Why You Should Sell Your Home in 2019

Why You Should Sell Your Home in 2019

In 2019, consumers shouldn’t expect homebuyers to flood the market again and drive prices through the roof, but it’s also unlikely to be a crisis for home sellers.

The Guide to Understanding Your Home Value

The Guide to Understanding Your Home Value

Getting ready to sell your house, looking to refinance or buying a new homeowners insurance policy – these are just three of many reasons you’ll find yourself trying to figure out how much your home is worth.

Where the Most Listings Are Undergoing Price Drops

Where the Most Listings Are Undergoing Price Drops

Sellers are adjusting their strategies, especially in slowing, pricey markets with growing availability of homes for sale

It looks like this year could be a buyer's market for real estate

It looks like this year could be a buyer's market for real estate

The decline in asking prices comes as sellers face a new reality of higher interest rates and affordability worries among potential buyers.

These 8 Common Home Buys Are a Total Waste of Money

These 8 Common Home Buys Are a Total Waste of Money

The sheer cost of maintaining, decorating, or renovating a home is staggering. And if this is your first time in the home rodeo, you might find yourself agog over astonishingly high prices.

What kind of real estate appreciation will the fourth largest MSA see?

What kind of real estate appreciation will the fourth largest MSA see?

Today the Metroplex, formally known as the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, or MSA, is the largest in Texas, the largest in the South, and the fourth largest in the United States. 

Android Police: Google+ reveals shutdown timeline for consumers — and it's coming fast.

Android Police: Google+ reveals shutdown timeline for consumers — and it's coming fast.

Google announced its plans to sunset its Google+ social media network for consumers on a sour note in October.  Now, the company has detailed its shutdown timeline for the consumer version of Google+ — and it's not wasting any time.

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Dallas-Fort Worth crowned one of world's top 10 wealthiest places

Dallas-Fort Worth crowned one of world's top 10 wealthiest places

Believe it or not, the whole Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is home to more mini-millionaires than the entire population of Plano. 

Your DIY project didn't turn out quite right? You've got company.

Your DIY project didn't turn out quite right? You've got company.

The message here isn’t that you should avoid DIY. Rather you should take a sober look in advance at how your own technical and physical skills match up with what you have in mind. 

D-FW was the only major Texas home market with a dip in 2018 sales

D-FW was the only major Texas home market with a dip in 2018 sales

What is happening here in Dallas is what economists call a reversion to norm.

U.S. Pending Home Sales Declined in December for Third Month

U.S. Pending Home Sales Declined in December for Third Month

Buyers balked in December amid high prices, scarce supplies and uncertainty stemming from stock-market swings and the partial government shutdown.