For the people who really love their home, 10 characteristics that make them happy come up over and over again…
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Inspired Architecture Benefits Shelter in Place
Shelter in place has us focused on the characteristics of a home that makes us happy. What makes us happy in a home has not changed, but since we are spending more time in a home than ever, we are focused on what makes us happy in a home. Neighborhoods become more important during shelter…
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Future of Design—Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas
Interior designer Ken Fulk created a celestial study that maybe suggests Jupiter or Uranus is in the Fourth House propelling exuberance in design. Or maybe the fanned out tarot cards on the table show a destiny card indicating 2021 design with notes of green and Aegean Teal, the Benjamin Moore color of the year. Or…
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Neighborhood Gates for President Bush New Home Will Double Land Value on Street
Small changes in a neighborhood can often have great impact good and bad. Here gates double value.
MLS Remarks Can Diminish Value of Home For Sale
How an agent writes about a home in MLS Remarks impacts how well the home sells. I will be giving you an example of how generic MLS remarks might cost the seller a million dollars. If an agent can’t write about a home, an agent can’t talk about a home. If an agent can’t talk…
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Holy Grail of Homes Buyers Desire During the Pandemic
When sheltering at home people think about their homes differently. Nature, views, sunlight permeate their thoughts. Previously content homeowners become buyers during the pandemic. This is a specific examples of homes buyers desire that has all the characteristics of home people love , even more during a pandemic. Homebuyers Want Their Home to Look Over…
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The Hidden Truth of Bluelining Versus Redlining a Neighborhood
Redlining a neighborhood is very detrimental to the neighborhood, but it made homeownership for low-income groups more accessible. Bluelining a neighborhood is also very detrimental to the neighborhood, but it is devastating to low-income blacks and other lowincome groups that want to buy a home.
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AIA Dallas Tour of Homes – October 23-24, 2021
The AIA Dallas Tour of Homes is the most important and beneficial home tour in Dallas. This AIA Tour of Homes combines the best of the other home tours in Dallas. The other tours of homes in Dallas have served many purposes for nearly 50 years. Legacy of Dallas Home Tours The Swiss Avenue Mother’s…
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How Wealth and Luxury Impact Homes and the Real Estate Market
The pandemic has us thinking about wealth and luxury in a more profound way—more than superficial opulence and privilege, but as a guiding force in determining homes that make us happy living, working and playing. Wealth and luxury impact homes and the real estate market more significantly than builder or industry design trends. Those with…
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Pandemic Changes More Than Where We Work and Live
Pandemic Changes Congestion Until the pandemic, people’s choices were largely shaped by their workplaces and commutes. A 25-minute drive to work could become an hour and a half at rush hour. One might have to wait 60 minutes to get their 7:00 p.m. reserved table for a 90-minute dinner. A 15-minute quick trip to buy…
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Home Sweet Home? How Shelter in Place Changes the Way We Think About a Home
The recent challenges from the coronavirus force us to shelter at home and think of our home in whole new ways. Traditionally, when a buyer looks for a house to purchase, they are usually thinking about practical and financial criteria, like the square footage cost of the investment, how much house can they afford, are…
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Direction of Dallas and Urban Growth
Should the direction of Dallas urban growth continue to grow north? Does inserting low-income housing in North Dallas create an inclusive urban growth direction for Dallas? Does the direction of Dallas and its current goal of moving low-income wage earners closer to higher wage jobs in North Dallas increase or decrease wealth for low-income families? …
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Northern Hills: Why is it a Favorite Dallas Neighborhood and Crown Jewel of Original Land Grant?
In the 1920s, Northern Hills was described by the McNeny brothers much like I described the Northern Hills neighborhood in the 1986 book I wrote on the older neighborhoods in Dallas and in my 2020 video on Northern Hills. Regardless of where Northern Hills was in its evolution, in its infancy in the 1920s, re-emerging…
Inclusive Urban Growth: Dilute the Strong or Fortify the Weak Neighborhoods
As cities increasingly become enclaves for the rich and reservations for the poor, the debate rages on how to create inclusive urban growth to make cities less economically segregated and more vibrant. In Dallas, the Trinity River gives a geographic definition to the high income and low-income neighborhoods, dividing the historically prosperous northern half of…
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Tax On Aesthetics – Architect-Designed Homes
Who would think low-taxed Texas would have tax on aesthetics, curtailing the construction of architect-designed homes? There are many unintended consequences of high taxes such as impeding economic growth or high tax rates reducing tax revenue collected (i.e., New Jersey and Connecticut). Only now do I realize that Texas’ high property taxes impede the building…
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