Aura Cedar Apartments in Oak Lawn

Dallas’ booming apartment market continues to make headlines, and most recently, plans for an impressive new 387-unit Class A rental community were announced for the Oak Lawn neighborhood. Being developed by Trinsic Residential Group, Aura Cedar apartments will be conveniently located at Cedar Springs Road and the Dallas North Tollway, and just blocks from Aura Wycliff apartments—another apartment community by the same Dallas-based developer.

Renderings for the new Aura Cedar project have also been released, and at first glance, the new 4-story, urban-style rentals look to fit in perfectly with this rapidly developing part of town.

The entire project will be set of 6.1 acres, and the building’s frame will wrap around a structured parking garage that…

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A Look at 5 of the Most Expensive High-Rise Condos Currently For Sale in Dallas

In case you missed it, Bleu Ciel is arguably one of Dallas’ most exciting new real estate developments currently in the works, both on the residential and commercial side of things. As pointed out yesterday, this towering 33-story tower will be the city’s first high-rise condominium project since the end of the housing crash that started all the way back in 2008, perhaps creating an even bigger buzz around it than what we’d normally see for such a development. 

But given ground was just broken on Bleu Ceil towards the end of last year, condo buyers won’t see delivery for these lavish and luxurious new Dallas condos until towards the end of 2016, leaving many who might be in the market right now to find other alternatives.

As you may know, the…

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Bleu Ciel Condos For Sale: Luxury at its Finest in Uptown Dallas

Regardless of how much you've heard or read about The Bleu Ciel, it’s hard to overstate how impressive this sprawling 33-story tower will be once completed. Harwood International, one of Uptown Dallas’ biggest developers, is behind this legendary new project and although its interior finishes and lavish amenities are certainly garnering a lot of attention among those in the Dallas real estate industry and luxury home buyers alike, Bleu Ciel is also significant because it marks the first high-rise condominium building to be developed in Dallas since the end of the recession.

If the name Harwood International sounds familiar, you might remember they also built the 31-story Azure condo tower back in 2005, which continues to be one of the city’s most sought…

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An Updated Look at What's Coming to the Redeveloped Victory Park

The much-needed and highly anticipated redevelopment of Victory Park is well underway and the project’s first wave of restaurants and retailers for this exciting new development was just announced.

The goal of the revamped Victory Park is to enhance walk-ability and connectivity between the southern end of the neighborhood and one of the city’s most visited attractions, the American Airlines Center. 

Various streetscape improvements will be added, a raised crosswalk and a median on Olive Street to connect to Victory Park Lane and Victory Plaza will be installed, and a new signalized crosswalk to aid pedestrians looking to safely cross over to the American Airlines Center will all be part of an effort to attract businesses and new residents to…

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One of America's Most Expensive Homes Set to Hit the Dallas Real Estate Market

Luxury homes on the Dallas real estate market are one thing, but a $100 million estate is a whole different ball game. In fact, homes at that level are few and far between for any market, but that’s exactly what will soon be publicly listed on the local DFW MLS.

Once the most expensive home in America, the property formerly known as Crespi-Hicks Estate, now “Walnut Place,” is set to re-enter the market for a cool price of $100 million, and after you consider everything it includes, you might just think that’s a bargain price.

Set on 25 acres in Dallas’ affluent Preston Hollow neighborhood, more than 35,000 square feet of living space encompass this massive four-story home, which includes 10 bedrooms, 12 full bathrooms, and five half bathrooms.

There’s…

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Alternatives to Expensive Uptown Apartments Likely on the Way For Dallas-Area Renters

Dallas’  Uptown neighborhood is one of our favorite parts of the city, and with the rapid rate of development that’s been going on there for roughly the past decade, it's safe to say we’re not the only ones who love this lively and vibrant part of town.

Towards the end of last month, news broke about Developer Leon Capital Group breaking ground on a chic, urban-style apartment project right next door to the Cityplace complex. When finished, the new apartment community will stand six stories high and house more than 150 individual rental units—just the latest of several new construction apartment projects currently underway in Uptown.

But with land prices now at over $200 a square foot and fewer and fewer empty lots to build on, developers are now asking…

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Dallas Area Home Price Increases Among the Highest in the Nation

If you need more evidence that the DFW real estate market is scorching hot right now, have a look at the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index for 2014. According to its year-end report, Dallas-area home prices saw a 7.5 percent increase from 2013 to 2014, or nearly 3 percent higher than home prices nationwide.

With Denver, Miami and San Francisco all seeing between 8 and 10 percent bumps in home prices, Dallas saw the fourth-highest jump in the country among the major 20 markets that Case-Shiller surveys, edging out cities like Las Vegas, Seattle, and Los Angeles.

To date, home prices in the DFW region are now 13 percent higher than what was seen before the recession, and an astounding 30 percent higher since the beginning of 2012.

It’s important to…

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DFW Rent Prices on the Rise, Begging the Question: Is Now a Good Time to Buy?

Believe it or not, nearly 16,000 new apartments are currently under construction in DFW and will be delivered sometime during 2015. But despite the rising numbers in inventory, renters in Dallas-Fort Worth are now paying more than ever for an apartment, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.

According to a recent piece in the Dallas Morning News, rent prices in the area were up more than 5% from January 2014 to January 2015, and in Fort Worth, increases in apartment rents have jumped even more at 6.4% from this time last year.

While many different factors come into play as to why DFW’s rental and apartment market is so hot right now, many attribute it’s equally hot job market as perhaps the primary source. Last year, the Dallas-Fort Worth…

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