Entries Tagged as ‘Highland Park / University Park’

December 31, 2009

Good news for Dallas real estate as we end 2009

Decline slows in Dallas-Fort Worth area home prices | Dallas Real Estate News | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News.

November 13, 2009

UpdateDallas.com writes about my opinions on Healthiest Dallas Neighborhoods

Click image to read the article. Thanks Anne Briggs!

October 20, 2009

HP district sees increase in students from private schools | Dallas Morning News

A lot of people are taking their $20-thousand per child per year that they pay for private schools and applying it to a mortgage in the Park Cities. With more cottages available for sale now (cottages are not being torn down by builders like they were in past years)…getting in the Park Cities is more [...]

October 4, 2009

Modwalls® is “Making Tile Modern” with glass subway tile & recycled glass mosaics 877-439-9734

Home styles are constantly changing and since I love to remodel and work with builders I’m always watching the latest trends.  This site has some good ideas – enjoy.  Let me know if you have any good places you turn to for ideas.
Modwalls® is “Making Tile Modern” with glass subway tile & recycled glass mosaics [...]

October 2, 2009

Real Estate Update – The Briggs Freeman Blog

Hello! Here is a link to the Briggs Freeman Real Estate Update Blog. Feel free to use the updates and information from the blog in your Twitter and Facebook accounts. Pass it on…
http://www.dallas-realestateupdate.com/

August 28, 2009

The real estate market looks good this fall; appraisals can cause hiccups.

It’s the end of summer and schools have started – It’s time to re-focus on the last quarter of the year. That is our usual plan in real estate and I was wondering if this year would be the same or different? Well the phones are ringing, buyers are out and sellers are [...]

August 17, 2009

Survey: Dallas-Fort Worth home prices flat in 2Q | Dallas Real Estate News | Dallas Morning News

Three optismistic (quite welcomed) quotes from the article:
1) “We are beginning to see some more positive trends in the housing market, which is great news,” said David Brown…
2) The D-FW area has had one of the smallest overall home price declines of any major U.S. market during the last two years…
3) Economists anticipate that the [...]

April 7, 2009

Real Estate Statistics for Highland Park – April 7, 2009

I am looking through MLS online tonight and I find it amazing that if a homebuyer is looking in Highland Park or University Park for a home that is priced between $1million and $2million you have a selection of 203 homes. I am estimating that is approximately a 17-month supply. Currently there are 14 [...]

February 20, 2009

House Prices Will Rise Greatly over the Next Few Years, Buy Now

In the 80’s when I purchased my first home I was so excited because the interest rates were 13% – I mean they were down from 16%. Today, we have a combined buying opportunity of low interest rates and lower home prices in the Dallas area than we have seen in a few years. [...]

January 25, 2009

It’s back in Highland Park – $595,000

I’m happy to see that in HP/UP there are smaller homes being sold and not torn down. For the past few years most of the homes priced under $600k were bought by builders and torn down for new large homes which was making it difficult for first time buyers to get into the park [...]