Dallas Real Estate News
A Gas Price Spike Froze Dallas Fort Worth’s Early 2026 Housing Momentum
Housing markets are supposed to move on big forces – interest rates, job growth, inventory levels. But in Dallas Fort Worth, the momentum building through early 2026 broke not because of a rate hike or a recession, but b...
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Why Every Serious Real Estate Agent In Southlake, TX Needs A Media Presence In 2026
Buyers and sellers in Southlake, TX do not wait for an agent to find them anymore. They search first, form an opinion, and then decide who they are willing to call. That shift is why Justin Nimergood, leader of the Top G...
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Distinctive Luxury Homes Still Sell Fast in a Cooling North Texas Market
The broader Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) housing market has cooled. Listings are sitting longer, buyers are pickier, and the negotiating balance has shifted. But one segment in the Frisco-McKinney corridor is defying that tre...
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In Collin County, Texas, Resale Homes Compete Against New Construction on Price, Incentives, and Marketing
The challenge facing homeowners trying to sell in North Texas isn’t soft demand; it’s that builders down the street are offering rate buydowns and design credits that no individual seller can easily match. Across Collin ...
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In Dallas-Fort Worth’s Outer Suburbs, Buying a Home Means Committing for a Decade
If you’re shopping for a home in one of the fast-growing communities on the edges of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the math on building equity looks very different than it did a few years ago. The typical three-to-fiv...
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In North Texas, New Construction Is Reshaping the Math for Resale Sellers
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has more than 200 cities and suburbs, and it continues to expand outward. That expansion has flooded outer suburbs with new construction inventory, and the downstream effects are now visib...
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In Celina, Texas, 34 Active Developments Are Reshaping How Existing Homes Compete for Buyers
A city of roughly 68,000 to 72,000 people does not typically support 34 simultaneous new-home developments. But Celina, Texas, one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States over the past five years, is operating...
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Outamation Debuts on the 2026 Inc. 5000 at #133, Ranking Among America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
DALLAS, Aug. 14, 2026 – Outamation, a leader in automation and digital transformation for mortgage servicing and origination, today announced it has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, debuting at 133 with 2,291% three-yea...
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Construction Material Costs in Dallas-Fort Worth Have Risen 20 to 70 Percent Since 2022
Home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro are declining, but the cost of building anything continues to climb. That disconnect, cheaper finished homes, more expensive inputs, is compressing builder profits and creating ...
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Maturing Loans Are Pushing Texas Multifamily Assets to Sell Below Market
For much of 2023 and 2024, Texas multifamily operators were fighting a war of attrition; new supply flooded Sun Belt markets, concessions became standard practice, and occupancy rates slipped across the board. Now, as th...
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Reading Corporate Office Signals Wisely – What Nashville, Miami, and Dallas Teach Real Estate Markets
A closer look at high-profile office openings reveals an opportunity for real estate markets to interpret corporate location decisions more accurately and confidently. Real estate markets have long treated corporate offi...
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Why Dallas-Area Homeowners Get Blindsided by Custom Build Costs
Most private owners in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) don’t learn the true cost of their custom home or renovation until the design is fully complete. By then, changing anything means starting over. This budget shock is largely...
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Celina, Texas Home Prices Drop as Buyers Wait on Tollway Extension
Homes in Celina, Texas have dropped 15 to 20 percent from their pandemic peaks, and 5.7 months of inventory suggests prices haven’t finished falling. The Dallas North Tollway extension is scheduled to reach the city next...
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North Dallas Buyers Face a Hidden Tax Tradeoff in New-Construction Neighborhoods
The listed price on a new-construction home north of Dallas often understates what buyers will actually pay each month. A growing number of developments sit outside city limits – technically in Collin County – where a sp...
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Why North Texas Sellers Are Selling Directly to Investors Rather Than Listing Their Homes
A few years ago in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a house with a hole in the ceiling could attract 20 offers overnight. That market is gone. What replaced it is one in which condition determines whether a property moves at ...
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North Dallas Has Doubled Its Housing Inventory. Buyers Are Still Waiting
The North Dallas suburbs – McKinney, Frisco, Prosper, and surrounding Collin County – spent the past decade absorbing wave after wave of corporate relocations. Toyota moved its headquarters to the Plano-Frisco corridor. ...
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Sunbelt Luxury Apartments Sit Empty While Affordable Units Stay Tight
High-end apartment buildings in Nashville, Austin, and Dallas are struggling to fill units. At the same time, renters in those cities report spending a larger share of their income on housing than ever before. The discon...
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Why Southlake’s Top Gun Team Is Redefining What “Team Support” Means for Agents
Most real estate coaches teach that consistent phone outreach builds a productive pipeline. What they rarely address is the cost of having a licensed agent spend two hours dialing contacts who mostly don’t answer, time t...
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Townhome Demand Is Surging in North Texas Cities Most Dallas Investors Haven’t Heard Of
Younger, working-class families are bypassing established Dallas suburbs in favor of lower-maintenance housing in fast-growing peripheral cities – and the capital hasn’t followed them yet. The most significant demand shi...
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